E-services and WMIRS wish list

[RiverAux]

So what things would you like to see added to, subtracted from, or fixed on CAP's e-services and/or WMIRS? 

I think the thing that would be most helpful would be having all awards tracked in services along with an electronic system for recommending and approving them like we have for ES qualifications. 

In WMIRS I would like to see mission summary statistics available at the Wing and National levels, along with their outcomes (for SAR missions).  Right now you can manually figure some information out on your own, but even that capability is pretty limited. 

[smj58501]

A way to download (all at once) a member's 101's and SQTR's as pdf's so they can be saved to a thumb/ external drive/ CD ROM for electronic document storage

[airdale]

How about:

1) User interfaces designed by someone who actually knows how to do one.

2) Code written by someone who can add a flight to a tiny database in two seconds instead of two minutes.

[James Shaw]

Some of the Awards are allready tracked by NHQ but not available to members through Eservices.

SMV
BMV
DSM
National Commanders ESA
National Commanders MSA
National Commanders CC
National Commanders Unit Comm

It seems like it would be very tasking to put all awards received in the system. Would these be all levels of awards and decorations
or just a few?

[RiverAux]

Put them all in. 

Just for comparison, the CG Aux has an online system that tracks:
1.  All member awards
2.  Member demographics
3.  Member qualifications (similar to our ES quals, but includes many others)
4.  Info on member boats, airplanes, radios
5.  Individual and Unit level hours spent on CG Aux activities

All this information is open and available to all members nationwide.

[MIKE]

All this information is open and available to all members nationwide.

Hopefully not for much longer with the CG-6 mandates and migration to a .mil...  Why it was not put behind a login like the eDirectory is beyond me.

[RiverAux]

You're talking about prohibiting access by the public rather than access to members.  I've got mixed feelings about that. 

[PHall]

A way to download (all at once) a member's 101's and SQTR's as pdf's so they can be saved to a thumb/ external drive/ CD ROM for electronic document storage

Why?  Those change frequently enough that your data will out of date within a day or two.

The stuff on-line is always current.

[Major Carrales]

WMIRS needs to clearly show who was on the given missions/sorties for later credit on SQTR, or rather for confirming the signoff on SQTRs. 

E-services needs to track membership awards be a bit more user friendly.  When updating SQTRs, and on a few other applications, there are not enough choices of where to "go back to," so sometimes one has to go back to the "main" page and follow the tree back to get another members.  I guess I would ask for a better navigation window that could let you go "up and down" the tree with greater ease.

[IceNine]

Tracking for Flight Officer Grades

[Eclipse]

If its a grade, award, mission, activity, or anything else that a member or commander would care about down the road enough to have to validate receipt or participation, it should be in eServices.

If its on the CAPF 2, 2a, 24, or similar forms, it should be in there, including conferences, directorships of PD activities, and
former staff positions held.

Right now there is no way to tell if anyone was ever a CC before, staffer, or any other important job.

[IceNine]

Oh that's the other one.  Not only past staff positions but date of appointment for current one's.  It's hard to track TIS without knowing when the commander was appointed. Also, don't really know when to put them in for the command service ribbons either.

[JC004]

They could make the duty assignment titles correct.  "Information Technologies Officer" should be just "Technology" for one.

[smj58501]

A matrix-type report showing all ES tasks down one side, unit members across the top (or vice versa), and task completion status in the "middle" where names and tasks would intersect. Commander's could crosswalk tasks to see which ones need focus for squadron ES training

[RiverAux]

Some summary reports on just about everything in e-services now would be nice.  For example, a report squadron, group, and wing levels showing the number of people holding each ES qualification.  As it is now, you have to figure that out manually.

[Tim Medeiros]

I think the thing that would be most helpful would be having all awards tracked in services along with an electronic system for recommending and approving them like we have for ES qualifications. 

I suggested this a little bit back, here is the response I got from one of the developers

IT Developer 6/9/2008 2:10:53 PM
Here is the answer I get about the application suggestion:
"National Headquarters is moving toward a totally automated personnel system. The Cadet Achievement/Promotion module has just been released and the Professional Development Awards module is the next on the list. Other personnel actions will follow as soon as possible."

This suggestion was made using the eServices Help Desk.  I certainly recommend using the Help Desk to pass along ideas, IT DOES listen, even if they do tend to get busy.

[AlphaSigOU]

Some of the Awards are allready tracked by NHQ but not available to members through Eservices.

SMV
BMV
DSM
National Commanders ESA
National Commanders MSA
National Commanders CC
National Commanders Unit Comm

They now have a National CC ESA and MSA? I knew of the National Commander's Comm-Comm. Same silver star to denote the Nat CC award?

If this is correct, time to go fix my ribbon guide...

[IceNine]

Ability to search for members based off of any of the criteria that is or should be tracked by e-services.

Random example-  Senior member, Capt or higher, w/3+ years of service, that does IT professionally.

All of this information is available in e-services but you have to wade through an entire roster to find what you are looking for

[Phil Hirons, Jr.]

Ability to search for members based off of any of the criteria that is or should be tracked by e-services.

Random example-  Senior member, Capt or higher, w/3+ years of service, that does IT professionally.

All of this information is available in e-services but you have to wade through an entire roster to find what you are looking for

Most of the data is in the CAPWATCH download. You do not have to use the user interface (UI) that they provide. Some basic MS Access knowledge can yield very usefull lists.

[RiverAux]

True, but basic Access knowledge is stretched pretty thin in CAP in my experience.  On the other hand, queries as specific as was suggested are unlikely to be used very often so I'm not sure it would be worth the time to develop them.