Maintainer Tools

I did a search for "Maintainer Tools" and only come up with this Thread.

If there are tools for those who maintain files, I would like to know where they all are. I have a few like Extra POI Editor, but would love to have more.

In particular, I was having a problem loading the Sear's Auto Centers POI file (POILoader would flag it as invalid and ask if I wanted to continue) and would have liked a tool that would have told me what the problem was. I finally did a visual scan of the CSV file and found 4 errors which I corrected by hand and finally loaded the file successfully.

I happen to run across a thread about "POI Verifier" which was a tool created by a member that I think he offered for a price (which seemed OK to me, but a lot of members chided him for). Reading the thread on his withdrawal of this tool, I got the impression that he had posted it (for a while at least) on a site and said it was free for the taking. The site no longer is active. I wonder if anyone downloaded it and still have a copy.

For the novices out here, can you explain what the maintainer tools are and where we can find them.

If you have created a POI file, the Maintainer Tools show up when you go to that particular POI file.

Just shows how observant (or not) I am. I created a POI file but had never gone to look at it (since I already had it on my unit).

Now, how can I get the "check for problems" tool so that I can use it when some POI I have downloaded fails to load?

The tools allow you to check the files you are responsible for, not a file posted by someone else. Those type of problems you report to the file maintainer and it is up to them to fix their file.

a-user,
I agree with your comment. Indeed, I have been reporting errors that I find in files to the maintainer or to Miss Poi. I will continue to do so in order that the files will be the most usable and reliable that all of us can collectively make them.

However, when I run into a file that will not load at all, it puts me in the position of having to later redo ALL the loads as I want to have my own category schemes. Were this several years ago, I would probably have paid to get a version of POI Verifier so that I would not have to go without any files that POILoader reported as invalid. I assume that, with POI Verifier, I could have determined the error(s), corrected the problem to my satisfaction, and also reported the error(s) to the maintainer.

If you are a maintainer:

Go to "My Account"

Under "Maintainer of these POI files:"

click one file

See "Maintainer Tools"

click "search/add/edit"

or

click "Check for problems"

Also - under the upper Edit Tab

You can replace with an updated file....

Easy to use.

I think that all files uploaded here are run through POI verifier.

EDIT: Actually, I guess it would only be the CSV files...

The reason I was looking for the POI Verifier tool was that I got a POILoader error using a .csv file downloaded directly from POI factory. I located the errors and notified Miss POI; the errors were corrected.

Obviously, all files are not run through POI verifier.

Now the question is, who should have run it through POIVerifier?

I don't think all poi's are run through poi verifier as not eveyone purchased it form RT when he had it up on his site. I use a couple of differnt ways and am now strating to use turboo's program.

I remember discussion awhile back about Retired Technician giving a version to Miss POI for POI uploads. This would probably explain the Unusable Records that show up on some POI download pages?