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Written by Bryan Orthner   
Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Work continues on the subscription system. Automatic processing of paypal payments to activate accounts was working on my test server, but due to some changes between the Paypal test enivronment and the live environment, it was not functioning properly after I first installed the changes. I am hopeful that the problems are all resolved now, but I would appreciate reports of success or failure until I am confident that everything is in place properly. Please note that renewals will not change the username or password yet, so if you renew your account, please try logging in with your account username and password from last year. You can then change them using the My Details button.

I am continuing to work on the quiz builder to improve support for working with multiple key verse lists and multiple question sets. If your district has an official key verse list and it is not posted in the quiz builder, please feel free to email me a copy of the list and I will see that it is added to the quiz builder. I have just updated the quiz builder to allow downloading of question sets so that they can be edited. For now, the format is a tab-delimited text file -- if you save this link to your computer, you should be able to import the file into Excel or OpenOffice Calc (or any other spreadsheet or database program). In future, I hope to offer downloads in Excel format directly, but this will likely take a while to develop.

Some people are undoubtedly wondering about the question lists and card formats available in previous years from the Luke Resources section of the website. I am currently working on an altered version of the quiz builder which will generate full question lists in multiple formats. This will allow the question lists to be appropriately marked for different districts' key verse lists. It will also allow generation of subsets of questions -- for example, creating cards for all the MA questions in Luke chapter 1, or a list of all the CVR questions in Luke. I expect to be completed this work within a week.Feedback will be welcome!

 
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Written by Bryan Orthner   
Monday, 18 August 2008

I have been working on updates to the site, and particularly to the registration system.

Subscribers from previous years may now log in with the existing username and password and will be automatically directed to a renewal form, which will give them the choice of paying through PayPal or printing a form with instructions for mailing a payment by cheque or money order.

New subscribers may click the Register link or the Subscription Order Form button to get to a subscription form, which will give them the choice of paying through PayPal or printing a form with instructions for mailing a payment by cheque or money order. Please note that subscribing to the District competition materials still requires emailing Bryan, as these materials are only available to District coordinators or those approved by them for access to these materials.

PayPal payments and payments by credit cards should now be fully working. After filling out your subscription form and selecting Pay by PayPal, once you submit the form you will go to a screen with a PayPal Pay Now button on it. Click the button to go to the Paypal site. Even if you do not have a PayPal account, you should be able to use a credit card to make your payment through the PayPal system. Once your payment is processed, you will return automatically to the Quizhelper site, where you should see a page confirming that your account has been activated. At this point, you should be able to log in and access the site. Please note that if you have renewed your account, you will need to use your old username and password, as these are not automatically updated from the subscription form (Not yet, anway!).

As always, feel free to email me through the Contact Us link on the front page if you have any problems.

In other site changes, I have revamped the quiz builder logging to give me more support information to help me understand the cause of any problems. As a side benefit of the changes I have made, you are now able to repeat any requests made for quizzes. This offers yet another starting point for building quizzes, as you can pull up an old request, make whatever changes may be appropriate, and issue a new request.

The quiz builder now allows you to see key verse lists and download them for editing. I will be adding the same functionality for question lists to support the use of multiple question sets.

Now that the subscription system is (I hope!) finally working as it needs to, I should be able to do final editing on the church question set and post the question list and cards in a user-friendly format.

  

Last Updated ( Monday, 18 August 2008 )
 
Luke materials
Written by Bryan Orthner   
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Luke materials are now being posted! After many delays, I have finally received clarification on my permissions from Zondervan and am able to post materials again. I am currently in the middle of reworking the subscription system -- for the moment, all subscriptions will result in a manual Paypal invoice being sent to you (if you request it), and the account will be manually activated following payment. I hope to automate some of this process in the near future to speed up access to the site by allowing immediate payment and activation.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 July 2008 )
 
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