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<p>[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4132729, member: 99239"]I know this can be frustrating. I had thought about making all records directly editable by any user Wikipedia-style but worried, perhaps without justification, about vandalism.</p><p><br /></p><p>The temporary solution I can offer is to simply give anyone who thinks they might use the db regularly the admin tools to make these changes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The live server is "fed" from a test server which updates weekly sending it all the new records and overwriting any changes made. What you would do is connect to this test server (<a href="http://coinvac.crabdance.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinvac.crabdance.com/" rel="nofollow">http://coinvac.crabdance.com/</a>) and just make your edits there which take place immediately. You will need to email me so I can grant your ip address admin rights but after that you have control over any record in the database and the tools make it pretty easy to do this sort of thing. Here's a mini-tutorial</p><p><br /></p><p>Let's say we want to kick those emperors out of Probus and put them in the correct place.</p><p><br /></p><p>We cruise on over to the main Probus page as admin</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like the thumbnail generator isn't working right now but whatever, it doesn't matter for now. Right away you see the layout has changed allowing you to reallocate and delete records (reserved for junk/fakes) but let's home in on those suspicious Arelates</p><p><br /></p><p>When I click Arelate I get</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069803[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The easiest way to move those two Constantines is to select the move checkbox and then pick Constantine I from the pulldown over to the left and finally click save at the bottom. The changes take effect immediately and the weights and prices recalculate resulting in data that's slightly more reliable.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069805[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are frequent backups to fall back on should something go south but you can see why I'm hesitant to letting everyone be admin as this gives you full control over all the records. You guys obviously know what you're doing so happy to let you have at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since it's a testbed for the programmer, and is running as a virtual machine rather than a proper machine, it can be slower and things won't always work right but for the most part you'll probably want to do your research here since those bad records can be a really annoying intrusion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4132729, member: 99239"]I know this can be frustrating. I had thought about making all records directly editable by any user Wikipedia-style but worried, perhaps without justification, about vandalism. The temporary solution I can offer is to simply give anyone who thinks they might use the db regularly the admin tools to make these changes. The live server is "fed" from a test server which updates weekly sending it all the new records and overwriting any changes made. What you would do is connect to this test server ([URL]http://coinvac.crabdance.com/[/URL]) and just make your edits there which take place immediately. You will need to email me so I can grant your ip address admin rights but after that you have control over any record in the database and the tools make it pretty easy to do this sort of thing. Here's a mini-tutorial Let's say we want to kick those emperors out of Probus and put them in the correct place. We cruise on over to the main Probus page as admin [ATTACH=full]1069799[/ATTACH] Looks like the thumbnail generator isn't working right now but whatever, it doesn't matter for now. Right away you see the layout has changed allowing you to reallocate and delete records (reserved for junk/fakes) but let's home in on those suspicious Arelates When I click Arelate I get [ATTACH=full]1069803[/ATTACH] The easiest way to move those two Constantines is to select the move checkbox and then pick Constantine I from the pulldown over to the left and finally click save at the bottom. The changes take effect immediately and the weights and prices recalculate resulting in data that's slightly more reliable. [ATTACH=full]1069805[/ATTACH] There are frequent backups to fall back on should something go south but you can see why I'm hesitant to letting everyone be admin as this gives you full control over all the records. You guys obviously know what you're doing so happy to let you have at it. Since it's a testbed for the programmer, and is running as a virtual machine rather than a proper machine, it can be slower and things won't always work right but for the most part you'll probably want to do your research here since those bad records can be a really annoying intrusion. Rasiel[/QUOTE]
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