We are working on transferring the Trip Report Sticky. During the transfer process, it would be a good time to make changes to the format. So, if you have any suggestions, please let me know and they will be taken into consideration.

Basically, I like the current format. Adding tags for visited states would be nice.Some of the links to my reports have problems: My 2011 TC Heaven trip says something about being stored on Cloudflare Huh? A forum thing? Certainly not where I put it.The link for my 2008 drive along South Coast Ridge Road works initially, but the picasaweb link embedded into my post no long works. I am still mad at Google for taking away Picasaweb.... My post is apparently not editable, so even if I reconstructed that TR the link to it could not be posted.Probably these two trips should be deleted from the sticky. So much TR prep work, eaten by technological change.Thanks for all of the work that you and others do to keep this TR sticky alive.

If it is possible it would be nice to have a list of the most recent TR's at the beginning , maybe 6 or 12 months worth before they are absorbed into the general format .A big thanks to all who created , maintained and contributed to this sticky .

ticki2 wrote:A big thanks to all who created , maintained and contributed to this sticky .x2 (or more) to that!

Steve has arranged all the trip reports chronologically by geography/contributor...Given enough time, a new top page (thread) could include trip reports sorted by recent date only (this will rotate out say by oldest, every month, to seed a geographically titled chronology?).The issue may be: 2 sections must be maintained: the geographically relevant sections, and the top page chronological listing....a bit more work (12 rotational JCL instances per year, if you will)...

The recent trips reports in the top or second post is probably workable and easily done.I have some other ideas too, but I need to make sure it's easy to maintain. I figure I will only have it for a few years and need to make sure the next volunteer can easily keep it going.The idea is to improve upon what is being handed over to me, not re-inventing the wheel as I think the current organization works well. Keep the ideas coming, I like what I've heard so far.

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Naio
Explorer II
Apr 22, 2017
Looks good! Including dtates, not just regions, looks very useful.

How will you list the authors who only ever wrote one TR? The current setup, grouping them by location, seems ok to me.

Obviously, the most user friendly way to go would be to have a table where we could click to sort all the TRs by date, state, author, etc... but I assume that would be too hard to set up!
kohldad
Explorer III
Apr 22, 2017
Obviously, the most user friendly way to go would be to have a table where we could click to sort all the TRs by date, state, author, etc... but I assume that would be too hard to set up!

Funny you should mention that because I'm working on an excel file that will allow just that type of sorting. One will be able to filter and sort by any column. Only downside is I need a place to host the file and one would have to download it before using it.

Found a way to automate grabbing a lot of the data yesterday only to discover there are over 800 trip reports! Of those, about 150 of have broken because of a change in the directory structure. Those will be fixed when the new TR sticky comes out sometime in May. Still have a lot of data manipulation to do but it's progressing nicely.
kohldad
Explorer III
Apr 27, 2017
Some of y'all probably noticed I have started the Truck Camper Trip Report using the same format as before. After looking at options and time to implement, they were going to take at least 400 hours of effort. I decided the gain wasn't worth the pain so left it as before.

I did add the recent trip report section as that was easy to add and maintain.
c_traveler2
Nomad
May 02, 2017
kohldad, I've tried to PM you with new links for my 2015 Summer Journey series and it just disappears, there is no indentation that they have been sent to you or you have received them. this is day 2 trying this.
Naio
Explorer II
May 02, 2017
kohldad wrote:
Some of y'all probably noticed I have started the Truck Camper Trip Report using the same format as before. After looking at options and time to implement, they were going to take at least 400 hours of effort. I decided the gain wasn't worth the pain so left it as before.

ISTR the last person said the same thing when they started.

Thank you so much for doing this job! It is invaluable. I don't think you will ever hear any of us complain about how you choose to do it. We are grateful.

I did add the recent trip report section as that was easy to add and maintain.

Cool!!!

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