Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length

[Karen Rhea <krhea@pacbell.net>]

Thanks, Ken.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Clark" <ken@gesn.com>
To: <support@gesn.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length


> No, there isn't really any easy way to get that.  You can expand the
> BallotStyle tree item, select the Card Style tab, and then step through
the
> ballot style tree with the down-arrow.  The ballots with two cards will
> stand out pretty well.  Even for a few hundred ballot styles I wouldn't
> characterize it as "very time consuming", but tedious it is.  We'll look
> into adding number of cards per ballot on the list views and reports.
That
> should help.  This will probably have to be a 1.19 thing though.
>
> If you are trying to find out the number of 18" ballots (as opposed to two
> card ballots), that is pretty easy.  Select the Card tree item to see the
> list of all cards, then click on the "Length" field header to sort by
> length.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
> > Karen Rhea
> > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:24 PM
> > To: support@gesn.com
> > Subject: Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length
> >
> >
> > Sorry, Ken. I didn't phrase that well - new post jitters. I am
> > looking for a
> > way to determine when a style or set of contests spills over to a second
> > card. Fresno is trying (unsuccessfully) to stay at a 14" card. For
ballot
> > production reasons we need to know the percentage of 14" vs. 18" cards.
I
> > stepped through the ballot styles and came up with a number. However,
this
> > was very time consuming and still did not get us all of the info
> > we wanted,
> > i.e. report prec's. by party coming in at 18". Any suggestions re:
> > shortcuts?
> > -k-
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ken Clark" <kwclark71@yahoo.com>
> > To: <support@gesn.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length
> >
> >
> > > Not as such.
> > >
> > > If you have a race that is too big to lay out in a
> > > column of its own, then the whole ballot currently
> > > fails to lay out.  I think one/some of the ballot
> > > reports will show which are laid out and which are
> > > not, but its not to my knowledge ever worth actually
> > > printing the report for this purpose. Its usually
> > > (read, always) pretty obvious which race is causing
> > > grief.  In the ballot list view you can click on the
> > > status field to sort out those that failed to lay out,
> > > and then look at the list of races on those ballots.
> > >
> > > I would like it if paper layout acted like AVTS layout
> > > and split the race text into the next column if it
> > > doesn't fit.  This was the original GEMS design.  In
> > > the real world no one seems to actually want that
> > > however, and would change the number of columns to
> > > make it fit anyway, so it has never happened.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Karen Rhea <krhea@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > > > Is there an existing GEMS report which lists styles
> > > > where contests exceed the front/back of the selected
> > > > card length?
> > > > -karen-
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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