Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged discover

TB discovern and after 500 it stops?

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 06:24:23 +0000

I was able to have a look at a huge TB collection at an event recently and added over 600 TB codes to discover them - after 500 successful discoveries the tool stopped and hasn't continued for hours now. What could be the problem?

I am a Project-GC Premium Member.

Feature Request: Discover Tool remember last log date

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:30:55 +0000

I discover trackables with the correct date, for example when I have seen them at events.

When I visit geocaching.com/track/ discover-page, the form remembers the last discover date. This way I can log the TBs of the event from December 10th individually, then those from the event on December 14th and then those from yesterday on December 19th.

Project-GC's Discover Tool always shows the current date in the form (today December 20). Here I would like a possibility (checkbox) for "use the last log date".

I especially like to log coins by owner individually - because some coin collections are very expensive and deserve an individual log.
E.g. "Thanks Peter for showing your coins today", "Thanks Tom for showing your new Giga Berlin Coins" and in another discover job "Thanks Melli for showing your fine collection". Thus I've several jobs with multiple tracking codes and different log texts to run.
Unfortunately I sometimes used the wrong date. Not bad but not beautiful either.

So the behavior of geocaching.com/track/ would be fine (as option).

Of course this functionality does not have to be implemented on the web server. It is also completely okay if this happens with a cookie or otherwise locally in the browser.

Cancel a TB discovery batch?

Mon, 27 May 2019 14:21:31 +0000

It's been over two days, and my three batches are still queued. The number in queue is changing (mainly upward), but I don't seem to be moving much closer to the top. There are 444 total items of mine. I've gotten impatient and already logged them all myself. How do I remove these from the batch so that they're not (maybe .. eventually) double-logged?

TB discoveries - logs are encrypted

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:54:05 +0000

I used the TB discovery tool for around forty TBs. When I went to check the discoveries on the website, I noticed that all log entries are encrypted. I couldn't find any option to affect this. Is this a bug or how can I discover TBs with normal logs, not encrypted?

Statistics for My Discovered Trackables.

Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:21:05 +0000

Could a feature be made that provides statistics for the Trackables that I have discovered.

Including:

Distance Traveled

Amount of Geocachers who have discovered the trackable

Amount of caches the Trackable has visited

This would make it easier to compare the statistics for all the travel bugs I have discovered.

TB Discover tool: empty log messages when using special Unicode characters

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:57:19 +0000

I’ve just attempted to discover a couple of TBs with the tool, and this time, it worked successfully but with an empty log message on each. Editing it on the GS website made it work. No idea if this is a generic bug or one dependent on the log message, and within PGC or the GS API.

The log message I used was:

… heh, turns out it disappears from here. Also, it appears to have been converted into UTF-16 surrogates on the GS website in the TB log (example: http://coord.info/TB24KYN), but the individual log (http://coord.info/TLG5NDTM) and the same U-0001F3B2 character on the cache log page are fine.

The “Toggle log text” button in the TB Discover tool history also shows nothing, so this appears to be a bug in PGC with (my educated guess) Unicode codepoints from the astral planes.

TB discover tool errors out with “no token”

Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:54:50 +0000

I just tried to discover (luckily only 3) TBs through the tool, but it failed them all with “no token”. Maybe something with the Groundspeak API is hicupping again?

Has the Discover trackables tool stalled?

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:19:25 +0000

There are 6400 in the queue andthe number is climbing. The ones I added are still in the queue.

Trackable Discover Tool discoveres every TB 3x !

Wed, 06 May 2015 09:28:42 +0000

Last time I used the tool, every TB has been discovered and logged 3 times, please fix that bug.

yours MasterPu

Are there 430 trackables stuck in the Discover Trackables tool?

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:03:30 +0000

Every time I use the Discover Trackables tool there are 430 (plus a few) trackables in the queue. Is this a coincidence or are there some stuck in the queue?

How can I see with the new Trackable Discover Tool the codes that are not passing during the log ?

Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:57:01 +0000

How can I see with the new Trackable Discover Tool the codes that are not passing during the log ?

In the history I can only see the number ob codes who are in error.