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C-17 ATS

Web Training Management System (WTMS)

 Version 1.2

 14 Apr 2004

 

1.  Product Description

This Release Note describes the features, enhancements, and corrections to Version 1.2 of the Web Training Management System (WTMS).

2. New Features

The following enhancements were made to the WTMS with this release:

  • Added online help capability to many pages.  This help is available by clicking on the icon.  This will initially open with help related to the current page, but navigation links are available to all help.
  • Added an user access group called AF Sortie Writeups.  This will allow group members such as aircraft commanders to do write-ups on flights for other crew members.
  • A Squadron Roster report was added.  This report allows you to select one or more squadrons and it lists all active members of  the squadron along with the user access groups they are a member of.
  • Added a user access group called AF TMS Administrator that allows limited changing of the personal information for other users.  This will allow squadron/wing personnel to add or remove people from the squadron and manage user access group membership for the AF Sortie Writeups, AF Instructor, and AF Reviewer groups.
  • An extensive message system has been added to facilitate general announcements.  This allows users with the correct rights to send an announcement to a group of users (determined by selecting locations, categories, and groups).  All users will be taken to the message page when first entering the website if they have unread messages.  Messages can be selected at any time from the TMS page.  Users can read the message and optionally delete it from their list.  A record is kept of messages sent and who has read them.  More Info...
  • You can now have a favorite or bookmark saved to the main tab pages on the website when accessing using the AccessTo Gateway (formerly called CITIS).  This allows you to mark the Gradesheet page for example.  When selecting the saved favorite you will be prompted for the AccessTo logon but after logging in you will go direct to the Gradesheet page.
  • Significant changes were made to the person selection to improve performance.  It is suggested that the details of the person filter be reviewed to achieve the best performance possible.  In general, use the Find instead of the drop down list for optimum performance.  More Info...
  • Other performance improvements have been made thanks to user feedback.  The response when selecting a person, type of course, course, and the lesson to grade have been reduced significantly.
  • Based on user feedback many of the text based links/actions have been changed to buttons to make them more recognizable.
  • The display and behavior of the worksheet objectives have been changed.  The grade achieved on the previous performance is now displayed in a separate column from the grade being entered.  This allows recording of the performance of an objective when it was at the same level as the earlier attempt.  A non-standard worksheet objective will also now allow a non-standard lesson grade.
  • The ability for authorized users to reset the password for other users was added with this release.
  • Support for a Schedule View was added to the Gradesheet.  Similar to the existing TMS this allows an instructor to select a lesson based on their scheduled events.  The lesson can be graded, marked complete, or a different student assigned from this display.
  • The timeout period for a page has been increased from 20 minutes to 60 minutes.  This was requested as some write-ups were taking more than the allowed 20 minutes.  You must interact with the web server during this period to keep your connection.  For example, when grading a lesson clicking between General and Comments will reset this time. 

3. Fixes

The following corrections were made in this release of the WTMS:

  • In several areas of the WTMS a click would result in the save being performed twice.  This has been corrected to ignore subsequent clicks while the first is being processed.
  • Several areas of the website were modified to better support document display and upload.  These would previously have problems when certain special characters were used in the file name.
  • Corrected an abort on the Refly Statistics report.  The default date range for this report was changed to use the past two weeks instead of using dates in the future.
  • Corrected an abort on the Resource Unit Schedule report that occurred when no location was selected.
  • A correction was made when updating personal information that caused the Groups and Locations for the user to be lost.  This had been disabled in the previous release pending this fix.
  • The Instructor Schedule report was fixed to show the correct name in the page header when the person selected was an observer or student on the first event displayed.
  • Several links to the Portal Home have been fixed to properly return to the main portal display page.
  • Several reports were corrected to check for a selected location prior to generating the report.
  • The Mission Readiness report incorrectly displayed some objectives as a failure.  This report has been corrected.
  • Changing the date on the Needed Course list was previously ignored.  This now updates the needed courses based on the date entered allowing, for example, the last quarter's needed courses to be displayed and selected.
  • Reports would occasionally give an error stating "sql parameters already exist in collection".  This has been corrected.