{"id":656,"date":"2018-01-15T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/?p=656"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:24:55","slug":"judgeapps-updates-november-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/2018\/01\/15\/judgeapps-updates-november-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"JudgeApps Updates \u2013 November-December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back! This one is going to be a short one. Don\u2019t get me wrong, a huge amount of effort went into JudgeApps these last two months, but most of it was invested in creating a robust infrastructure for exams and for the people working on the incredible amount of content involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I get to the update part of this post, a big shout-out to the JudgeApps Exam Content Squad (led by Louis Fernandes<\/a><\/span><\/span>) for all the work that\u2019s going into getting exams live ASAP.<\/span><\/p>\n

As promised, some updates\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Exemplar<\/span><\/h1>\n

Wave 12 of exemplar introduced some <\/span>changes<\/span><\/a>, and those changes required some tweaks to the platform used to nominate judges. Starting with the current wave, all nominations have a character limit, so they can fit on the back of a token card. The limit is 1,500 characters for latin characters, and 800 characters in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Phrase your recognitions carefully \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n

Event Calendars<\/span><\/h1>\n

To help judges managing all their event and conference applications, JudgeApps <\/span>introduced a personal event calendar<\/span><\/a>. If you go to your profile, you\u2019ll find a new field: Events Calendar Links. These links can be loaded into calendar applications (such as Google Calendar or Outlook) so you can keep track of the events that interest you on your personal calendar. To avoid filling your calendar with a bunch of events that you don\u2019t care about, the event calendar is limited to events you\u2019ve applied to only. You can choose to get a calendar of events that you applied to, events to which your application was accepted, or both. My personal preference is to use the application and accepted calendars separately, but label them with different colors in my calendar app.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Reviews<\/span><\/h1>\n

After telling you that you can edit advancement reviews to fix spelling and such, some of you listened and did just that. And then you got an error that prevented you from saving those edits. That error is now fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while we\u2019re talking about advancement reviews, we added some help messages to help you when writing those. When writing an advancement review for a judge, the \u201cnew level\u201d field should reflect the level the judge is trying to advance to, not the one they\u2019ll end up having (that\u2019s what the \u201cSuccessful Interview?\u201d field and the exam score are for). So if, for example, a judge candidate has failed the L1 test, his new level should be noted as \u201c1\u201d, but the advancement won\u2019t happen. We also added some clarifications about grading L3 qualities, for all you L3 panel leads out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minor Fixes<\/span><\/h1>\n