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



GEMS ver 1.17.17

Exception Text:
Internal Error:
File: BalEdit.cpp, Line 863, Date Oct 12, 2001

I guess I will have to go buy my own pint this time around.

Mark

At 1/21/2002 11:36 AM, you wrote:
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
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