[ANSTHRLD] Website functionality

Jacquie Ziegler shauna at bresnan.net
Tue May 29 14:12:06 PDT 2012


On 5/29/2012 2:39 PM, Doug Bell wrote:
> The only problem with the Ansteorra site is lack of any way to search the kingdom submission archive. PDF files are very stable but the lack of any way to search their contents takes away their other advantages.
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> The only way I know to access past kingdom submissions is look the submitter's name in the index and then go to the indicated ILOI. This only allows search by submitter's name. No search of internal contents is possible without loading and searching each letter for each month of each year.
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> I search archives of kingdoms' submissions all the time. No kingdom herald preparing letters provides a complete submission history for all items and submitters are good at presenting resubmissions as new submissions. It affects payment and reason for return issues that commenters need to know. Past submissions of name elements often contain needed information that can save hours of reading.
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> Right now the Ansteorra site works rather well. The only heraldic internet headache right now comes from OSCAR's kingdom comment deadline routine being off it's meds again. Its inS.A.N.E inability to open and close commentary for kingdoms on the correct date is annoying.
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> Magnus
The alternative, of course, is to ask the Laurel Archivist (me!). :-) If 
it made it out-Kingdom, I have access to lots and lots of info.

Shauna



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