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Postby draglist » Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:57 pm

it moves like a glacier sometimes but nothing ever really stops at draglist.com. There are several new things going on that I wanted to share with our true inside crew...

New draglist front page... moving along nicely. Here is a link to the working mule... MUCH more do to here... http://draglist.leecreate.wpengine.com/

We are making lots of changes to the actual drag lists... here is the work order that Brian Clark is working on now...

BILL'S LIST

1. Where Class = A/XS, change CATEGORY to AFUELFC.
***DONE

2. Where Aspriation = Injected and Category = FUELFC, change Category to AFUELFC.
***DONE

3. Where Class = Top Fuel Bike, change Aspiration to Injected.
***DONE

4. Where Class = Top Sportsman, change Category to SPORTSMAN and Type to HN
***DONE

5. It takes two tries to delete a photo using the check box. The first time you do it, the photo remains. If you edit the entry again and click the box, the photo is deleted.

6. The Primary Car field goes to zero after a public side edit or add. Need to make that default to 1 or whatver it was set to.

7. Primary Car field needs to figure in the searches. It should come before Entry on the searches.

8. Detailed search page needs to have defaults of blank 'sort' and 'direction,' and 'exact' search on the top as a default.

9. When cloning, include photographer name, photog email, and photog website. And clear all performance info (ET, MPH, EMET, EMMPH, TFET, TFMPH).

10. I would like to merge ownfname with ownlname, and ccfname with cclname fields... how hard would this be? (not only concatenating those fields but also changing the searches, etc.)

11. Need to replace submitter name and submitter email with current person during a cloning on both public and admin sides.

12. Add a video link to each entry. After Racer Site link.

13. Add a Google Search link that will look for the driver name plus year of competition plus the class.

*** MAYBE DO AN IMAGE SEARCH TOO? That would take care of number 22 below?

14. Remove the "a" before the Aspiration on the display (public and admin).

15. Add ability to add new Aspiration and Fuel on the admin side.

16. Need to edit LIC numbers and finishes as follows:

If LIC < 100
Copy LIC to FINISH
Clear LIC
Endif

*** Still need the above done. BUT, I do not need the PERM fix shown below... we manually edited all the entries with PERM in the notes.

Also, before we created the FINISH field, we used to put the finish in the LIC number field and then in the NOTES, we would capture the LIC number as follows "nnnn perm." (this indicates the driver's permanent number). Is it possible for you to find this string in the NOTES field and replace the LIC field with it? and then clear the string in the NOTES field?

For instance, if the NOTES contined the string "5234 perm." Could you enter 5234 into the LIC field and the clear the string "5234 perm." from the NOTES?

17. Put browser title into any search results based on category name and name of pulldowns... for instance, "Draglist.com Pro Stock Quickest Quarter Mile Elapsed Times 1988 to 2012"

18. Make name searches "like" instead of "exact"? (Where if we are one character off, it does not return a not found but returns the closest matches FIRST and then some possibles... names only... no other fields).

These next several are more involved than the others, and are related... They involve rankings for slower cars...

19. Do we still have the code in there that used to determine the MINET (and MINEMET and MINTFET) by taking the AVGET minus the RECET and then adding that to the AVGET? [Maybe this is called LOWET instead of MINET?]

This is the code that we replaced by adding .50 to the AVGET to make the MINET.

What I would like to do is combine the two pieces of code... I would like to use the original code described above BUT... with a .50 minimum.

So the MINET would never be LESS than .50 plus the AVGET, but could be MORE than .50 plus the AVGET.

We probably need to talk about this one on the phone...

*** Note that on this one, we will have to keep an eye on the LOWET and LOWMPH to ensure they do not get slower in subsequent years...

*** ALso, need to do this on the eighth mile and 1000 foot distances, too. But they will not be .50 as the minimum but what they currently are (I think .42 and .33? I we can verify)... Is this clear?

20. I want to update the ETRANK, MPHRANK, EMETRANK, EMMPHRANK, TFETRANK, and TFMPHRANK settings for slower cars.

Right now, if a car is slower than the MINET, MINMPH, MINEMET, MINEMMPH, MINTFET, or MINTFMPH, the rating for that car is a zero.

I would like to see if we can do the following:

If the ET is slower than the MINET, then ETRANK = MINET/ET

IF the MPH is slower than MINMPH, then MPHRANK = MPH/MINMPH

If the EMET is slower than the MINEMET, then EMETRANK = EMMINET/EMET

IF the EMMPH is slower than MINEMMPH, then EMMPHRANK = EMMPH/MINEMMPH

If the TFET is slower than the MINTFET, then TFETRANK = MINTFET/TFET

IF the TFMPH is slower than MINTFMPH, then TFMPHRANK = TFMPH/TFMINMPH

I'm not sure I have all the field names right...

For these remaining... let me know what you think about them...

21. (Future). Add links in certain areas to how the changes are calculated (near the ranking, a question mark that will go to how it works).

*** DONT NEED THIS YET -- I wonder if instead we could add an image search next to the Google Search noted above?

22. (Future). Can we add multiple photos to each entry? Perhaps show them in a lower band.

*** DONT NEED THIS YET

23. (Future). Make admin ET rank match the public ET rank? Not really that worried about this...

*** DONT NEED THIS YET (in fact, it's sort of cool to see the difference)
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Re: Latest Draglist Updates

Postby WildcatOne » Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:42 am

Man...that is incredible! I always thought DragList was the most streamlined and smooth-running site...it's in a class by itself. But this will transform it into a touchstone. What can I say...great work, guys! WC1
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Re: Latest Draglist Updates

Postby draglist » Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:51 pm

Thanks, John. A lot of these things are in place. Still a few to do.

One of the coolest things is that there is now a Google search link embedded on each of the 90 thousand plus entries.

So in addition to all the info we have on that car and driver for that year, you can also click the link to see additional info on the car... bp
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Re: Latest Draglist Updates

Postby bandit » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:13 pm

I have to get some of my new drag racing friends out here to check it out!!
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Re: Latest Draglist Updates

Postby draglist » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:41 pm

Yes! Please do... also, do I detect some new additions on your profile pic? Cool! bp
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Re: Latest Draglist Updates

Postby draglist » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:05 am

Hi Wheelz. I don't understand what you are saying. Can you try again?

You are losing me on the first sentence. bp
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Re: Latest Draglist Updates

Postby draglist » Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:18 am

Thanks. I look foreword to ERADICATING this... but should have no connection to the new changes... bp
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