Frank Bitterlich

One of the really new features in ET4 is the Member History. It will track all changes made to a member´s VATSIM record over time.

This tracking is also a prerequisite to automatically issuing tokes when certain conditions are met, and marking tests as “done” once a rating upgrade has occurred. Bottom line: less work for you, guys.

Feel free to comment, either here, or in the VATEUD forum.

Gentlemen, please have a look at how manual evaluations (should we call them “review”? Sounds better somehow, methinks) will look in the future.

The admin menu will contain a list of “recurring tasks” with badges showing the number of waiting items next to them, if any.

Click on the link and you will be taken to the manual evaluations that are waiting.

Clicking on the test ID will take you to the review form. After some general information (about the member and the test) you´ll see the questions that need manual review.

Most notable are the fields for comments to the candidate, and internal notes (you could put the reasons for your decision there).

Some javascript trickery automatically puts the notes from the “HINTPASS” and “HINTFAIL” fields of the question into the comment box, if you click the respective radio buttons “Correct” or “Wrong”.

Finally, when you submit the form, ET4 will check if any questions are marked as “postpone decision”. If any are found, the review decisions will just be stored for later; if not, the final test results are calculated and ET4 will do its duty.

Please let me know what you think of this, and whether anything is missing… Thanks.

Here are a few new screenshots of Eurotest 4. I´ve mostly been working on making it work right, so there´s not that much news on the UI side, but anyway…

First, there is now a way to add the right to dispense specific tokes to a role; this is necessary if you want to let certain people (say, VACC staff) dispense certain tokens (for example an “Early Retest” token). This can optionally be limited to members of those VACCs where the user holding that role is a staff member (more on that below).

As mentioned above, users can be defined to be staff for one ore more VACC. This replaces the old “Multi-VACC” option, which was an ugly hack; now we´re doing it right. If you are staff of a VACC (which has nothing to do with being a member of this VACC), and have the necessary roles, you might be able to view members of this/those VACC(s).

The “My Status” page contains a “Past Tests” section, where you can review your past performance, and access old test forms complete with the answers you gave.

Of course, they are read-only.

ET4 now has slightly more than 8.000 lines of code, not counting any frameworks I´m using. This is a huge beast, much bigger than I expected.

I did a lot of bug-fixing recently; the autosave feature for test forms now works like a charm. Role-based autorization is another important thing; you don´t want to have bugs in there. It´s now almost working to my satisfaction.

Stay tuned for more updates!