RE: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length

["Ken Clark" <ken@gesn.com>]

No, there isn't really any easy way to get that.  You can expand the
BallotStyle tree item, select the Card Style tab, and then step through the
ballot style tree with the down-arrow.  The ballots with two cards will
stand out pretty well.  Even for a few hundred ballot styles I wouldn't
characterize it as "very time consuming", but tedious it is.  We'll look
into adding number of cards per ballot on the list views and reports.  That
should help.  This will probably have to be a 1.19 thing though.

If you are trying to find out the number of 18" ballots (as opposed to two
card ballots), that is pretty easy.  Select the Card tree item to see the
list of all cards, then click on the "Length" field header to sort by
length.

Ken



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
> Karen Rhea
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:24 PM
> To: support@gesn.com
> Subject: Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length
>
>
> Sorry, Ken. I didn't phrase that well - new post jitters. I am
> looking for a
> way to determine when a style or set of contests spills over to a second
> card. Fresno is trying (unsuccessfully) to stay at a 14" card. For ballot
> production reasons we need to know the percentage of 14" vs. 18" cards. I
> stepped through the ballot styles and came up with a number. However, this
> was very time consuming and still did not get us all of the info
> we wanted,
> i.e. report prec's. by party coming in at 18". Any suggestions re:
> shortcuts?
> -k-
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Clark" <kwclark71@yahoo.com>
> To: <support@gesn.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length
>
>
> > Not as such.
> >
> > If you have a race that is too big to lay out in a
> > column of its own, then the whole ballot currently
> > fails to lay out.  I think one/some of the ballot
> > reports will show which are laid out and which are
> > not, but its not to my knowledge ever worth actually
> > printing the report for this purpose. Its usually
> > (read, always) pretty obvious which race is causing
> > grief.  In the ballot list view you can click on the
> > status field to sort out those that failed to lay out,
> > and then look at the list of races on those ballots.
> >
> > I would like it if paper layout acted like AVTS layout
> > and split the race text into the next column if it
> > doesn't fit.  This was the original GEMS design.  In
> > the real world no one seems to actually want that
> > however, and would change the number of columns to
> > make it fit anyway, so it has never happened.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> > --- Karen Rhea <krhea@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > > Is there an existing GEMS report which lists styles
> > > where contests exceed the front/back of the selected
> > > card length?
> > > -karen-
> > >
> >
> >
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