Calendar, Lead & Divisional Boards

Over the last few weeks GFC research division has been looking carefully and listening to members requests about updated info and greater direct access to it and officers.

Division Boards have been place around the sims for Personnel, CDO, Medical and the Academy at present, these boards show when members of that division are available and can be called directly by clicking on their picture if they are free and have signed into the board. This makes it easier for people to know who's available at a glance.

Board Scripter Richardjrn Weatherwax stands next the Division Boards

Also as an early test  a live GFC calendar of events and division lead lists has been place. The boards use web on a prim live shared media in V2/V3 compatible viewers like firestorm to show web based documents in world. Users who use V1 style viewers like phoenix wont be able to view web on a prim, instead you simply get a texture on the board which you click to be given a link to view the content in your web browser.

The calendar is the same as you see on this blog as is the division lead list, The lead list tracks which leads are in which positions and the calendar shows the times and dates of events happening. The advantage of using web based data is the speed of updates. The moment your  aware of new information it can be added without the need to even come in world, quick and easily, the latest info you put in will be ready to view almost immediately.

Division Boards can be found in the sandbox, outside the Academy, CDO, Quarks in DS19, Personnel and will be rolling out elsewhere around the sim with other divisions being added.

The calendar can be seen in the sandbox and the Division Lead List is available in the sandbox and outside the CDO office, other locations may be added later.

Boards Texture if viewed in V1 viewers like Phoenix, click to load in your chosen web browser.  

More items are in development which will push more information to the members and guests when they need its so watch this space.

Academy Class Pull Down Menu

Over the next few day there will be changes in how we list certain items on this site. We want to incorporate pull down menus and the first screaming victim has been the Academy Classes list, you'll find it on the left sidebar under the translator for now, just click the downward arrow on the box and choose the time zone that is or closest to your country.

As you can see with the event calendars, we think its very important for people to be able to look at timed information in their own time zones and give the people who the data is based upon access to the documents so they can update it themselves. No better way of keeping information as up to date as possible

Remember to tell us what you think and ways of improving it and we'll see what we can do.

GFC Multi Calendar

Some of you may have noticed if you've looked at the side bar on this site that we've added a few additional options. One of those which we are testing out is the use of an online calendar for GFC events. At time of writing we have added a google calendar which links to versions of that calendar for a variety of times zones.

Unfortunately google doesn't automatically change the calendar based on your location so we've had to add individual calendars for certain popular areas. We are looking at a more efficient way but this seems to work well for now.

GFC Calendar on smart phone

The Calendar is Strategic Operations based in nature and covers RP events, GM and SOM meetings.

Multiple calendars from other divisions could be added in time if they'd want to mix them or join in with the tests..

Another useful ability is to add a specific calendar to your own google calendar by just clicking the google button at the bottom right of the calendar. With that you could even add a GFC calendar to your own mobile phone calendar app giving access and a reminder of whats happening in the GFC at any time of day and from anywhere.

We will be experimenting more with the calendar in time to come so we'll keep you posted.