CAP-IT Re-Launch

[coudano]

Greetings.

I'm Captain Neil McNeight, and I am the Washington Wing Director of Information Technology, as well as a member of the Civil Air Patrol National IT committee. As you all know, working with computers in CAP offers a unique environment that deals with everything from processing data collected from a G1000 to printing award histories; from keeping information flowing on a day-to-day basis to providing IT assistance during emergency services missions. Your users can be an age anywhere from 12 to 85+, with very little common experience or level of training.

When I first took on the role of wing IT, I searched the web for resources that would help me in this position. The best resource I had found was the CAP IT forum at cap-it.us. While my participation was infrequent, I was able to get answers to some rather unique challenges I had been facing. Recognizing that there needed to be more work done on sharing information and providing answers to common problems that many IT officers face, I realized that cap-it.us was an excellent place to start. SMSgt Shane Williams has been gracious enough to turn over operation of the cap-it.us board to me. I'd like to thank him for his service, and for continuing to keep this forum available as a resource.

I invite you back to visit the Civil Air Patrol Information Technology forum at cap-it.us to both ask questions and to help other IT officers around the country learn from your experience.

-Neil

Neil McNeight, Capt, CAP
Director of Information Technology
Washington Wing, Civil Air Patrol
http://www.wawg.cap.gov

http://cap-it.us

[NIN]

Awesome.

I knew Neil when he was a cadet. And Shane, too.

Scary.

* NIN goes off to the corner and feel old.

[mcneight]

coudano,

Thanks for posting this. I was going to ask if it was kosher to advertise for other forums here, but NIN's reply takes care of that.

NIN,

These days, I don't need a corner to feel old.

-Neil

[kratclif]

This is cool. I'm my unit's IT Officer and would like to participate. However, I'm having trouble registering at the site. No matter what I put in the Unit field I get this message:

The following errors were detected in your registration. Please correct them to continue:
The "Unit" field is an invalid format.

I've tried:

GLR-IN-002
IN-002
IN002
GLRIN002
<blank>

Tried in latest versions of Chrome and Firefox.

I can post a screenshot of the error and my input if needed.

Where did I go wrong?

Thank you!

Kevin

[kratclif]

Okay, I figured it out. I was able to enter the old-school 12002 as my Unit number. However, the instructions show the newer style REGION-WING-NUMBER format, so I'm guessing I'm not the only one with this issue.

Thanks.

Kevin

[mcneight]

Sorry about that.

I was playing around with input validation using a regex string. It should be working now, and I've posted the string for "peer review" at the forum.

Ideally, it should also reject the old-school charter numbers as well.

-Neil

[arajca]

NIN,

These days, I don't need a corner to feel old.

-Neil

You gotta rub it in.