Nancy: kerfuffle with wildcard

I'm excited that Nancy would like to post stuff on this blog. I'll tag these with her name so that all the scribers can easily find her entries.

Kerfuffle with Wildcards by Nancy

When testing 4.0.1 (we are on 7.7.2 in production) I noticed that wildcards used in scribing course numbers were not behaving correctly. I filed a service request with my example. After some discussion of what should be happening, I was told to try changing a new flag in D20 DAP13. The new flag is named "Wildcard Character Match". The flag had been set to "0" as a default, meaning a wildcard matches 0 or more characters. A wildcard has always matched 1 or more characters.

It seems to me that the default for a new flag should be the way the product has always behaved. A user wanting the new functionality should be the one to go in and set it.

After I changed the flag to "1", the audits were OK. So, make sure this flag is set to 1 if a wildcard means 1 or more characters for your scribing.

Nancy

She's the genius Scriber and Audit Engine Expert. I honestly think the success of DW at UCI is mainly because of her.

Many of the DW community knows her but I just wanted to formally introduce her. She was very active in the past as the DW module rep.

She's made her mark on DW in many ways. Especially in the way the audit engine works and some of the way scribe is created. Here is some of her influences on the product.:

- Exceptions "With DW___"
- StandAlone Block
- Proxy Advice

Lately she did a testing for the In-Progress Revision. (The biggest problem with DW, in my opinion. IP classes pushed completed courses out of a rule making the audit inaccurate.) I'm glad to report that it went well and we might see this resolved in the next patch.

I hope for her to chime in on this blog from time to time.