Ethics questions can now be asked as a required field for each project.
To activate this feature navigate to Configuration >> Configuration Variables >> Participant Registration
and change “Ask if the project requires human and/or animal participants” to “Yes”.
All projects with human and/or animal participants can be selected using the Report Editor.
Under “Input Received Signature Forms” a button called “Receive All” was created.
Clicking this button will cause the program to assign project numbers and mark the
signature page as received for all students who have completed the registration process.
Confirmation emails are sent to each student that had their signature page marked as received.
"Remove Old Judge Data" and "Remove Old Emergency Contact/Parent Data" was added to
"Database Backup/Restore". These permanently remove all information from the database
about these two respective groups. This means that all historical data will be lost but
the most recent information about judges and emergency contacts remains. Cleaning the database
this way dramatically improves the speed of the user editor. Make sure the database has been
backed up before trying these.
The judge's name now appears on the cancellation popup window when deleting an individual judge.
Increase the number of sorting and grouping fiels in the Reports Editor
Fix display list when emailing schools
Add "Judge -- Other Expertise" to Reports Editor
Add "Award -- Script Order" to allow student reports to be sorted the same way they appear on the "Award Ceremony Script"
A flag in the configuration variables under Particpant Registration
must be set to enable this.
Project types are Experiment, Innovation, and Study
Comment text box has been added to the project editor. This is only seen by
fair administrators and not by the student. Information related to project
safety can be flagged here. If text is present in this box, a flag appears
in the Registration Management list.
Project summaries longer than one page now print out properly. Blank pages
are still sometimes printed after long sumaries.
Choose Email Recipients query has been modified so that the most recent
email address for judges is now used.
Reports Editor has been changed so that cheques can be written for
individual students as well as one cheque per project. New report
data (split) has been added to make this work.
the project number field if blank).
- Add a new number option 'X', which counts among ALL projects, not just the
ones in the same division/cat.
- Add a padding argument to N or X (N0...N9) defaults to 2 for N, and 3 for X.
- Adds 3 columns to the project table:
- projectsort: for storing the expanded text
- projectnumber_seq: for storing the N or X number for projects
- projectsort_seq: for storing the N or X number for the sort order
- Add a new config option for sorting, and expand the text for the
projectnumber.
- Change the default sorting for reports and project lists to use the
projectsort category.
- Remove the gvrsf_tn option from the database, it's not needed now.
- Hardcode add a special award to the top of the list "I do not wish to
nominate for any special awards". Allow the
project_specialawards_link.award_awards_id field to become NULL, and set it
to NULL if the student selects this award.
- Fix the display of the award status based on whether the student has or has
not specified that they do not wish to nominate for special awards.
- Add an option to the project editor to regenerate the project number
- Fix a bug in the project number generation. Include YEAR in the project
number check (and in the number generation) so we don't find a project from
last year (that already has a number), and decide not to generate one for a
project from this year. The $checkNumQuery was returning 2 rows.. one from
2006, one from 2007. Two projects from different years had the same
registrations.num (665983) in my test.. about 10% of the projects at the VDSF
collided with numbers from previous years.
