I can't figure out how to "discard but keep" a story... I was thinking reject was the answer, but I'm not so sure since when I reject it, the story still sits in my current column with a restart button visible.
Sometimes I go down the wrong track, create a Story (feature) that I realize later I don't need or want. However, I don't want to trash it - I'd like to keep it for future reference, but I want it to go away somewhere - not sit in my current column forever.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Pivotal Support explains just exactly why nobody posted an answer...
Short Answer:
not possible
Long Answer (from Pivotal Support):
Unfortunately there's not a way to archive stories in Tracker and as you've discovered, the reject button doesn't remove stories from
Current.
In these cases we recommend creating a label describing the situation
(“on-hold”, “not reproducible”, won't fix", etc.) to apply to such
stories, and then move the story to the bottom of the Icebox along
with a concise comment explaining the decision (you must "unstart" the
story before it can be moved to the Icebox). You can also use a
release marker in the icebox to separate stories like this from
others, as in the attached screenshot.
Here is a post by Pivotal themselves that explains what they do with such stories.
https://twitter.com/pivotaltracker/status/337950414244810753
Basically, they mark as duplicate, won't fix, won't implement, etc. After, they set the story points to 0. Then they accept the story so it is still able to be searched on their project. The story points as 0 is important so that accepting the story doesn't increase your velocity for work that essentially wasn't done.
The post is a little old (3 years at time of writing, with 1 year old update), but I haven't found a better way thus far.
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I am trying to reduce the cooldown on the hearthstone and inscription research spell-like effects. I have identified the hearthstone item template and imported the hearthstone spell into spell_dbc. I have set the spell category cooldown to 1 second, but I am experiencing a strange issue. On use, the hearthstone is set to a 30-minute cooldown and not useable during this cooldown, but on logging out and logging back in, the correct cooldown is displayed and the item is useable once the cooldown has expired. I suspect that the client is tracking the cooldown of the hearthstone independently of the server. But I have no clue where to begin looking to fix this. Has anybody successfully made a change to spell cooldowns, and would you be willing to point me in the right direction?
Thank you!
Not a solution to your problem, but I'm pretty sure that what you are experiencing is actually an intended behavior to discourage hacking.
I think what is really going on is your login credentials are being used to create a secret that is then passed into the rest of their program, which is then used as a reference point for debugging.
Because they know the intended behavior of their own game, they can check to see if the results of arguments sent from your machine are within expected parameters.
And because your modifications fall outside of those parameters, what the developers decided to do was to change the cooldown to something sufficiently annoying to detect who keeps on manually logging out and logging back in again.
I studied programming in college, and I'm telling you that if you know enough to change the cooldowns locally, you should try doing something more productive. Either find another game to play at the same time, or just do something completely different from gaming altogether.
Hope somebody double checks what I have said here for accuracy, because I am curious to know if I am correct about my assessment.
The solution is to delete the client cache.
When I make multiple resumes attempt to a single course the cmi.core.score.raw score is not updated properly.
Suppose there are 5 sections in the course. If the user successfully completes the 2 sections, then exits the score is proper (say 30). While the user resumes the course, it starts with the proper position and even if the user correctly answers all the question correctly, the score is not updating to 100 ( it saves as 70-80 ). It shows the result as failed which is wrong since the user has answered all the questions correctly.
I thought it may be due to the suspend_data max limit posed by SCORM 1.2, but the course resumes at the correct location every time. So I am confused about what may be causing this behavior?
I also tried the same course in scormcloud, there also the same issue persists.
Are there any settings which we need to take care while creating the SCORM 1.2 package which may have caused this issue?
Has anyone faced this issue previously? I googled and couldn't find the appropriate answer. Any help would be appreciated.
Update: I'm attaching the scromcloud launch history image which will clearly show the score value at launch start and end.
The SCO is typically responsible for conducting the "math" portion since it maintains the cmi.core.score section of the student attempt.
You're correct to assume something with the suspend data may not be giving the SCO's capability of determining a history of correct/incorrect but deeper analysis would be required within the logic of the SCO to find out if it fully supported being put back in a position it left off in.
SCORM 1.2 was mostly a 'optional' standard in regards to the support of the Student Attempt. And even though the standard often states there are character limits it typically was optionally enforced by the LMS.
So something to possibly evaluate whats going on within the SCO while using it on a LMS would be to try out the bookmarklet on https://cybercussion.com or see if you can locate the deeper logs on SCORM cloud which show the actual data being stored. Its always possible the suspend data is obfuscated but since you said SCORM 1.2 I'm going to say doubtful. It may be semi-human readable.
Fail that we'd need to dig into the SCO code base to determine how it "puts itself back" after obtaining the suspend data. To do that I'd search the code base for "cmi.suspend_data" to maybe help locate it.
How's it going?
I've found a lot of more detailed answers relating to specific problems relating to RSS feeds, but I can't really figure out how you USE one, basically.
Could someone explain?
I see the RSS feed icon at the top of a lot of Wordpress sites, including my own, but when I click it, it just seems to be a long XML file. I don't know what to do with it, or even why it would be there.
How do you use this? Are you meant to hit it with an API request, or is there a particular kind of software that you use?
Cheers
Before telling you what RSS, let me describe you a common problem that many people have.
Say there is a bunch of sites that you really like and it's sort of a
daily routine for you to go thru them. They may be a news site, your
friend's blog, but also craigslist bcause you're currently looking for
a new house and maybe a weather site to know how late you should stay
at work :)
The first thing you do when you get to work, is open your web browser
and these sites in new tabs. It's not particularly cumbersome because
there are just 4 sites. But think about it: maybe there is a new blog
that you start to like and ho, these cartoons are really funny. Maybe
there is also a bit of financial info that you're interested in and
the pictures that your brother is posting to Flickr every couple day:
they just had a new baby! Also, as you're trying to buy a house, you'd
love a little raise and you've figured that your boss really likes it
when you tell her that you've read about your company in the news or
when you tell her about a new competing product... There is also
StackOverflow. You're desperately trying to get this "expert" badge
and boost up your reputation: this may help with your boss too or even
when you're looking for a new job.
Opening all these tabs is starting to take a toll and you keep
forgetting an important one. You're also slowly getting tired of the
different reading experience that all these sites have: small fonts,
large fonts, ads all over...etc. Now you have a problem.
Imagine there is a tool that does the following: you can tell it what sites you care about, and then, this tool will look up the new stuff for you. It will show everything in a nice looking format. It should also help you identify what's really worth seeing ASAP or maybe have some kind of "serendipity" mode that you can go into and find interesting stuff that you would have missed otherwise. The tool will obviously send you to the original sites should you need more info about any particular story or classified...
This tool exists. It's usually called a Reader, mostly because it lets your read more things online. Often times you'll see them called "RSS reader", because RSS is what they use to get the information from all these sites. RSS is the pipe. You as a user should probably not know about it, but that's what the readers depend on. In an ideal world, when you're on site you like, you should just hit "follow" on a button like this one and then you'd be redirected to your reader of choice. Later when new content is added, you'll get it straight in your reader.
To get a bit into more technical details, RSS (like Atom) is an XML flavor. It's a collection (mostly reverse chronological) of entries. Entries have at least a title and a link to the actual story. They should also include a unique identifier and could have other elements like a description, an image, tags, author information... etc.
RSS is great because it's content agnostic. It can be used to represent a lot of different things (as described in the little story) and decouples the publishing platform from the subscribing platform: they don't even know the other one exists. RSS is their lingua-franca.
I wrote a blog post about this very question not long ago. Here's the link if you're interested in reading my personal interpretation. https://www.rss.com/whatisrss
An XML file is all the content of a page, with no markup. The XML represents the data in its rawest, most descriptive form. Many readers can interpret XML sources from a variety of places, and format all of the data in its own unique way.
For some reason we still don't have this feature yet. We can make it work using zip codes, but how about City or State? The Views set of Modules are great and I would love to see Proximity Search options expanded. There are requests for this in the Drupal forums: http://drupal.org/node/489904 but that thread has been stagnant for months. The "fix" is inconsistent and no longer works on my end, using Views and Location series modules. Does anyone know a workaround to this issue? The custom module shown in Drupal forum worked at some point with limitations, but now its no longer displaying any search results. Trying to hit this from any angle -- have the US zipcodes in MySQL database for the former configuration; have Apache SOLR ready to go; even got Spatial SOLR ready to go if that ever picks up. Any help much appreciated.
I think one of the problems is city names are not necessarily unique. (zips are)
You could have the same city in different states.
For states, it's even less reliable because their area can vary a great deal and proximity search around a state would be very unreliable for states which don't have circular shapes.
So the module should have an extra step showing "did you mean.." results in case there are more returned (if possible).
I don't believe there is a workaround, it will require some coding to implement this in views.
I would start in location.views.inc around line #493, adapting the logic for the current zipcode handler. Look for the location_latlon_rough function in location.inc.
May be you have to try geoname module im not sure you should try
http://geonames.edesign.no/node/13
Give a try
Thanks,
Gobi :)
Beside IP blocking and probably using a cookie (if the user changes the IP but doesn't remove the cookie, the new IP is added to the banned list, so the IP has to be changed and the cookie has to be removed together to access the site), is there any tricks one can use to block an annoying user from a website, I know that nothing will work with a savvy user but I'm trying to make it harder for the less savvy ones, any suggestions?
Edit: I already have registration in my website, the point is that this is useless to stop determined users (they can simply create other accounts).
#rifferte,
Actually I'm already building a moderation section where moderators can remove posts and suspend members, also members can report abuse and spam, I'm not trying to make this impossible, simply there's no way to do this, I'm just trying to get rid of the less savvy ones (the majority), and not forever, I'm planning to block them for a certain period of time (probably a couple of days or something like that).
Any overt form of censure on an existing user could lead to the forum equivalent of an arms race. One school of thought pushed on the SO podcasts is to flag the offending user and remove their posts from normal view, but include it when they (the bad user) are looking at the site. That way, they think the community is ignoring them and it makes flaming less fun. If the site isn't trying to stop them but their efforts at flaming are fruitless, they will likely just walk away.
See also this blog by Jeff
One of the best approaches I've ever encountered is the "Tachy goes to Coventry" feature in vBulletin. Adding a user to this list places them on a global ignore list that applies to everyone, except themselves.
So, they continue posting and everything appears normal from their perspective, yet their posts don't disrupt other users. Amazingly, these users rarely seem to figure out what's going on, they're so satisfied with the havoc they think they're wreaking undeterred.
Disruptive users tend to fizzle out very quickly when everyone's ignoring them. Once they give up, you can bulk delete all of their content in one pass that takes relatively little administrative effort.
What sometimes seems to help is to:
Make sure that accounts need to be "mature" before they may post.
A reputation system not unlike stack overflow (Account gone = reputation gone) :)
Use authentication providers like OpenID. It is more work to create multiple accounts that way
The simple fact of the matter is: If someone can do everything after creating an account, the account does not have any extra value. Once an account has some extra value (i.e. someone needs to put some good work in an account to get more privileges) you'll see that abusers will probably go to other websites.
I believe you will be in a constant cat and mouse game if the user has that much time to burn.
Your best bet will be to involve some human element to the site's registration process, to properly research any particular users. Not elegant, but without knowing more about your site there isn't too much more one can say.
Now that the question has been further refined with extra information, I'd like to change my answer.
Problem users in forums site exist because other users feed them.
How about trying an approach where if you identify a problem user, then you silently hide their posts from your site from OTHER users, but not the problem user. The theory is, that the problem user 'thinks' that their post made it through, but since it's actually hidden from all other users, nobody will reply to the problem user, and with any luck, they'll go elsewhere where they're getting feedback.
Can you trust your "good" user base to flag bad/annoying users?
Something like craigslist: if a user is flagged as annoying by a few users, their account is temporarily unable to post for a period of time. If this happens a few times, their account is suspended?
Just a thought.