Is there a macro for ..

[Annie & PB]

... how many finds on your hides? I have seen that some people have got in their profiles info about their own hides and who found them, how often and so forth.

Annie

[rediguana]

Is this a GSAK question? If so, I'll move it to the GSAK forum

[Annie & PB]

Hmm yea - I guess it is. I almost never go to any other forum, so apologies for sticking it in the wrong one!

Thanks
Annie

[rediguana]

No worries - just trying to put all the GSAK specific stuff in one place to make it easier to browse.

I'm not at my computer with GSAK right now, but I think in the options there is a section that you can select to add the owner info. I assume you're running a fairly recent version of the FindStats macro?

[Annie & PB]

The latest version of GSAK - 7.2.4.14 and FindStatGen34Beta macro -- both updated earlier today.

Will go and check out all the options again.

Annie

[Papa Bear_Left]

A related facility is Prime's Excellent Script that shows you the totals by log type on each cache page as you view it.
http://gmscripts.locusprime.net/Totals_By_Log_Type.html
Nice to get an idea of popularity and number of DNFs and such on a cache as you're browsing for caches to find in an area.

(You need the FireFox browser and the Greasemonkey extension, but these scripts make it worth switching, even if the other benefits of FF haven't tempted you!)

[Kiwi Moose]

Using GSAK and that lovely FindStatGen3 macro mentioned above, you will want to start the Macro and click the "Options" button. Once in there, on the right hand side is a list of things you can have displayed - the one you want is called "Placed". (It used to be a separate macro but now it's all part of the same macro). Let it run and see what it gets you.

Alastair

[Annie & PB]

Well, what do you know! I must have read through those options about 10 times today, and then a few more times after Rediguana's suggestion, but I didn't see the 'Placed' option till now.

It kind of works. But it only give 3-5 finds for each of our caches when I know for sure that some of them have had over 20 finds...... so something is not quite right there. Any suggestions??

The database I'm using for our placed caches is from a bookmark list as I could not see any other way to get our archived caches included.

Annie

[Kiwi Moose]

For your archived caches, go to the cache listing on the GC.com site and click on the "GPX Exchange File" button near the top of the listing - this will download the full logs from the site into GSAK (if GSAK is registered n your machines properly) - use this to make sure that the logs in your database are up to date for your archived caches (and for any other caches you think are missing logs) - after that, you could make a pocket query of just your finds and import that once per week. See if that helps.

Alastair

[Annie & PB]

(You need the FireFox browser and the Greasemonkey extension, but these scripts make it worth switching, even if the other benefits of FF haven't tempted you!)

Yes -- I've often had it mentioned that FF is better than IE. I'm pretty computer illiterate though, so I stick with what I know!

(I didn't even get what a macro was until Kiwi Moose explained in words of one syllable a few months back! )

[Annie & PB]

For your archived caches, go to the cache listing on the GC.com site and click on the "GPX Exchange File" button near the top of the listing - this will download the full logs from the site into GSAK (if GSAK is registered n your machines properly) - use this to make sure that the logs in your database are up to date for your archived caches (and for any other caches you think are missing logs) - after that, you could make a pocket query of just your finds and import that once per week. See if that helps.

Alastair

Thanks!!!
Seems like that is going to work. I've done a couple and those ones seem to have the right number of logs when I run the marco. But it looks like all our caches are missing logs, so I will have to go through each one individually and do that.

Annie

[rediguana]

For your archived caches, go to the cache listing on the GC.com site and click on the "GPX Exchange File" button near the top of the listing - this will download the full logs from the site

Ah - so that is how you can get all logs for a cache if you've missed some via PQs? Nice

[GSVNoFixedAbode]

Ah dangit, I'm really going to have to upgrade GSAK from v6 and pay the extra $$. I've been putting it off for too long but the extra goodies in v7+ may finally force me.

[Kiwi_Explorer]

I find GSAK really good for generating the found and placed stats. I'm running V 7.2.3.35 and FindStatGen3 macro V3.2.16 I also found not all of the logs on my caches were there. What I did was used the macro called AddLogs V1.38 - you need to do this for each of your caches just highlight each one before running the macro and then it will add the missing logs. You just need to do it once for each one and then a weekly refresh will add any new ones.

The other really cool macro that I have finally got working on GSAK is PPC_CacheMateLog2 - great if you use a pda with CacheMate on it - you can do a few caches while on holiday, write the logs as you go or each evening and then copy and paste then quickly (not quite a full import) back to GC.com Doing this I can come back from a holiday or an away caching weekend and log 80-90 caches in around 30-40 minutes.

[Annie & PB]

The other really cool macro that I have finally got working on GSAK is PPC_CacheMateLog2 - great if you use a pda with CacheMate on it - you can do a few caches while on holiday, write the logs as you go or each evening and then copy and paste then quickly (not quite a full import) back to GC.com Doing this I can come back from a holiday or an away caching weekend and log 80-90 caches in around 30-40 minutes.

Now THIS one I really need to learn how to do. Took me three nights to log the 70something caches we did last weekend. So it's going to take approximately forever to do the logs if we go to the NI for two weeks in Feb! Can you explain the steps you take in a bit more detail??

Annie