Subj : tickit - AutoAreas for ALL areas?
To   : Mewcenary
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Mar 02 2022 17:00:38

  Re: tickit - AutoAreas for ALL areas?
  By: Mewcenary to Digital Man on Wed Mar 02 2022 06:40 pm

 >   Re: tickit - AutoAreas for ALL areas?
 >   By: Digital Man to Mewcenary on Wed Mar 02 2022 09:38 am
 >
 >  >> With the generated 'FIDONET_' prefix.
 >
 >  DM> Are you sure that's not the "internal code" you're looking at?
 >
 > Ah, yes, you are correct.
 >
 >  DM> In the latest Synchronet builds (I think in v3.19b too), there's a
 >  DM> "FidoNet
 >  DM> Area Tag" field. Set that to match the proper area tag and then the
 >  DM> other fields (long/short name, internal code) can be
 >  DM> whatever you like. --
 >
 > Thanks Rob.  So, following from this:
 >
 > 1. The 'Import Areas' tool in scfg doesn't auto-populate this Tag when
 > importing from a FILEGATE format file.  What's the easiest way to set them
 > to be the (current) internal code as part of this process?

There's an algorithm to determine a directory's area tag. If the area tag setting is blank, it falls back to the short name (replacing spaces with underscores) - automatically.

 > 2. Suggestion: Can tickit be adjusted so that AutoAreas also works if the
 > 'FidoNet Area Tag' field matches?

It already does.
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