theCrag/website — Issue #423: Missed 2nd description field in ACA merge
Author: scd
Created: 2011-12-08 07:29:53+00:00
State: open

OK, this is something I did not see, ACA has two 'Description' label fields:
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=route&route_id=2046

(I love it how we can just click on a link on thecrag route page to go to aca route page).

To be honest, with the months of work I put in this I did not notice duplication of the 'Description' label, so my algorithm just got the first instance.

How common is this in ACA? It's a little bit irratating actually because to fix it is either a manual cut and paste or reparsing the whole ACA and working out which descriptions need updating. It's possibly over a weeks work to make this happen, but it would have only been 20 minutes work if I caught it before the merge.

I'm in the middle of other stuff right now so it will be a while before I can automate anything. The long term plan is to have regular data merges to capture ACA updates, so climbers can add stuff to whichever database they want. When this is implemented the problem will just go away.

I'm bad ): but this merge was extremely complex and our first one. This is the second issue which I wish I caught before the merge.

Anyway, well spotted Will. I would certainly appreciate any advice on a way to resolve this issue, but it will have to be tempered with our internal resource issues.

Simon

On 8/12/2011 4:41 PM, Will Monks wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I notice the import of route info from ACA seems to have missed the main route description field. The general info and "Start" fields have come across, but for example refer to Clean Sweep on Taipan, where the following text hasn't come across: "Aid on the bolts and jug R to the arete as for Dance of Life. From there climb straight up the grey faint groove with fantastic sustained moves all the way to the horizontal breaks, then directly up the excellent blunt arete."
> cheers
> Will