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RE: Ballot generation - GEMS Exception (EB for the rookie?)

GEMS exceptions are always bugs, so post them to bugtrack.  You didn't mention GEMS version.  Also, try to quote the exception error in the text of your post -- its hard to do a search on a picture. 
 
Under 1.17.20ish, this exception is triggered when GEMS has a ballot rotation, but has no matching ballot style.  That "can't happen", so GEMS lets us know something is amis.
 
If you have a sequence to reproduce the problem, we'll try to track it down.  There was nothing "wrong" with what you did -- putting a header on the back of the ballot is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
 
Sorry no EB.  You gotta bring down GEMS for that.
 
Ken
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Mark S Earley
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:21 AM
To: Support
Subject: Ballot generation - GEMS Exception (EB for the rookie?)

This maybe should go to bugtrack, but it is late and this is safer...

I was programming a very small election. I had generated ballots several times with no probs. Then added the "Account" header (database attached) and set it to appear on the back of the ballot in column 1. I had also linked it to race 10 to bring it onto the ballot automatically. Maybe not the best thing to do, but I'm a rookie. (And do not ask me what I am doing next week and the next two months.)

Upon generating ballots, I got a GEMS exception error. Here is a capture of the Exception window to prove it. I immediately captured the exception screen and backed up the database. The exception was very repeatable then, but now upon reloading the gbf and regenerating the EID before regenerating ballot artwork, I get no exception.



Maybe does not qualify as a "hard crash", but I tried.

Now, about that EB (that's "earned beer" to you rookies)...

Mark - finally smiling after a crappy week. Good night.

-Mark S Earley
Support Services Specialist
Global Election Systems
850 422-2100 office
850 322-3226 cell