[Expo-tech] expo.survex.com now running, and more fixes.

Thu Apr 1 21:40:55 BST 2021

Thanks to Wookey’s friend Phil Hands the server is now up and running again on new hardware (rehoming the old hard drive).

Our horrible login/https/security problem has mysteriously evaporated, so that’s great…. though slightly worrying.

Online editing of logbooks, survex files and handbook pages all working. As are descriptions of caves and entrances.

By expo this summer I hope to have a fully-robust way of uploading photos, scanned survey notes and scanned survey sketches, which might even work from your phone.

Also more pages are now cleaner and less likely to break, including 

http://expo.survex.com/1623/290/290.html

http://expo.survex.com/stats

but the .3d files do mostly need regenerating for the 3D CaveView display, though 204 is ok:

http://expo.survex.com/1623/204/204.html  (I like the -10 degrees, 331 degrees view myself)

*new* capability is that it can now cope with the same cave number in two different kataster areas, e.g. see 

http://expo.survex.com/survexfile/55 

It hasn’t been able to do this since Mark Shinwell split out the different kataster areas in 2018.

The API is coming along, you can easily export  the expeditions data in JSON at https://expo.survex.com/api/expeditions_json which is not useful yet.

Philip

PS We can also export anything in JSON via a control panel, though it’s slightly fiddly. Email me if you want to do that.

From: Rebecca Lawson [mailto:beckalawson at gmail.com] 
Sent: 31 March 2021 20:21
To: Philip Sargent [Gmail]
Subject: Re: http://localhost:8000/handbook/logbooks.html

Expo server still down but prod me next week if I haven't got back to you about this

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 00:53, Philip Sargent [Gmail] <philip.sargent at gmail.com> wrote:

btw

could you possibly check that this page documenting the logbook format is what you expect ?

http://expo.survex.com/handbook/logbooks.html

From: Rebecca Lawson [mailto:beckalawson at gmail.com] 
Sent: 21 March 2021 23:55
To: Philip Sargent [Gmail]
Cc: Wookey; Phil Sargent
Subject: Re: Online editing works: https://expo.survex.com/years/2019/logbook.html_edit

Cool, thanks Phil, I'll get this article I'm writing out of the way then try to get straight onto fixing up the logbooks as online editing sounds like my kind of thing ;-)

Bug me in a couple of weeks if nothing seems to be happening.

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 at 23:41, Philip Sargent [Gmail] <philip.sargent at gmail.com> wrote:

Becka,  you can edit it in your web browser, no software install needed. 

Just look at https://expo.survex.com/years/2019/logbook.html_edit

I just checked. It works.

assuming you can edit HTML in text mode.

The pretty HTML editor has been temporarily removed pending an update.

From: Philip Sargent [Gmail] [mailto:philip.sargent at gmail.com] 
Sent: 21 March 2021 23:36
To: 'Wookey'; 'Rebecca Lawson'
Cc: 'Phil Sargent'
Subject: Yes..: Logbook 2019 - on the to-do list

Originally Paul Fox, then me. Sam did a few edits.

It was me who copied in some of the stuff from ukcaving blog. 

Most of my git commits were formatting to make the import process work rather than to ensure that all the text had been typed up.

The list of jobs remaining to do with logbooks is here:

https://expo.survex.com/handbook//computing/todo-data.html <https://expo.survex.com/handbook/computing/todo-data.html> 

i.e. 

2019 Logbook

·        transcribe the rest of those UKcaving blog entries into expoweb/years/2019/logbook.html

·        copy the photos from the UKCaving blog into expofiles/photos/2019// -- in fact many of those photos are already there

·        edit in the links to those photos in the right place in 2019/logbook.html

Garlic cave

·        edit logbook entries 2018, 2019 to link to extensive photos of Garlic cave area {Withnall 2018} , {Becka 2019}

Add missing images to logbooks

2018, 2009, 2008, 2001 , 2000, 1992, 1989,..2011? List here:  <https://expo.survex.com/handbook/pubs.htm> pubs.htm Previous years HTML logbooks are missing images extracted from scanned PDF copies of the logbooks.

2018 logbook:

RENAME files of photos /2018/BlogPostPhotos/* from .JPG to .jpg as the generated .xml files get confused.

2011 logbook:

type up via-ferrate & bolt-testing writeups (In paper book, not in scan or HTML)

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sargent [Gmail] [mailto:philip.sargent at gmail.com] 
Sent: 21 March 2021 23:24
To: 'Wookey'; 'Rebecca Lawson'
Cc: 'Phil Sargent'
Subject: RE: Logbook 2019

Hi,

I certainly had a hand in it but I usually put a little tick on every logbook page after I have typed it up, and I can't see any ticks on that scanned PDF.

I'll check the git repo.

Philip

-----Original Message-----

From: Wookey [mailto:wookey at wookware.org] 

Sent: 21 March 2021 23:21

To: Rebecca Lawson

Cc: Phil Sargent

Subject: Re: Logbook 2019

On 2021-03-21 20:17 +0000, Rebecca Lawson wrote:

>    I've been reading through previous log books, quite a lot of typos and

>    failures to read hand writing which I could fix if I had the logbooks and

>    could efficiently edit it.

There are PDF scans of the last decade or so online: http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/writeups/

not quite as good as the originals but usually sufficient.

And you should have a website checkout so you can easily edit the files? 

>    Specifically, 2019 looks rather flaky - and incomplete - do you know who

>    typed it up and from where?

I have no record of this. Phil did 2018. It was mostly checked-in by PhilS and edited by Paul Fox. But maybe someone else did the actual typing. cc:ing Phil as he probably knows

>    I am usually fairly fastidious about doing trip reports or getting others

>    on my trip to do them and, for example, my last Balkon (derig) trip isn't

>    in or my Homecoming derig trip. I think we had a mix of typing entries in

>    and using a logbook. I suspect things got lost inbetween .. or perhaps

>    someone gave up partway through typing it in. 

>    Also lots of the titles include "Blog PostBlog Post bit" and are these

>    really all of the write ups?

You can check the scan at: http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/writeups/2019/logbook.pdf

I presume the blog-post bits are copied from here:

https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25249.0 (which isn't linked in http://expo.survex.com/years/2019/: that only has a link to the rope sponsorship post. Easy thing to fix (except I don't have room for an expo checkout on this machine, without sorting out some stuff: My IT is slowly recovering after my laptop died in Jan.)

Wookey

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