OMG, l33t trubbleshooting skills R us!
Dec. 1st, 2008 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahSee, there's a reason I'm a techie - I figured out the problem that I was having with my course enrolment yesterday.
One of the questions was
Now, I fairly naturally stuck in "NZ" - the above is the entirely of the question. There was no cute dropdown, nor specification to enter an Australian postal code. If you look at the HTML for the input box name, it is "p_commencing_location". Aha! And the max_size for the field was 5 characters. So I nabbed the 4-digit code for NZ that had popped up after an earlier dropdown selection, and stuck that in, and OMG, it worked. It would have been really tough shit if my permanent home residence in Year 12 had been a different country to my final year of school, which is not necessarily the same in NZ (we go up to 7th Form, which is Year 13).
I'll now drop their webmaster a note advising them of the trouble with the form. Student Records - or whatever they're called - haven't got back to me yet after my messaging them yesterday.
One of the questions was
| 8. Where was your permanent home residence during Year 12? | <input ... > |
Now, I fairly naturally stuck in "NZ" - the above is the entirely of the question. There was no cute dropdown, nor specification to enter an Australian postal code. If you look at the HTML for the input box name, it is "p_commencing_location". Aha! And the max_size for the field was 5 characters. So I nabbed the 4-digit code for NZ that had popped up after an earlier dropdown selection, and stuck that in, and OMG, it worked. It would have been really tough shit if my permanent home residence in Year 12 had been a different country to my final year of school, which is not necessarily the same in NZ (we go up to 7th Form, which is Year 13).
I'll now drop their webmaster a note advising them of the trouble with the form. Student Records - or whatever they're called - haven't got back to me yet after my messaging them yesterday.
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Date: 2008-12-01 11:52 am (UTC)That is all.
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Date: 2008-12-01 12:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-12-02 02:33 am (UTC)Just checked with my advisor/gossip-monger/co-worker. As a previous UC student he had good experiences with the web based admin. I told him he was standard issue, so of course he would be good.
Seems like the software used locationID number instead of alias, but should have had a drop down, or at least a hint of the expected input.
We have tenders out now for new student admin system. I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.