QSL_VIA is the manager. QSL_SENT_VIA and QSL_RCVD_VIA are the ADIF "QSL Via"
enumeration — B bureau, D direct, E electronic, M manager (import-only) —
and say how a card travelled. OpsLog had one column for all three:
- the import folded QSL_SENT_VIA into QSL_VIA whenever QSL_VIA was empty,
which is exactly a Log4OM export (it defaults QSL_SENT_VIA to E), so
OE6CLD saw "E" everywhere OpsLog shows the manager;
- QSL_RCVD_VIA was listed in adifPromoted with no column behind it, so it
was not stored, not kept among the extras, and not exported — dropped
outright on import;
- neither was ever written on export, so an import followed by an export
destroyed both;
- and OpsLog polluted the field itself: the QSL Manager panel wrote
"Bureau" / "Direct" / "Electronic", in full words, into QSL_VIA.
Two columns added (migration 0027), carried through the five places a
promoted ADIF field has to touch, with round-trip tests pinning the reported
case. The QSL panel now offers Bureau / Direct / Electronic for each
direction and stores the enumeration; the manager field is labelled as the
manager and holds only that. M is kept when a file gives it and never
written back out.
Existing logs hold a mixture of the two in one column. The repair is offered,
not performed: the count is shown once per log with a plain question, and a
"no" is remembered. It moves only where QSL_SENT_VIA is still empty, and only
values that normalise to the enumeration — a manager is a callsign and can
never be one of those six words, which a test pins against real manager calls.
ADIF defines CNTY as "STATE,COUNTY" — "GA,BARROW". OpsLog wrote the bare county
name, which a receiving logger cannot resolve: county names repeat across
states, and there is a Washington County in thirty of them. The award engine
here was never affected, since it reads the columns rather than the ADIF; the
damage was to every file we hand to someone else.
One writer covers everything — writeRecord — so this fixes file exports and the
LoTW, Club Log, HRDLog and QRZ uploads together. MY_CNTY gets the same
treatment.
The county alone is still written when no state is known: a bare name is worth
more than nothing, and inventing a prefix would be worse than either. A value
that already carries a comma passes through untouched, so re-exporting an
imported record cannot double the prefix.
Import is the mirror: "GA,BARROW" fills both columns, and a file carrying the
bare county — as OpsLog's own older exports do — still imports unchanged. The
state parsed out of CNTY only fills a blank STATE, never overrides it: STATE is
the dedicated field and the more specific statement.
rouggy