[gradebook2-dev] a serious issue : new item added by assignment tool to weighted category in GB2, causes the student info. screen part blank in instructor view and bug report in catalina.out

[Thomas Amsler]

If you cannot find an existing JIRA, just create a new one, and please
add all of this information.

Thank you.

Best,
--Thomas

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Kim Huang <kimhuang at oit.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Folks,
>
> Please look at the attachment for the screen shots of the problem. I list the steps to reproduce it.
>
> The current behavior of GB2 is:
>
> When the new item is added by external tool, such as assignment, you can choose to add it to certain category in GB2 from assignment tool page.
> >From GB2 display, if the category is the weighted category and the checkbox of "weight equally" is checked, new item is shown as 0 point in that category, the right part of student info. screen is missing.(bug report is thrown.)
>
> The correct way should be:
> GB2 recalculates the values of all the items within the weighted category since the new item is added.
> or there is a message to indicate user that you should not add the pointed item to the weighted category.
>
>
> More:
> GB2 doesn't have problem to do the redistribution if the new item is added within GB2.
> ----------------------------------------
> I tried to search on jira to find out whether this problem has been reported in the past. No luck.
> Do you have better way to search the existing issue on jira ? It is pretty unfriendly to me.
>
> -----
> reproduce:
>
> Add GB2 and Assignments to a site.
> Set GB2 to use weighted categories, check the weight item equally checkbox.
> Add a few items to the category (make them 10 points each).
>
> Go to Assignments and create a new assignment. Set it to send grades to gradebook and choose the weighted category. Post it.
>
> When you switch back to GB2, you will see the problem.
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