Re: By The Year Challenge GC70554 Checker request

We need to have a checker for our challenge. It's easiest to paste the part of the description to tell you what we need.
find a cache for every year you have been geocaching which must contain the year either numerical or spelled out in the title.
Our qualifiers listed are :
GC32Z4V 2011 Pupfish

GC3AJWA PurVida 2012

GC459RD Sky Wonders #1 2013

GC5B2WB Potters 2 Present: Int'l Geocaching Day 2014

GC 690Y6 RIP 2015

GC6YXE1 8 Minutes Til 2017

Sorry, this is not acceptable under the new guidelines

Please read http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=206#criteria
10. Source of Criteria - Not Acceptable
These listing elements: cache titles, cache owner, GC Codes, publishing Reviewer or listing text. (new 2016)

Thanks, I wondered. I will change it to read as the following:
To qualify for this cache you must have found a cache placed in every year you have been geocaching.
We have been geocaching since 2011 and our qualifiers are:

GC32Z4V 2011 Pupfish

GC3AJWA PurVida 2012

GC459RD Sky Wonders #1 2013

GC5B2WB Potters 2 Present: Int'l Geocaching Day 2014

GC 690Y6 RIP 2015

GC6YXE1 8 Minutes Til 2017

There is no script for this yet. I'll place this question under "New script required" so a script writer can look at this question.

Please check out if this checker is acceptable. It is based on a Jasmer checker and reports all months but can be configured for once per year.

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC70554/24995

Oops, I had to extend an existing script. Thank GentlePurpleRain for the heavy lifting.

Feedback appreciated.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2017 09:42PM by sloth96. (view changes)

That looks like it will work fine if we fine tune it to only 1 cache needed per year. That should be a real easy challenge. Thanks Anne

It should already be tuned. It just prints out more than is needed. I was having trouble finding examples of folks who have less than all 12 months.

Since we are only requiring one per year if they are missing a month will that fail the checker?

Do I need to change the description to read one for each month since you (they) started, in essence a jasmer since they have been caching.

Also how do I put a link to the checker on the cache page?

If they are missing a month it is not supposed to fail them. This is based on the documentation and a quuck read of the code. I do not have a test case which shows this and will be happy to have one. We accept bug reports.

I don't think that you need to change the page description. I think the logs will be unnecessarily long. It is supposed to require only one per year. The tag has a per year one tag that according to original script is supposed to handle it.

As for including the link. There is a link button that appears when you load the checker. It gives you three choices of code to cut and paste into your cache page.

Maybe you can adapt this script http://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=840

This only shows a find hidden per year

Before I finalize the page it probably would be good if you could test it, thanks

Yep it is broken. I fixed the one a year problem and that uncovered another bug on some users. Sorry about the false hopes. I shoukd get some time soon to debug.

Thank you vogel bird. That other script was an easier edit.

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC70554/25094

Feedback appreciated.

Thanks, looks great! Appreciate all your hard work!

We just ran the checked against a local cacher named ABQ34. The checker said that ABQ34 does not qualify.
We're not sure why he does not qualify.
Here are the results of the checker for ABQ34:
2008-01-16 2008-03-02 GC18N4G Open Space Visitor Center
2009-01-06 2009-01-08 GC1KHR2 Pole Position #36
2010-01-01 2010-01-10 GC22HPD NEW DECADE 2010
2011-01-04 2011-01-07 GC2M28J Rye and Mica
2012-01-06 2012-01-06 GC39G1P Centennial at Sunrise and later...
2013-02-02 2013-02-16 GC45B07 Challenge-Diverse foods
2014-04-13 2012-07-30 GC3BXMV fox-40
2015-01-06 2015-01-06 GC5FJPQ Happy Birthday New Mexico
2016-01-06 2016-01-06 GC654XB Happy Birthday New Mexico
2017-01-17 2017-01-17 GC6YERD Whiskey for my Men Beer for my Horses 26

Also, were not sure which column is placed date.

Also, it would be helpful if each column had a column header especially "Placed Date".

Thanks

First column is placed date.

I do not understand the reason as well.

Should be fixed now.

Thanks for the detailed report. It made it easy to debug.

Thanks so much! I submitted the cache for review.