Results Portal
Posted: Fri, 18. Feb 2011 22:49
I recently discovered the new feature of Helga, namely the Results Portal (a.k.a. Helga WebRes).
As I'm currently developing the new VVO-website, I'm really interested how this feature works.
My current implementation is to upload Helga CSV-files on the website which will be parsed.
This way I can store the results in the database to perform some calculations with it (like automatically generated rankings for example).
Unfortunately, retrieving the Helga CSV-file from Helga is not really straightforward (results page -> export as excel -> save as csv).
Thus I was wondering if there's a way to retrieve the results from the Results Portal with the use of some sort of service.
If there's no such thing like this, I'm interested in supporting the Helga-team with such an implementation.
What I'm definitely not interested in is linking my users to the Results Portal, because this is confusing and most importantly I cannot do calculations with the results as they are physically somewhere else...
What I also noticed is that most people link to the Results Portal Overview page instead of linking to the specific results page of a competition directly.
I guess this is due to the fact that this website uses frames...
Most people just copy the link from the addressbox of the browser hoping to link other people to the results they are watching.
However, this isn't the case because the link is always the same (http://www.helga-o.com/webres).
Some time ago, I suggested an XML-export feature for the results (latest Helga lessons @ VVO Officenter by Robert M.).
Retreiving XML or JSON from a service could be a good implementation.
Hoping for a good cooperation.
Jochen Verdeyen
Drupal Web Developer
http://www.jover.be
As I'm currently developing the new VVO-website, I'm really interested how this feature works.
My current implementation is to upload Helga CSV-files on the website which will be parsed.
This way I can store the results in the database to perform some calculations with it (like automatically generated rankings for example).
Unfortunately, retrieving the Helga CSV-file from Helga is not really straightforward (results page -> export as excel -> save as csv).
Thus I was wondering if there's a way to retrieve the results from the Results Portal with the use of some sort of service.
If there's no such thing like this, I'm interested in supporting the Helga-team with such an implementation.
What I'm definitely not interested in is linking my users to the Results Portal, because this is confusing and most importantly I cannot do calculations with the results as they are physically somewhere else...
What I also noticed is that most people link to the Results Portal Overview page instead of linking to the specific results page of a competition directly.
I guess this is due to the fact that this website uses frames...
Most people just copy the link from the addressbox of the browser hoping to link other people to the results they are watching.
However, this isn't the case because the link is always the same (http://www.helga-o.com/webres).
Some time ago, I suggested an XML-export feature for the results (latest Helga lessons @ VVO Officenter by Robert M.).
Retreiving XML or JSON from a service could be a good implementation.
Hoping for a good cooperation.
Jochen Verdeyen
Drupal Web Developer
http://www.jover.be