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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Vermillion on May 19, 2000, 07:12:00 PM
Hiyas Guys and Gals

Jokers Low has now reach the beta testing stage for the Online Scenario Signup Page. Our thanks goes out to Exile who has put many hours into working on this system, and hosting it from his site. Thanks Exile !!

Now we need all you players to come help us test it out, and see if there are any bugs.

Go to the link below, and fill out the form completely just as if you were signing up for the Scenario. If anything seems strange or wrong, please post it here in this thread.

This is a test. This is only a test, you are not actually signing up for Africa Corps.    (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Ok lets see if you can break it!

 http://www.mikeangel.com/afrikacorps/ (http://www.mikeangel.com/afrikacorps/)

Thanks Everyone !!

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"


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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Rocket on May 19, 2000, 07:28:00 PM
w000h000~
Made it in   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Now will it email me the info ?

Also can a squad sign everyone up to maintain that all members get the same flight assignment?

Looks good bro!
S!
Rocket

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Westy on May 19, 2000, 07:39:00 PM

 It ran flawlessly!  Very nice work.

 -Westy
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Kieren on May 19, 2000, 08:18:00 PM
It said I was confirmed... will check mail in a bit to see for sure...   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Exile on May 19, 2000, 08:42:00 PM
It's not setup to send an email confirmation. Did you guys want one??

Let me know.

Ex .......................
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Rocket on May 19, 2000, 08:55:00 PM
I saw the confirmation at the top .. sweet. but would it be hard to add email confirmation?  
That way when an event comes up a month later I can just check my email to be sure what I signed up for?

S!
Rocket
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Exile on May 19, 2000, 08:59:00 PM
All I've got to send in the email is the info I displayed at the end of a successful signup. Let Verm know about any other info you would like and I'll add that to the auto-reply.
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Cobra on May 19, 2000, 11:02:00 PM
Worked like a charm

Cobra
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Azrael on May 19, 2000, 11:20:00 PM
Works good.

Az
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Fury on May 20, 2000, 05:39:00 AM
Tested:

Signed up for the event.  Got my first choice, and the number of 202's went down by one after confirmation.

Tried to sign up a second time, got a duplicate email address.

Only entered one choice of planes, got generic error message about filling in all the fields.

Tried to sign up with bogus email and same handle, got error message "Handle already in use" (or something like that).

Used bogus email and handles to bring 54' 202's to "Full".  54' did not show up on choices after Full.

Can't think of much else to test.  Thanks for all the work!

Fury
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Entered
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Gunthr on May 20, 2000, 07:16:00 AM
No probs...
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Duckwing6 on May 20, 2000, 07:18:00 AM
Worked PERFECT ! Great JOB

One thing .. there should be a return button to the main page of the event

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Vermillion on May 20, 2000, 09:15:00 AM
Come on everybody  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) We really need you to pound the hell outta this thing.

If we don't test this thing fully, and then it breaks during the real signups, I don't want to hear any complaints if you don't get your favorite ride  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Rocket, signups will be conducted on a first come first serve basis. So if a squad definitely wants to fly together, I would reccommend selecting a "flight" that is not the most popular (these tend to literally fill up in minutes in most scenarios, like 2 or 3 minutes tops), and making sure that the squad members either all try to signup as soon as the form opens, or have a designated squad member sign others up.

Exile, can we enlarge the text at the top that tells us the results of our application? And yes email confirmation would be nice, if the server can handle that application and the loads it causes. Nice work  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Everything works perfectly that I can see.



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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Exile on May 20, 2000, 10:07:00 AM
I've got the auto-reply in there now. Is there any additional info you want to add to the email?

What is the url for the return link to the main site?

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Heater on May 20, 2000, 10:28:00 AM
Worked perfect

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Vermillion on May 20, 2000, 10:28:00 AM
Exile I would suggest something like the following.

You might also add a statement on the "successful" response on the website for the registrant to check their email address for accuracy, since if its wrong no one will be able to contact them with more information.

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Congratulations !! You have succesfully signed up for the Afrika Corp Scenario, for Aces High.

You are confirmed for the following slot:
*** Allied
*** Malta
*** RAF No. 249 Sqdn.
*** Spitfire Mk V's (Fighter-Bomber)

You entered the following personal information:

Name: Vermillion
Handle: Verm
E-Mail: verms-email@his-isp.net

Please make sure this information is correct. If anything is incorrect, or you wish to withdraw your registration for any reason, please contact the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Offical immediately at the following email:

*add email address later*

Thank You for signing up, And we hope you enjoy the Scenario !


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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: maik on May 20, 2000, 10:58:00 AM
worked real good.

Answer came fast:

You are confirmed for the following slot:
Axis
Fliegerkorps II
II / JG 2 "Richtofen"
Fw190A4's
 
Maik
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Exile on May 20, 2000, 12:18:00 PM
Verm ... I threw this one together pretty fast. If you want to format it differently, let me know.
 http://www.mikeangel.com/afrikacorps/list_pilots.php (http://www.mikeangel.com/afrikacorps/list_pilots.php)
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Exile on May 20, 2000, 12:36:00 PM
I'm curious how Fury got "Furytest" in there 4 times.
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Ogre on May 20, 2000, 01:06:00 PM
I tried a few things to break it, but couldn't.

Only comment I have is that you make the "error" messages (ex. input all fields, etc) a bit more prominant (larger font, blinking, whatever) for those of us who go through life in a bit of a daze   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

P.S. My information was updated correctly in the order of battle, and the email reached me correctly with the correct information.

-Ogre

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Duckwing6 on May 21, 2000, 04:46:00 AM
Everything correct exile .. GREAT JOB !!
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: funked on May 21, 2000, 07:43:00 AM
NM I RTFM now.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Fury on May 21, 2000, 08:21:00 AM
 
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Originally posted by Exile:
I'm curious how Fury got "Furytest" in there 4 times.

When I was signing up with different handles I went from "Furytest1" to "Furytest5" (ok maybe not 5 but you get the drift).  I was getting the "duplicate handle" error so I was changing handles/emails to bring the 54' to "FULL".  Maybe there is a limit to the number of characters in the handle?  I was typing in 9 characters, if 8 is the max (I don't remember the AH limit) then maybe an edit on the handle?

Fury
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Exile on May 21, 2000, 08:33:00 AM
Ahhh  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

That's it. I didn't put a max field length on the handle field.

Thanks
Title: Come help us test the Jokers Low Scenario SignUp Form !!
Post by: Ghosth on May 21, 2000, 11:23:00 PM
Looking great here, nice work guys!

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