New Competition Options

[Administrator]

I have been working on some code to be able to add options to competitions.

When you post a competition, you will notice that there are lots of options you can select by checking the checkbox.
This work is under development and when finished members will be able to search for particular types of competitions.
When viewing a comp, a list of options particular to that comp will be listed so you can quickly tell what type of comp it is.

Hope you like it so far.

[teash]

It's great nice work , only, the comp I was posting was an Answer Question comp....and there was no box to tick for one like that...

[Administrator]

What is an answer question comp?

I'd love some suggestions if anybody has any ideas about option fields we need etc..

[sylph]

Answer question comps are ones that don't have to be words or less, just something like "What is the Capital of Queensland?" or "Name the two colours our products come in." something like that.

[Administrator]

'Answers'  has been added as a type 

[teash]

Yay I just noticed that.... thank you

[zenbaba]

Is it possible to get some sort of option that we can select when we have read a competition to mark whether we have entered it?

[eveready]

Is it possible to get some sort of option that we can select when we have read a competition to mark whether we have entered it?

That's a good idea.

[psychocat]

This is a great idea, it will save a lot of typing in the Subject line!!!!

Just one small suggestion, is it OK to put a box for 'All States' in the States section so we don't have to tick 8 boxes.  That would be great!!!

Also, in the Requirements section, is it OK to add 'Slogan' , 'Refer a Friend' and also 'Recipe'.  I also sometimes post some craft competitions that require you to actually send in a piece of artwork so I'm not sure if that could be incorporated as well - thanks!!

[snuggle1]

I found it a little daunting at first.

I was wondering if it could include children's competitions and for less frequent than monthly (i.e. 3 monthly)?

Thank you,

snuggle1

[psychocat]

Figured it out!

[teash]

I am just wondering if you are aware that at the top of the competition listing there is a nbsp tag  : &nbspClosing Date: I am guessing it is coming up because there needs to be a gap in between the p and C...

[Administrator]

Yes, the options system is up and running!
I do have some errors logged in the background which I'm sorting out but it is working.

Is it possible to get some sort of option that we can select when we have read a competition to mark whether we have entered it?

This is possible and I've been thinking about doing this.

Just one small suggestion, is it OK to put a box for 'All States' in the States section so we don't have to tick 8 boxes.  That would be great!!!

The problem with the "All States" checkbox is that it would have to be a radio button instead of a checkbox.
ie, if you clicked "ALL STATES", all other checkboxes would have to be greyed out so you can't choose "All States" and "NSW".
It's just the way I wrote the code, and I can change this later when I figure out how to do the code.

I was wondering if it could include children's competitions and for less frequent than monthly (i.e. 3 monthly)?

This is for every type of competition, it's not supposed to replace the competition categories we already have - ie: 'People's Choice,  Web Comps, Children's comps" ...
I can add more options like every 3 months? - yes but where do we stop? - (bi-monthly, every 6 months)

Also, in the Requirements section, is it OK to add 'Slogan' and also 'Recipe'...

I would have thought that these two are answers.

These are all great suggestions and thanks for providing some thought  
As far as adding lots of new checkboxes, we don't want to making it too daunting of a task to enter comps, but, if a new checkbox is really needed and we can't use an existing one, I'll add it.

If anybody has any more suggestions please keep them coming. Thanks.

[Administrator]

oops! I noticed an error with the New Competition Options.

The options don't get recorded during the initial post, you need to go back and edit the comp and select the options again.

I will try to figure out what is wrong this evening.
I'm very sorry about this.

[psychocat]

Is it possible to put an 'Instore Entry' option in the Entry method section please?  For competitions like this: http://compingclub.com/index.php?topic=99154.msg412246#msg412246

Also in the Requirements section could there be a 'Refer a Friend' option?

[Quickie]

it's great admin - just one more tiny step but it's so good having all those options

oops! I noticed an error with the New Competition Options.

The options don't get recorded during the initial post, you need to go back and edit the comp and select the options again.

I will try to figure out what is wrong this evening.
I'm very sorry about this.

[psychocat]

Is it possible to put an 'Instore Entry' option in the Entry method section please?  For competitions like this: http://compingclub.com/index.php?topic=99154.msg412246#msg412246

Didn't get an answer to this one yet - can we PLEASE have an Instore Entry option?  I've just posted another comp http://compingclub.com/index.php?topic=99898.msg414292#msg414292 where you need to enter in person!

[Administrator]

I've added the extra two options.

[bluemoon]

I was wondering if we could get an option for, needs to be a pay TV subscriber

[Administrator]

We  already have 'You need to subscribe to something' which should cover TV, magazines, websites, etc..

[bluemoon]

no worries, i just thought that option was more for having to subscribe to websites, not TV

[puzzlefan]

all of this is amazing, thanks heaps admin!!!! ^_^

[bluemoon]

can we please get an 'open to all' box in the states section because i noticed people are ticking them all and you have to go through them to see if your state is there if you get what i mean, lol

[psychocat]

can we please get an 'open to all' box in the states section because i noticed people are ticking them all and you have to go through them to see if your state is there if you get what i mean, lol

I've already asked about this, bluemoon.  But it doesn't seem to be possible for some reason??????????

[Administrator]

OK, I've added an 'All States' checkbox.
I'll have to try to figure out how to disable the other checkboxes if All States is selected (if I can).

[kityjaeli]

just wondering how it is these options work? is this just for when posting comps? i want to be able to mark comps as i enter/read them but cant seem to find out how?

[bluemoon]

theyre for the people who post the comps  to fill out kity, but they dont work straight away, your have to post the comp then click the edit button and go back and fill them in

sorry psychocat, i didnt realise you'd asked

thanks admin

[Valleygirl]

Interval
One Draw Only
Hourly Draw
Daily Draw
Weekly Draw
Fortnightly Draw
Monthly Draw
Bi-Monthly Draw


Could you add instant win or something similar?

[Major Tom]

Just a note to everyone..we had a glitch with the 'All States' box in the options, which has now been corrected, but which has resulted in 'All States' comps now showing as only WA.

We will correct them as we find them so please bear with us, but please don't inundate us with posts to be corrected.

Also note that if you have posted the comp yourself, you can correct it by simply clicking on [edit] in the calendar section at the top of your post and changing the options.

You cannot correct another person's post, and please do not comment in the posts about the problem, we don't want the scroller filled with identical comments.

In the meantime, if you come across a comp that says WA only, please check the Terms and Conditions to varify before entry.

Thanks for your time