AP Elections Reader Release Notes

2.0.0.59

• fix a problem getting custom topicID for the delegates report

2.0.0.58

• use a user agent header - was suddenly getting 403 errors without one

2.0.0.57

• fix the offices for amendments

2.0.0.56

• fix a problem when an amendment's short name is too long and a defect in the truncation code

2.0.0.55

• instead of ignoring results when test data is disabled (prior to election day), update results based on the test data parameter

2.0.0.54

• add support for president report

2.0.0.53

• refactoring including removing hubClause

• add support for auditing existing election events

• change how we define office and area for electoral college

• add the contest type of electory college for presidential contest

• for primaries that are single party, format the type to be "<party> Primary"

2.0.0.52

• show a message after running the trend report and delegate tests in the AP tab

• update the lastModified for trend and delegate reports

2.0.0.51

• for chameleon databases that have the elc_contest_tag (version 16/8/4/5 and greater), add contest tags for officename, seatname and party

2.0.0.50

• support for contest type from the feed- add territories to list of states

• remove the SingleApplication call

• add support for contest type from the feed

2.0.0.49

• add support for checking whether the election is fine in the events tab

2.0.0.48

• make the switching between seconds and minutes of the data interval smarter

2.0.0.47

• fix trend reports for v3 api

• escape election events when inserting with MySQL

• make the trend and delegate reports test buttons only available when the reader is paused

2.0.0.46

• make improvements when adding election events

2.0.0.45

• don't add election events if there is no data yet

• don't duplicate election events if an election event has been added with county level but is later added without (or vice versa)

2.0.0.44

• fixed a problem where a string wasn't escaped when forming a mysql command when creating an area

2.0.0.43

• fix the delegate count report for the v3 api

2.0.0.42

• fix agent status when resolution of time interval is seconds

• fix a bug where election events continue to be read even if the event has been deleted

• move to .net 4.7.2

2.0.0.41

• remove whitespace from apikey when entered

2.0.0.40

• move apikey into a header instead of a param - required going forward because AP is phasing out the api param

• show Add Event test in a dialog instead of in a browser

2.0.0.39

• make EEVP the default

2.0.0.38

• allow setting county level results when adding election events from the events tab

• improve keyboard tabbing for the events tab

2.0.0.37

• improvements to county level results (requires version)

• show params and county level results in election grid

• allow sorting of election grid by date

2.0.0.36

• for trend report custom topics, append a year to the topic name so we can keep older trend reports around

• label on AP page to describe EEVP and trend reports

2.0.0.35

• fix a problem with the seconds resolution support

• make the new votePercent (aka EEVP) optional

2.0.0.34

• support for seconds resolution for read interval of the feed

2.0.0.33

• use the v3 api

• support for Estimated Expected Total Votes (EEVP) for a contest which gets mapped to field elc_contest.votesPercent

2.0.0.32

• the trend reports changed format. fix made so we're able to read them again

2.0.0.31

• move to build 29 of mysql.data

2.0.0.30

• fix problem when deleting an election event in Flow, it doesn't recreate the election event unless you relaunch the reader

2.0.0.29

• wasn't naming election events correctly for party primaries

2.0.0.28

• added a Refresh Events button for getting the most recent list of election events instead of requiring a relaunch of the reader

2.0.0.27

• new installer project

• minor refactoring

2.0.0.26

• refactoring db code especially prepared statements

• improve logs

• don't hard code mysql port

2.0.0.25

• for trend report, makes the party field a text field. it was a number

• change the old deprecated test results parameter to resultsType=t

• clean up the use of test data

2.0.0.24

• write area codes as needed when creating new areas (used for fips codes)

2.0.0.23

• support for verbose logging showing AP api calls in the logs

2.0.0.22

• have the delegate report only show candidates with greater than 0 delegates

2.0.0.21

• fix a bug introduced in 2.0.0.18 related to content groups

2.0.0.20

• bug regarding using test data under some circumstances

2.0.0.19

• delegate report had a bug

2.0.0.18

• don't cache election events

2.0.0.17

• trend reports were hardcoded to a previous election instead of using the date in the reader's UI

• add support for delegates support

• fixed a bug regarding elected candidates

2.0.0.16

• update area short when reusing an area

• when no fipscode and level is fipscode, rename that reporting unit "extra"

2.0.0.15

• minor UI enhancements

• check for updates daily. not just on launch.

• support for FIPScodes

2.0.0.14

• more refactoring

• show parameter info in Add Event tab

2.0.0.13

• fix the check for updates link code to protect against a missing or bad url

• open logs directory menu item

• app.config change to do TSL right

• refactoring

2.0.0.12

• when adding new areas, use full area name

2.0.0.11

• wasn't checking for the manual field correctly

2.0.0.10

• support manual contest flag

• improve exception handling

2.0.0.9

• only mark a candidate elected if they have been previously unelected. never mark a candidate unelected

2.0.0.8

• support for trend reports

2.0.0.7

• the label in the Add Event tab said "Use commas between parameters". That was wrong. I changed it to "Use ampersands between parameters"

2.0.0.6

• hide historical election events on launch

• clean up how I set hubclause on launch

• improvements related to content groups

• cache election events that are for AP Elections Reader datasource only

2.0.0.5

• improvements to agent status

• status bar for showing check for updates

• content group support

2.0.0.4

• add support for only update if greater which allows manual and other datafeeds to work in conjunction with the AP Elections Reader

2.0.0.3

• for events that need multiple parameters to filter, use commas instead of & to avoid reading errors

2.0.0.2

• if election type of "General Election" doesn't exist, create it

2.0.0.1

• support for getting db info from url

• hide db port field

2.0.0.0

• multi-instance support

• moving from 1.x to 2.x will cause all persistants to be lost

• when adding new events, by default make the event type "General Election". If that event type is missing, it might cause problems.

1.0.0.32

• fix the check for candidateInfo=brief to have uppercase BRIEF due to changes to the AP feed

1.0.0.31

• reuse candidates now defaults to true

1.0.0.30

• when adding/reusing offices or areas, use datafeedChar so users can change the name without problems

1.0.0.29

• add support for electoral college for presidential elections during general election

1.0.0.28

• add support for optionally reusing existing candidates when populating an event

1.0.0.27

• add support for optionally reusing existing areas and offices when populating an event

1.0.0.26

• improvements to db setup including how prepared commands are setup

• use one big transaction instead of a transaction for each feed

• performance improvements when updating votes by caching the choice id

• performance improvements when updating polls

1.0.0.25

• use new contact us url

• have a dialog stating that the event has been added

1.0.0.24

• clear event and param when adding a manually entered event

1.0.0.23

• support for adding your own election events

1.0.0.22

• don't have the pause reset the clock

1.0.0.21

• replace enabled button with play/pause clock button

• DBInit only when needed

1.0.0.20

• candidate ids weren't unique enough causing some sharing of incorrect candidates

1.0.0.19

• have the max read interval be 600 seconds instead of 300

• improve how we BEGIN/COMMIT so it's per event instead of all events for one big transaction

• put the check for updates into the loading thread so we don't look like we're hung

1.0.0.18

• add support for filtering out historical election events

1.0.0.17

• add a timeout when reading available elections

• fix how test data is dealt with

1.0.0.16

• clean up unnecessary resources

• support for reporting units which breaks previously populated events making them unable to get results - repopulate events is required

• performance improvements due to transaction processing

• improvements on how propositions are dealt with

• support for runoffs

1.0.0.15

• rename tab Elections to Events

• make the default for Use Test Data true

• wasn't reading test data correctly

1.0.0.14

• fix the default password

1.0.0.13

• always default to the Other election type

• remove the "National" area logic

1.0.0.12

• fixed a problem where the parser might not recover graciously from a DB connect error

1.0.0.11

• use new readerutils.dll with cleaner interface to sourceID

• improved the logic to determine to attempt to read the feed

1.0.0.10

• add support for ReaderUtils to get the sourceID

1.0.0.9

• support for check for updates

1.0.0.8

• make 63 the new max length of elc_office.shortName

• changed the default db userid to Updater and include the default password

1.0.0.7

• fixed a bug when trying to test connection more than once during a single launch

• support for data source

• enabled button wasn't set correctly on launch when db connection hadn't been set

• default is now to have the datafeed enabled

1.0.0.6

• add Read Now button

• don't read the feed if the event isn't today and we're not using test data

1.0.0.5

• hide params in election grid

• force a vertical scroll bar

• set reasonable column widths for grid

• don't show the params for the available election combo

• protect against long strings for nameShort in elc_office,, elc_area and elc_party

• crashed when trying to delete an election from the grid when there were none

• support for test data

1.0.0.4

• show and allow changing datafeed timer

• intelligence on when to read datafeed based on election dates

• improvements to agent status

1.0.0.3

• prepare mysql commands for updating votes and polls

• stop using the standard offices file

• catch more exceptions

1.0.0.2

• release candidate

1.0.0.1

• wasn't saving persistant elections data in program data'