Tristan
2003-09-22 21:20:10 |
problem with submitting
I was finished typing up a problem I wanted to submit and I pressed the preview button. A notice appeared saying I had to be logged on to submit, which I thought I was, but I typed it in anyway. Afterwards, I went to the problem submitting screen, but it was blank, with a blank preview on top. I checked to see if it was already in queue by trying to edit my puzzles, but it said I hadn't submitted any. What happened? Before I try typing it again I'd like to know a few things. To what extent can we edit puzzles already submitted? Is there anyway to save a draft without it going into queue? If there isn't, maybe there should be. Though, I suppose that I could save it on a document and paste it on later... |
DJ
2003-09-22 23:29:14 |
Re: problem with submitting
If you thought you were logged in, but it turned out that you weren't, I would guess that there's a problem with your browser settings in accepting cookies. Make sure that cookies are enabled, and try it again.. and if you ever get a message that implies that you're not logged on, you probably aren't. As a student, once you have submitted a problem, you can edit its text and difficulty, but not the category. There's no way to save a draft.. I usually just type my probelms up in notepad and submit the completed version. That way, too, if something goes wrong, all my work isn't lost. Hope this helps.
=) |
Tristan
2003-09-23 20:05:07 |
Re: problem with submitting
I'm not sure what happened the first time, but the second time I tried, the preview worked and nothing disappeared. I'm pretty sure that my browser is accepting cookies. Maybe the internet temporarily disconnected on me? I hope it doesn't happen again, but I'll write my puzzles somewhere else first anyway.
Anyway, I still didn't post my puzzle because I couldn't figure out how to put large spaces in it. They just wouldn't appear on the preview. Coincidently, someone using the same name as mine seemed to have a similar problem and posted it on the chatterbox. Unfortunately, he seemed to have figured it out and only said that it was like html, and I'm not sure what he meant. |
Gamer
2003-09-23 20:11:01 |
Re: problem with submitting
Writing the phrase (br) but using a less than sign at the beginning and a greater than sign at the end of the br instead of paretheses will give a break, like you pressed return. :)
Two enters. :) |
Gamer
2003-09-23 20:11:46 |
Re: problem with submitting
Unfortunately you can't do it here apparently because it recognizes html codes |
Charlie
2003-09-23 21:09:42 |
Re: problem with submitting
The major problem, which you are probably having (or had), is/was that when you are logged on, and don't do send anything back to the site (such as when the only thing you are doing is typing the submission into the text box), there is a time limit after which you are automatically logged out. The site doesn't actually push a new screen at you when this happens; it just says you're not logged on the next time you press a button, such as Preview or Submit.
One solution as mentioned above is to type your text into notepad and transfer to the flooble text box with a copy and paste, so if anything goes wrong you can do that again.
Another solution is, before you hit the review or submit button, highlight the whole text in the text box and put the text onto the clipboard via Edit...Copy, or cntrl-C, or the old-fashioned way: cntl-insert. Then if something bad happens you can log on again and paste the text in since its still on the clipboars (edit...paste, cntrl-V or shift-insert). |
levik
2003-09-24 07:34:35 |
Re: problem with submitting
One way I believe you can I avoid being kicekd out like this is by clicking "remember me" on the login form when you first sign in. It's kept me logged in for months. |
Tristan
2003-09-24 20:03:53 |
Re: problem with submitting
I think that Charlie is right. Someone needed to use the computer urgently while I was in the middle of typing. That was probably enough time for me to log out. Thanks for the help. |
DJ
2003-09-25 18:12:58 |
Re: problem with submitting
I've never been automatically timed out or logged out, after weeks and months, let alone a few minutes, so make sure you have the 'remember me' box checked (if it's on your own computer). Also, editing in notepad or copying the text or any of the other suggestions are good safeguards.
Anyway, as far as formatting, you can't just push enter for a line break like you can in here or in comments. You have to type in <p> for a paragraph (two lines) or <br> for a single line break.
For example, typing:
something here<br>something else<br>another something<p>finally this
will show up as:
something here
something else
another something
finally this
Hope that helps. |
