Thanks Harold.
In checking, Steve Ewald
notified the SMs on March 10th of duplicate entries in the database.
Then, another notice was sent
out on March 17th about triplicate entries in the database and that the
errors should be corrected by mid week.
Two of our section managers have
indicated they have appointments they need to enter but, they are afraid to
enter them at this point not knowing how the new entries would be treated in
the database.
My concern is that our members
looking at the Section pages on our website are going to wonder why each section
cabinet appointee is listed three times and may think of the triplicate errors
as a reflection of the section manager.
How soon do we anticipate this
being corrected?
Thanks!
-
Bill N3LLR
From: Kramer, Harold,
WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:21 PM
To: arrl-odv
Cc: arrl-odv; Bloom, Jon, KE3Z; Proctor, John, K1JMP; Durand, Don;
Ewald, Steve, WV1X
Subject: [arrl-odv:16613] RE: [arrl-odv:16608] Field Appointments
Database Errors
Hi Bill,
Here
is what I know about the situation:
As
you may recall, during the weekend of March 8 and 9, ARRL Headquarters upgraded
our hardware and our accounting software that, along with Siebel, maintains
most of our in-house information. Because of this transition to the new
hardware and software, we discovered that the ARRL Web page version of the
Field Services Appointment data base temporarily shows a triplicate listing for
every appointment. http://www.arrl.org/members-only/fsa/
As
many of you may know, the ARRL Section Web pages also show a triplicate listing
for every Section Leader in the “side bar” of each Section’s
Web page. http://www.arrl.org/sections/
The
programming that is supposed to convert Field Appointment data from the HQ data
base over to the ARRL Web site did not work properly after the
conversion. Jon Bloom and John Proctor are currently rebuilding the
program, and we hope to have the corrections in place shortly.
SMs
were notified directly about this issue previously.
73,
Harold
Harold Kramer, WJ1B
Chief Operating Officer
ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio
860 594 0220
hkramer@arrl.org
From: Bill Edgar
[mailto:n3llr@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:53 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:16608] Field Appointments Database Errors
I was reading through some of the Section News websites for
Atlantic Division Sections yesterday and today and I noticed that the Section
Cabinet members are listed three times. I then went into the Field
Appointment database and checked on several appointees and found that each
appointee I checked was listed three times as well.
I talked to several of our division’s section managers
today and they mentioned there was an error with the Field Services database
and that staff was working to get this cleaned up by middle of last week.
What happened and how soon is this expected to be fixed?
Thanks!
-
Bill N3LLR