New Amanda Noon Archive!

Posted June 2, 2021, 1:21 p.m. by Vice Admiral Lindsay Bayes (Gamemaster Director/ Senior Gamemaster) (Lindsay B)

Posted by Vice Admiral Lindsay Bayes (Gamemaster Director/ Senior Gamemaster) in New Amanda Noon Archive!
Hello folks!

As I’ve mentioned, we have a new and functioning Archive. It’s taken a lot of effort on the part of Joe P to code the darn thing and many of us have contributed to its design, function and testing. So a big thank you to everyone involved in this process. What we have now is much simpler to administer and use.

[*there is a hard deadline on old archive submissions- pay attention to the end of this post for the date]

Changes:

-Sim Starts and Ends, plus GMT and GMM recommendations and reviews are no longer entered on an external form and emailed to the department. Everything is done through the archive itself and with the exception of sim starts, needs no departmental approval first.

-Sim history for a GM displays sims logged on the new archive first followed by the old archive. The new archive is just pulling data from the old archive to display. Very soon we will not be able to change the old archive at all, so if you notice errors in your old sims, let us know ASAP.

-GM Profiles: Are you excited? I’m excited! Any player who has a GM Profile logged into Exodus (we did each manually) will have a link on the Player Profile that takes them to their GM Profile. Information here includes: Rank, Sim History, GMT Rec’s and Reviews, GMM Rec’s & History. A player gets a GM profile when they become a Prospective GM (ie. have passed the GM exam).
–Note that we will now be able to track GMM history but this will likely not be retroactive unless the sim is logged through Exodus and not the old Archive.

How-to:

You must be logged into STF in order to submit anything to the Archive. But everything is viewable even if you are not logged in.

You can navigate to either Gamemasters or Ships, and back and forth to find what you are looking for from the main link (on the GMD MOTD): https://www.star-fleet.com/gmdept/

Sim Starts- You will note there is a link once you go into the Archive that allows you to Submit New Sim. Enter ALL the information asked for. You can amend the sim summary later at the Sim End, but for now give a one or two -liner about the concept. This prevents us from having NO information later if a sim ends up going incomplete.

Sim Ends- Navigating to the SHIP, there is a button on the top right that says Update/End the current sim.

Reviews/Recommendations: Navigate to the GM Profile. There is a green button that says Add a Review. Click that and submit the required info. Make sure to use the drop-down box to select the correct label (GMT review, GMM Rec’ ect.)

NOTE: Sim entries can be submitted by GMs, GMMs, COs, XOs and FComms. So long as someone submits it, it’s all good. Happy GMD people give out cookies. Cookies are good!

Things to Look For:
-are you a Prospective GM/GMT/Licensed GM and have a GM Profile?
-is your GM rank correct?
-is your sim history up to date?
-are your recommendations and reviews correct?

If you said no to ANY of these, contact the GMD and we’ll help get things updated. Even if you are not currently active we will keep all this information up to date.

If you have OLD archive (ie. pre-Exodus) sims that need updating (ie. Sim End dates or summaries added). Email or message us on Discord. We have to add those through the old database. ANY changes you want to make to these sims must be submitted to us by MAY 31st, 2021. We will take some time after do data entry but after that the old Archive will be locked and exist forevermore in whatever state it is on that date.

Questions? Issues? Please let us know!

~Linds, GMDir

Bumping this for reference.

~Linds

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