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Re: Santa Fe Super Chief Train Engine Registry
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:27:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
> In lugnet.announce, James Trobaugh writes:
> > You can visit the registry at:
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> > http://www.ngltc.org/sfregistry.htm
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> Great job, well done. Some constructive criticism:
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> Some of the fields look a bit cramp to me. Approximately how many characters
> are available for "Owner Name" before the tail is visualy cut off in the list?
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> "Country" seems to be a little short also, are we supposed to fill in the
> official international abbreviations for country names? For instance: GB for
> Great Brittan, F for France, G for Germany, NL for The Netherlands?
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> To keep the list neat and tidy, I believe you should provide some more
> formatting instructions for the users on your site.
> I'm thinking about: Skip the character when you fill in the "Sequence
> Number", the "Country" and what to do with "State/Provence" in case you're
> from outside Australia, USA, Canada and other massive states, should we
> leave the field blank or fill in a code meaning "does not apply here" ?
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> With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
Well the updating of the list will be a manual process at this point, so
I'll handle the formatting of the data once it arrives (for now). As this
project takes off I'll probally be adding more of an automated process and
will make the fields a bit more intuitive as the days go by.
I don't know about skipping the character at this point, we don't know
really what the number sceme will be, so the character might be an important
part of the unique number. I figure that more information will be better
than less.
As for the countries, I plan on adding a combo box with country selection to
keep it simple and to keep it consistant.
Thanks for the input, I'll put it all to go use as the week goes on....and I
have time.
jt
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| (...) Hey JT- As I was building an 8 wide version of the Super Chief, I got to thinking-- since my sets will be kit-bashed-- maybe it would be fun to include a place on the registry as to when the particular SC in question got scrapped:-) -John (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief Train Engine Registry
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| (...) Some of the fields look a bit cramp to me. Approximately how many characters are available for "Owner Name" before the tail is visualy cut off in the list? "Country" seems to be a little short also, are we supposed to fill in the official (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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