Problems with teaching table logs?

[paulg]

There seems to be a set of conditions under which a log is not output from a teaching table - unfortunately I'm not sure what they are ;)

 

My teaching session this evening did not create a log. I was playing in three positions for the first 5 boards, and then kibitzed for the last 4 boards. No log was created.

 

The chat log is fine, all the comments are there :P

 

My options are to log all hands. I'm running the 3.7.3 release, but I'm not sure its purely down to this.

 

Sorry I cannot provide any definitive bug.

 

Paul

[fred]

Deals are not added to a log file unless a result is achieved.

 

Many teachers do not go to the end of play or claim when

they present deals at teaching tables (especially when the

lesson is about the bidding).

 

I suspect that this is what happened.

 

Yes, we could improve things in this area and I suspect we

will eventually. Most likely the next change to the log files

will involve having an option to automatically insert chat

into the appropriate places of the bidding/play sequence

of each deal. This would be a nice thing for both teaching

tables and for vugraph.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[Cascade]

Fred I suspect that there is something else going on here.

 

I get requests from time to time from people who have tried to log the session but it has not worked.

 

e.g. In the session that I hosted on Friday with you and Roland in the 2/1 club I received a request for the logs from someone who said they were there all of the time. I carefully claimed on every deal to get a log and the log saved successfully for me but the person who emailed me said that their log contained only one hand.

[fred]

Leaving the table and then returning (either intentionally or

via a disconnect) would result in the type of thing the student

in question describes, Wayne.

 

I was at the table the entire time and my log file was perfect.

 

Fred

[paulg]

Deals are not added to a log file unless a result is achieved.

 

Many teachers do not go to the end of play or claim when

they present deals at teaching tables (especially when the

lesson is about the bidding).

 

I suspect that this is what happened.

 

This is quite possible although I did know that finishing a hand was important. This specific session did have lots of replaying the hand, i.e., getting to trick 12, winding back to trick 3, forward to trick 7, back to trick 3 again :) and then on to the end.

 

Is it necessary to finish every hand, or just the last one?

 

Yes, we could improve things in this area and I suspect we

will eventually. Most likely the next change to the log files

will involve having an option to automatically insert chat

into the appropriate places of the bidding/play sequence

of each deal. This would be a nice thing for both teaching

tables and for vugraph.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

 

This would be great ... I hadn't realised that chat and play could be synchronised in the logs. Unexpectedly there does appear to be a demand from my regulars to see the sessions they've missed :D

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[fred]

Only board in which either a claim is made or all 52

cards are played out (or a passout) will appear in the

log files.

 

If you leave the table (either or purpose or because of

a disconnection) a log file of all the hands you have seen

for which results were achieved will be created. If you

then rejoin the table, a new log file will start to be built.

 

At least this is how it is supposed to work. It is possible

that there is a bug in this area, but I doubt it.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com