Anyone else having trouble with the Diet Tracker?

[tmilam]

I'm having a lot of problems with the diet tracker working like it is supposed to over the past couple of days. Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, how can it be corrected?

[jlphillips]

I started having problems today as well. Doesnt matter if I'm using IE or Firefox...still having problems removing/changing items....didnt realize how much i depend on it until it stops working right...

[gordi]

I hope that someone can get it up and running soon, it's a really useful tool.

[tmilam]

still no worky!! I'm actually going to have to write this all down on paper.

[neoborn]

I tried this out today and gave it a good ten minutes trial I think there are definite improvments needed.

[Ari Gold]

I just saw this thread, will look into the issues and fix them ASAP. Next time if you want us to see something right away send a PM or something, not a thread in the Nutrition forum.

[Ari Gold]

Fixed! Please check it out and let me know if you have any more problems.

[gordi]

Thank you! Now I can get my diet back on track...

[neoborn]

ok how about a complete rewrite of the search algorithym? :P I typed in Rice I think it was a got a whole load of babyfood suggestions.....lol

I think if I put in ground beef in any order I should at least get all hits with entries that contain "beef & ground" in them

[Ari Gold]

We found 127 results that matched "rice".

It only shows 15 results per page, you have to click through the pages to find what you need, or be more specific in your search. Every result it shows has the word rice in it's name.

[neoborn]

I understand this maybe a little out of scope but the search sucks or at least the way it searches sucks. The problem is that when I put in "rice" the results that are in results 46 - 60 should be on page one. I mean really I'm not looking for babyfood WITH rice etc but most like rice. I am pretty sure you guys didn't program the search engine used for this so not much we can do about it.

If I enter 'Rice' the first entry returned should not be

Babyfood > jalepeno peppers and rice flavour

but

Rice

Rice > Long Grain > Raw

etc

I did some testing and it appears being much more specific is better.....or just browsing / custom. I guess the problem lies in single keyword searches. The reason this is a problem to me is because the engine makes me conform to it, not the other way round. It should serve me not, that I have to give it everything it needs before it will help me. Anyway....just my 2c

[Ari Gold]

I'll see what I can do, but remember, we're not Google. Will try my best. Relevancy is a matter of personal opinion. What may seem most relevant to you, may not be what seems most relevant to someone else. Granted, no one is probably looking for baby food containing rice when they search for rice, but you get my point.

I understand this maybe a little out of scope but the search sucks or at least the way it searches sucks. The problem is that when I put in "rice" the results that are in results 46 - 60 should be on page one. I mean really I'm not looking for babyfood WITH rice etc but most like rice. I am pretty sure you guys didn't program the search engine used for this so not much we can do about it.

If I enter 'Rice' the first entry returned should not be

Babyfood > jalepeno peppers and rice flavour

but

Rice

Rice > Long Grain > Raw

etc

anyhoo....just saying

[neoborn]

I do. Thanks for the feedback.

[Ari Gold]

Try your search for rice again... That should be at least a LITTLE better / relevant. If I can get it any better, I will. But this should help a bit.

[tmilam]

Thanks Costanza. I understand that it would have been better to send you guys a pm instead of starting a thread in the nutrition forum and that's exactly what I did. I received no direct response from AM, but was thrilled to see you guys went the extra mile to get it running smoothly again as of today. Thanks, again.

[gordi]

Would it be possible to add in some current bodybuilding favourites like greens powder and various protein powders? I don't mind addding them as custom foods, it's fun and easy... but the system doesn't like it when I try to enter fractional amounts, and that makes it hard to enter some of the vitamin and mineral values and other details. Since this tracker will let me know about my vitamin intake, I'd be happy if it counted my greens.

[Ari Gold]

Working on allowing fractional values, will update here when thats done!

[Dwight Schrute]

I received no direct response from AM,

Who did you PM?

[gordi]

Working on allowing fractional values, will update here when thats done!

Thank you! That will make customising much easier.

Also, thank you for inventing the rubber band. Those really come in handy sometimes.

[Ari Gold]

You're slightly confused. We didn't invent the rubber band, it was the paper clip.