Schedule ID changes with version 4.1

One more observation: if I don’t select any Schedule from the pulldown, I can’t add any data (or at least no media links), the fields are emptied when I store the game. So you have to select a Schedule to make any modifications.

Hi mallard66-
With regard your first comment, I have not noticed this, probably because I don’t mess with the shortcodes, but I will look into it. I believe plugins exist that let you make such global changes. Of course you can always do it through phpadmin. (But back up your DB before playing with SQL commands!!)

I do know there’s an issue with schedule ID versus schedule slug that I’m in the process of addressing. I just forgot to fix that before the release (my bad). BTW I have to regenerate the .pot file for translation as well, but I DID add many strings some missing from the previous .pot file and many new ones.

As for your second comment, correct. Every game must be tied to a schedule. I had to go back and create schedules on my dev site for legacy schedules but everything worked fine having added schedules to match the existing schedule IDs.

Stay tuned.
-Mark

OK, I’ve played around some and actually having two ID’s for a schedule is not too bad and I can live with it, as all the shortcodes support multiple ID’s. Only the widget doesn’t accept more than one ID, but it’s OK, since I only use it to show upcoming games. I only change an existing game to enter the results and media links. At that time, it’s already gone from the widget anyway.

Great. Comments:

1. I am reworking the Schedule screen. Turns out the ‘schedule slug’ that’s used is generated by the title, NOT the ID the admin enters. I’m going to fix that. Hope it doesn’t screw you up further, but it has to be done. I will release this fix as version 4.1.1.

2. Correct. The widget doesn’t accept more than 1 ID. That’s because one can just add the shortcode as a text widget. (Some themes get fussy about shortcodes in text widgets, but there are calls that can be added to the functions.php that will allow it to work.)

3. BTW, I have updated the default.pot with the missing strings from 4.0.1 and the new strings in 4.1. I back-fitted it into the 4.1 download, so you can download that to your local box, unzip, and grab that file if you wish.

-Mark

Hi Mark,

I’m noticing that when I select a schedule from the dropdown that now uses the schedule title, the option value of that drop down item is what is being used as the slug in the short codes. Since I am setting what is being displayed in on my scoreboard using the shortcodes, it matters to me that I know what my Unique ID is. Before the upgrade, I could set that Unique ID in the schedules module of the plugins. After the upgrade, it is now using a value that I don’t know how or where is being set and it is different from the Unique ID that I set within the Schedules module.

Now the only games that show up are the games that I have not edited to use the new dropdown menu format because those still identify with the old set up. Will you be updating so that the Unique ID is what is used by the schedule display short codes and not some seemingly arbitrary value?

Thanks for your help

-Julia

Hi Julia,
Thanks for finding this. There was a bug which caused Game Schedules to ignore the schedule ID field and use the slug. I though I fixed it, but it might still be unreleased. I will triple check. So, in the meantime, what should work is:
a. Go to the schedule screen and create a schedule with whatever title and ID 1 for what was previously your schedule 1. Update it.
b. Then edit the slug for that schedule and change it to 1. Update again.

You should be good to go.

Sorry about that. It will be fixed in the next release to use the ID field, not the slug. (In fact, I think I’ve removed the slug from the admin screen.)

Regards,

-Mark

Julia,
I just double-checked and this issue is fixed in the development tree. If you’d like you can grab it from www.remarpro.com. Please backup your site first, the trunk is not fully tested (but it is running just fine on dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com).

-Mark

Mark,

I just updated to 4.1 and now have the same issue with the schedule Id. I just wanted to updated the game results for a few games that were played the last week or so. I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHY THE GAME RESULTS WAS NOT SHOWING IN MY SCHEDULE. I then noticed that the select schedule was not showing and when I click on the drop down list and click on the Varsity the game I was editing disappeared from the schedule on the site even though it is in the edit game area. I decided to check the plugin support area and find that there is an issue with schedule id.

I have four schedules with individual IDs. I do not understand what you mean by “the slug”. Can you try and explain it in layman terms as to how I fix this issue short of recreating the schedules.

Hi memanow,
Sure. In your admin dashboard, go to Game Schedules -> Schedules -> Edit Schedule. It doesn’t matter which one you edit. You will see Permalink field just below the title. That’s the slug. You will also see a Unique Schedule ID field. The intent was that the Unique Schedule ID field identifies a schedule in the shortcode (and it will be used to identify a schedule in the upcoming release). But unfortunately in this release it is the Permalink that identifies the schedule in the shortcode (damn programmers!), so I recommend you prepare for the next release by making them the same for now.

-Mark

Hi Mark,

with version 4.1.1, everything works again. I updated all schedules and now everything matches up.

Thanks for the quick fix!

I think you can mark this one as resolved.

-mallard66

Super. You are welcome.

-Mark