{"id":148,"date":"2025-03-05T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-03-05T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:11:03","slug":"major-release-updates-march-5-2025-packs-and-judges-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/major-release-updates-march-5-2025-packs-and-judges-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Major release updates, March 5, 2025 – Packs and Judges Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doug has been working for several months on some enhancements and finally drew a circle around what he’d done so far and said “ship it.”\u00a0 If you’ve ever been a project manager, you know how… ‘risky’ it can be to tell a creator to go nuts without providing any kind of timeline or scope to rein them in.\u00a0 But we’re retired and Doug was having a lot of fun, so this did go on a bit, apologies for that. It’s here now!<\/p>\n

But what IS “it”?<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> If only we could remember all the changes (starting a change log tomorrow…)\u00a0 However, the big items are:<\/p>\n

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  1. We’ve added a log in\/account creation<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW:\u00a0 ANYBODY can do ANYTHING they HAVE been doing without creating an account!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 So you can search for a dog or a club or a trial, you can view and download reports, all the same.\u00a0 The only thing that isn’t the same is that your “recent” entries, those “last things I looked at” quicklinks that appear under the search bar will now only show up if you have a log in.\u00a0 This is a technical limitation, not an intention withholding on our part.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    WHY an account?<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Because it allows us to “remember” things across your visits to the site.\u00a0 In particular, it enables two things at this point.\u00a0 One is the creation of Packs, which I’ll explain in a minute.\u00a0 The other is that, with a verified email address, Judges will be able to retrieve reports on their own statistics.<\/p>\n

    Oh my gosh, I thought you said you weren’t going to report on individual judges!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0You are correct, I did say that.\u00a0 And we aren’t going to provide this information to competitors, I’m afraid<\/strong><\/em>, and I’m happy to discuss exactly why at another time.\u00a0 Although I really do expect that most judges are keeping detailed records of their own, compiling those may be a different story, as we know about Scent Work records in general and how easy it can be to forget to update your spreadsheet, essentially why we started this project.\u00a0 So these are nicely formatted compiled reports with Q rates per each class judged, alongside the average numbers for those classes from the database as a whole.\u00a0 In order to access these, a Judge will need to set up an account, and then request to be confirmed as a judge.\u00a0 We will manually (a human bean must be involved every time, that’s a feature, not a bug!<\/em>) compare the verified email address they provide against the one in the AKC Judges Directory, so a 2-step verification<\/em>, before giving them the ability to generate their own report.<\/p>\n

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    Okay, so I’m not a judge, what have you done for *me* lately?<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Well, not as much as we had hoped.\u00a0 This is “Part A” of something and we’re really going to need your help for “Part B.”\u00a0 \u00a0We’re calling what we have for you “Packs.”<\/strong>\u00a0 Packs are groupings of dogs for whom you can run reports en masse.<\/p>\n

    Why would I want to run reports for groups of dogs?<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Well, the thinking goes like this:\u00a0 if you set yourself up with an account, you can create three different types of Packs:<\/p>\n