OMG, l33t trubbleshooting skills R us!

[trixtah]

See, 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

8. Where was your permanent home residence during Year 12?

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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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