Catobase Issues (w/ solutions)

[gcsii99]

I've had some problems with Catobase v6.0.0 and had not been able to generate html for most of my leagues, (which caused me to not play ootp). However, I finally got some time to tinker with .csv files, access and catobase and found some workaround solutions to my problems. If you are having the same issues, hopefully this will help you and maybe the problems can be fixed in a future patch.

1) In my solo fictional league, I was able to generate the pages but 2 players from my team were showing up on other teams and were also shown as being traded. For the longest time I had no idea how to fix this as in OOTP they were clearly shown as still being on my team. After looking through the ltrans.html file that ootp generates I noticed that I had removed both players from the trading block on the same day that 2 computer teams had made a trade (at the bottom of the day's transaction said "XXXX was removed...) It would seem that catobase has a problem parsing this line and added my players to that trade. Editing the ltrans.html file by deleting the trading block lines and running catobase again completely fixed this.

2) This is a simple one and may have been discovered already. I was getting a run error 76 "path not found". This is due to having an invalid entry listed for the "data directory" in options. Catobase doesn't make new (base) directories so whatever you put here needs to exist already.

3) In a file from an online league, the Catobase kept reporting a problem in the teams.csv file. Turns out that nicknames marked with " " in the manager fields was trouble. This could be avoided by not putting quotation marks in the manager field, or like I did editing, the teams.csv file to remove them, and then re-run Catobase without running exporter.

Hope that helps someone, and thanx for a great program Cato!