Football LOS

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I've got the LOS registration form working great, passing it to a cfm file that transforms it to a pdf document so it prints out the same for everyone. It will also send an email to Bowman with the information in it to give him a jump start on the applications before they are mailed. I'm still having trouble on my mac though. It will only download the cfm file and then I have to choose 'open with' and pick adobe reader to open it. It's working great on Windows. I'm wondering if it's a brower set up issue.

I also ran into a weird error with the account lookup application. Joan got a call from someone with an Oracle error when attempting to run the application. It was working fine for me and it has been working perfectly for months. I had no idea what it could be. Mike Ross was able to run a debugger and sent me the code snippet where it was hung up, and I removed it. That made it all run through smooth, though why it would snag now and only for specific people is beyond me.

I've now got access as wtailor on woutst and wouprd to look into the pin reset option through banner. I guess the Registrar's office is not satisfied with the current set up. It currently requires the student to have set up a security question (and then remember the answer when they need to use it), and it seems most are not in this category. Therefore, it requires intervention on the part of someone in the Registrar's to reset their pin. Upon discussion with Bill, I've decided to have the student enter their username and vnumber and then email them their pin. If they can't remember their email password, they can go through the account lookup application. Therefore, that fully automates all steps and leaves the Registrar's office completely out of the loop. They should be happy with this setup.

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Since you mentioned accountlookup here...

Do you know if we can get an easier-to-read bot-foiling character gen? As I walk folks through the change that i a consistent bugger. Folks staring directly at the screen cannot determine what is and what is not a valid character.

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I know, but every time someone complains, I ask for an alternative security check and I have yet to get one back. Please, please, please send me suggestions!

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