Here are the ones I've found: Week 17 - all dates are 2004 - should be 2005 Besides that I've found three typos in the Venues field. They are: New Orlean (instead of New Orleans) Kansas Cit (instead of Kansas City) Tampa Ba (instead of Tampa Bay) You can search
for these, I'm not sure which weeks they were in. Please post here if you know of any other fixes required.
Also note that the UTC offset for all weeks and games is wrong before Oct 31 when the tiem changes. The offset to Eastern time should be -4, not -5 before that date, or at least how I understand UTC.
AS the seasin is about to start, what exactly needs to be done to get things working properly? Does replacing the .dll file take care of most of the issues? And is there an updated XML schedule file out there or should I just change the one I have?
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I'm having the time difference issue since my webserver is in a different timezone than myself. Is there anyway to quickly fix that? (SQL script?) Thanks.
Brad, There are a few UniversalTime problems with the code release, but the temporary fixes that were released by others should address these. I'm guessing that the problem that you're talking about is that you would prefer to see the dates localized for a
different time zone that the one that your server is in. This particular issue is a bit tricky to solve. There are two ways to approach it: 1) Always display dates/times in the user's time zone, or 2) Allow the admin to choose the timezone as part of the module
options. #1 is difficult because there is no way in server-side code to get the user's time zone. There are some tricky javascript things that can be done, but they would involve forcing a postback. There have been some discussions on the forums about adding
timezone info to a user's registration, but I haven't seen any concrete plan for doing that yet. #2 seems like the best choice, but gets complicated when it comes to daylight saving time. As far as I know, .Net can only determine daylight saving time for the
server, not for an arbitrary timezone choice. The greatest difficulty here is that many places in the world don't have daylight saving time, so the calculations to support it could be complicated. I don't think that either of these solutions are very good.
That's why I chose the simple way - use the server's timezone and daylight saving time info, but publish that so that user's could do their own manual calculations. I know that it isn't perfect either. I don't really have any other suggestions for this! Anyone
else? mike.
Mike (and others): I have made an update to the PickEm module and it is now available from my site at
http://www.ndpi.com/Default.aspx?tabid=46 What I did was add a data grid that allows in place editing of the scores for a given week. You still have to edit each game one at a time in the grid, but it
does cut down on the process quite a bit. Word of caution, I have not had the time to do extensive testing on these changes, so please test it before you deploy it to a live site! The download contains all of the source code from the original (including my
changes). The PickEm.txt file contains the complete list of the areas that I changed. I plan on making some more changes and will attempt to integrate some sort of method to consume a web service or import an XML file that contains the scores for a given week.
More to come on that area. I would also like to suggest to any others that are making changes that an attempt be made to coordinate our efforts. Your thoughts on this matter solicited. Happy DotNetNuking!
Thanks Dan, Back when I first built the module as the NFL Pool, I had full datagrid editing. However, I wasn't a big fan of that editing environment, so I went with the more traditional edit screen when I started PickEm. However, I can see where the individual
score updates could be a real pain. A web service of some type would be really nice but I'm not sure how that would work. I built another module a while back that would grab scores from ESPN for a number of sports and then display them in DNN...I wonder if
something like that could be used. I've resisted making this module too NFL-specific, but some nice enhancements like that would sure increase the simplicity. As for coordinating the efforts, I can start getting back into that. Work has kind of burned me out
on coding for the last 6 months or so, but I need to start getting back into the DNN community a bit more. After all, v3.0 is only weeks away and the excitement is mounting. Speaking of v3, I think some of the breaking changes with Context.User.Identity.Name
might affect this module. I'll check out your changes and try to consolidate them into one nice and simple codebase along with the other changes that have been posted. Thanks again. mike.
Mike, on the web service idea, I've been looking into using something from http://www.xmlteam.com. They are primarily providers of sports data in the SportsML format. They have also just rolled out a new "Pay per document" type system instead of a "subscription"
type system that I'm looking into. They also do more than just NFL. Once I have more information, I'll let you know. Dan
Wow - a buddy and I once looked at stats.com, but they're way too expensive for a small pool. On first glance, xmlteam.com looks pretty pricey as well but the sportsml format might solve the problem, eh? I like it - if an admin wants easy updates, they go with
the sportml format. If they don't want to pay the $$, they use the manual score entry. mike.
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