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So Riverton fields on the ‘new’ crapsite for today and Monday have been reduced to the horses name and number and that’s it? 

No form, no riders, no trainers, no nothing......what a disgrace and an embarrassment the site has become, but nothing that hasn’t been said before I guess.

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I've got to the point where I have no confidence in looking at the from they provide anyway.  When the new site went live it was so inaccurate for so long.

What I don't understand is how can an organization like AAP Mega form get it right and the NZRB can't?!

Surely they source the same data?

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Hi guys I'm supposed to be flying to HK this arvo but my flight has been delayed. I had a look at the TAB sight it's a disgrace no wonder our turnovers are dropping third world stuff. So this is what happened I rang the tab waited 14 minutes and got a "team leader" told him who I was - he had never heard of me - don't want people taking this wrong but really- this is what is wrong a team leader. Do that not have to have some knowledge I thought stuff this so I rang John Allen and to his credit he answered me He to was surprised and disappointed that a "team leader" had so little knowledge He did explain they are aware of the issues and have people working on it

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11 minutes ago, Pitman said:

Hi guys I'm supposed to be flying to HK this arvo but my flight has been delayed. I had a look at the TAB sight it's a disgrace no wonder our turnovers are dropping third world stuff. So this is what happened I rang the tab waited 14 minutes and got a "team leader" told him who I was - he had never heard of me - don't want people taking this wrong but really- this is what is wrong a team leader. Do that not have to have some knowledge I thought stuff this so I rang John Allen and to his credit he answered me He to was surprised and disappointed that a "team leader" had so little knowledge He did explain they are aware of the issues and have people working on it

Yeah right.

You are lucky you got someone to answer the phone though - albeit a 'team leader' ....I haven't been very fortunate in that respect.

Good luck in H.K...make the most of things and have a great time.

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1 hour ago, Pitman said:

Hi guys I'm supposed to be flying to HK this arvo but my flight has been delayed. I had a look at the TAB sight it's a disgrace no wonder our turnovers are dropping third world stuff. So this is what happened I rang the tab waited 14 minutes and got a "team leader" told him who I was - he had never heard of me - don't want people taking this wrong but really- this is what is wrong a team leader. Do that not have to have some knowledge I thought stuff this so I rang John Allen and to his credit he answered me He to was surprised and disappointed that a "team leader" had so little knowledge He did explain they are aware of the issues and have people working on it

He should fecking talk , why be surprised and disappointed at a " team leaders " lack of knowledge when as the NZRB leader his knowledge of NZ racing would as sparse as water in the Sahara .

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On 20/04/2019 at 2:29 PM, Pitman said:

Hi guys I'm supposed to be flying to HK this arvo but my flight has been delayed. I had a look at the TAB sight it's a disgrace no wonder our turnovers are dropping third world stuff. So this is what happened I rang the tab waited 14 minutes and got a "team leader" told him who I was - he had never heard of me - don't want people taking this wrong but really- this is what is wrong a team leader. Do that not have to have some knowledge I thought stuff this so I rang John Allen and to his credit he answered me He to was surprised and disappointed that a "team leader" had so little knowledge He did explain they are aware of the issues and have people working on it

obviously they don't work over Easter as Riverton Monday is exactly the same still at 5.05pm Sunday!

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1 hour ago, von Smallhaussen said:

obviously they don't work over Easter as Riverton Monday is exactly the same still at 5.05pm Sunday!

As a person who works in IT and writes code this is an interesting problem.

I suspect the base code has been written by contractors so it won’t be looked at or even fixed until Tuesday. As the functionality for displaying details for each runner works for all other meetings except Riverton, this indicates values/parameters being passed to load the data are either invalid or unrecognizable.

My best guess is when they loaded the core data for Riverton (date, course, meeting etc..), there is a bug (leading or trailing space for example) which the rest of the code can’t interpret. The way the code is compiled, it will load as much as it can and not crash the site.

Just my opinion.

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1 hour ago, Docker said:

As a person who works in IT and writes code this is an interesting problem.

I suspect the base code has been written by contractors so it won’t be looked at or even fixed until Tuesday. As the functionality for displaying details for each runner works for all other meetings except Riverton, this indicates values/parameters being passed to load the data are either invalid or unrecognizable.

My best guess is when they loaded the core data for Riverton (date, course, meeting etc..), there is a bug (leading or trailing space for example) which the rest of the code can’t interpret. The way the code is compiled, it will load as much as it can and not crash the site.

Just my opinion.

Always keen to look at mysteries.

I think the problem is having two Riverton meetings close together both Jetbet#6.

Probably stems from non racing person fed Mondays fields over the top of Saturday fields. The NZTR man supplying the fields off on an early holiday. Hard to believe but it would appear the fields then needed to be inputed by hand. That still doesn't explain Monday also having no data. The extended form obviously under a different system so not affected.

Playing around with queries and cut and paste should have fixed everything but maybe the system or training is such its not possible.

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58 minutes ago, The Centaur said:

Always keen to look at mysteries.

I think the problem is having two Riverton meetings close together both Jetbet#6.

Probably stems from non racing person fed Mondays fields over the top of Saturday fields. The NZTR man supplying the fields off on an early holiday. Hard to believe but it would appear the fields then needed to be inputed by hand. That still doesn't explain Monday also having no data. The extended form obviously under a different system so not affected.

Playing around with queries and cut and paste should have fixed everything but maybe the system or training is such its not possible.

You make some good points. 

It did cross my mind that having 2 meetings close together at the same venue with the same meeting code with some runners nominated for both days may have caused this issue. SQL queries if not filtered correctly in the where clause that return 2 results when only one is expected can stop other code from executing. 

So it’s interesting to note Riverton is the first time it’s raced under the new platform and a meeting held at the same venue only a day apart is also being raced using this platform. Hopefully they tested these scenarios.

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15 hours ago, Docker said:

As a person who works in IT and writes code this is an interesting problem.

I suspect the base code has been written by contractors so it won’t be looked at or even fixed until Tuesday. As the functionality for displaying details for each runner works for all other meetings except Riverton, this indicates values/parameters being passed to load the data are either invalid or unrecognizable.

My best guess is when they loaded the core data for Riverton (date, course, meeting etc..), there is a bug (leading or trailing space for example) which the rest of the code can’t interpret. The way the code is compiled, it will load as much as it can and not crash the site.

Just my opinion.

Could be wrong but I think this has happened before at Riverton for some strange reason - a couple of months ago I think - certainly after the launch of the dog.  Must be low on their priorities to fix.  Maybe it's something simple like not having a long enough extension cord to reach way down south

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12 minutes ago, Mark D said:

Could be wrong but I think this has happened before at Riverton for some strange reason - a couple of months ago I think - certainly after the launch of the dog.  Must be low on their priorities to fix.  Maybe it's something simple like not having a long enough extension cord to reach way down south

Hi MD - this is the first time Riverton have raced this year but I get what your saying. When the new site was launched, oversea racing fields had very little detail about each runner, quite similar to what we see now for Riverton. Maybe they are using an older API or the developer did not realise Riverton is in NZ, not a town in Utah. ? 

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27 minutes ago, Docker said:

Hi MD - this is the first time Riverton have raced this year but I get what your saying. When the new site was launched, oversea racing fields had very little detail about each runner, quite similar to what we see now for Riverton. Maybe they are using an older API or the developer did not realise Riverton is in NZ, not a town in Utah. ? 

Must have been Invergiggle then

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