QSO Party issues: "Our #" field crashes app, Location inaccessible

Yesterday I participated in the VA QSO party (new ham, first ever QSO party). I didn’t even know then that Polo had added experimental QSO support, so I quick logged on paper. When I found the QSO party support, I put my logs after the fact into Polo. However, When I put 2 in the “Our #” field to log the sequence number for the second QSO after the fact, then pressed save, the app crashed. I was only able to add my QSOs by leaving the “Our #” set to 1 each time.

Also, the “Location” field is hidden under the add-to-log button.

I am running Polo on a Google Pixel 9. I joined the beta program, so I should be able to test any beta builds for fixes. :crossed_fingers:

It will be too late for this year’s VAQP, but I’d love your help ironing out all these details for the rest of the QPs.

Could you share a screenshot showing what you mean by:

Also, the “Location” field is hidden under the add-to-log button."

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Fortunately, I’m not really contesting with only five QSOs, just adding 1 to a few others stations’ totals, so I can still test editing my logs for those QSOs to add my own contest serial numbers. :sunglasses:

Ah, I see. Yeah, when the screen is that small, and you enable an activity like VAQP that requires two extra fields, PoLo should be automatically hiding the RST fields.

I’ll add this to the list of things to fix.

In the meantime, you can hide those fields manually, using the “…” menu on the top right corner.

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I hadn’t thought of hiding RST… If you hide them automatically, could you preferentially hide Sent? I heard a few real RSTs (not perfunctory 599) being sent in that QSO party. :thinking:

Maybe use multiple rows to show all the fields when editing a QSO vs. a single line when entering a new QSO?

You can tap on the “More” button (with the pencil icon) on the secondary controls row (where time, frequency, p2p, etc are) and edit all the QSO fields there.

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Ah, including “Our Info / Exchange”

When I edit them, the “Our Info / Exchange” doesn’t show up in the “Our #” box:

Just to be clear: both those screenshots are with the correct “Our Info / Exchange” saved, after re-opening Polo.

I blame ADIF. Sigh.

The exchange field you see on that screen is for STX_STRING, where as a number-only contest exchange goes in the STX field.

I guess that now that we have contests with numbers, I need to include that in the “Edit QSO” screen.

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