Online TLA Not Online

I submitted my Online TLA mid-day Friday.

Here it is Tuesday evening and it is still not online.

Mike Nolan posted that Joan usually posts them by the next day, I assume business.

I guess I will need to call the USCF office tomorrow to find out what’s up with that.

I only see one pending online TLA, and it isn’t yours.

It does not appear that you clicked on the ‘request approval’ button.

u can always come post in mine online system :slight_smile:

It may not appear that way, but I distinctly remember doing that.

I will attempt to submit it once more.

Sevan, thanks, let me know how I can get the info on your web page.

It made it into the pending queue this time.

The only updates I show to that TLA are:

Created: 2010-01-08 11:41:13.476704-06
Revised: 2010-01-08 11:43:56.949909-06
Revised: 2010-01-08 11:45:33.225031-06
Revised: 2010-01-08 11:55:59.280034-06
Revised: 2010-01-08 11:59:32.248052-06
Approval Requested: 2010-01-12 21:05:43.523415-06

I guess it must not have registered or something the first time I did it.

I too saw that log after I submitted it this time.

Well, you’ll know to watch for it next time. :sigh:

I’m not sure why websites (and not just ours) don’t always recognizes submit buttons when they’re clicked.

What’s worse, occasionally a website will do a double-submit. I think that’s what causes the occasional double post in the Forums.

If that happens on a ‘process charge’ button, the card can get charged twice. I’ve put in code to prevent that on the USCF webstore, but I’ve had it happen to me on another webstore.

Haven’t had a double post yet, but the other day I lost four different submits.

Here is what I was doing: (a) Click “Post a Reply”. (b) Start composing. Decide I need to refer to something in the thread, so (c) right-click on the subject link at the top of the page and click “Open Link in New Tab” (using Firefox 3.0.17 on Ubuntu 8.10). (d) Switch back to my reply and finish typing. (e) Click Submit. (f) Wonder what happened to my post???

Once I stopped doing (c), I also eliminated (f).

Rather than depending on Windows-geeky features (like “Open Link in New Tab”), I just highlight the whole document so far by hitting control-A (after making sure the cursor is somewhere in the reply window), then control-C (to copy the document to the clipboard), then I open Word and do a control-V (paste from the clipboard). That way, if worse comes to worst, I have the document in Word.

Bill Smythe

I’ve concluded no one really understands why computers do anything.

Computers actually run the world, they just let us think we do. :neutral_face:

Speaking as an information systems professional with 34 years experience, the old truism still holds: Garbage in, garbage out. And that especially holds true for what passes for software these days…

Egads, 34 years?! :open_mouth:

newbie.