Would it be possible to have a ticker somewhere on the site with the number of submissions currently pending to be added to the site? I see a number displayed when I submit data, just wondering if there is a way to keep tabs on it.
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loumaag
Silent Key - Aug 2014
Hmm, I am not sure I understand what you are asking. But for information purposes, let me tell you what, as admins, we see.
First you must understand there are really two kinds of admins, local/regional and global. The local/regional admins cover entities as small as a single trunking system or up to several states. As such they are the primary responsible people to deal with submissions in their areas. As a result, they only see those submissions which are involved with areas they are responsible for. For example, if a local/regional admin had the responsibility for Kansas, he/she will not see any submissions for Ohio.
Submissions are seen on the main DB admin page (viewable by admins only), now here comes the problem. Global admins see all submissions, no matter where they are for and can update them, but typically the global admins don't tread on the toes of the local/regional admins unless a submission gets a little long in the tooth.
The trouble comes from this, some global admins are also basically responsible for a region also (they grew from local/regional to global) but since they see all submissions they may not see anything for their areas of primary interest because of the clog of submissions from elsewhere. Let me explain that by example, say a specific global admin has maybe the SW US as a region he/she has a particular interest in. Also say he/she knows little about the New England area. Now say some joker in New Jersey has decided he is going to submit information on every frequency in the FCC database for NJ that hasn't already been put in RR and he does it one frequency per submission. Needless to say the submission queue (max display is 50 conventional submissions at a time) gets full of NJ single frequency submissions and no others are displayed on this global's queue because they are held up by the mass amount of single submissions, so later submissions for New Mexico aren't showing up in the global admins queue. Of course as someone takes "ownership" of the NJ submissions and begins to work them, they disappear from the pending queue and are replaced in submission date/time order with the oldest first, but still you can see that a single submission may be worked right away (or within a few hours) or it may sit (invisible) for several days.
With that explanation, can you rephrase your question or does that really answer it?
First you must understand there are really two kinds of admins, local/regional and global. The local/regional admins cover entities as small as a single trunking system or up to several states. As such they are the primary responsible people to deal with submissions in their areas. As a result, they only see those submissions which are involved with areas they are responsible for. For example, if a local/regional admin had the responsibility for Kansas, he/she will not see any submissions for Ohio.
Submissions are seen on the main DB admin page (viewable by admins only), now here comes the problem. Global admins see all submissions, no matter where they are for and can update them, but typically the global admins don't tread on the toes of the local/regional admins unless a submission gets a little long in the tooth.
The trouble comes from this, some global admins are also basically responsible for a region also (they grew from local/regional to global) but since they see all submissions they may not see anything for their areas of primary interest because of the clog of submissions from elsewhere. Let me explain that by example, say a specific global admin has maybe the SW US as a region he/she has a particular interest in. Also say he/she knows little about the New England area. Now say some joker in New Jersey has decided he is going to submit information on every frequency in the FCC database for NJ that hasn't already been put in RR and he does it one frequency per submission. Needless to say the submission queue (max display is 50 conventional submissions at a time) gets full of NJ single frequency submissions and no others are displayed on this global's queue because they are held up by the mass amount of single submissions, so later submissions for New Mexico aren't showing up in the global admins queue. Of course as someone takes "ownership" of the NJ submissions and begins to work them, they disappear from the pending queue and are replaced in submission date/time order with the oldest first, but still you can see that a single submission may be worked right away (or within a few hours) or it may sit (invisible) for several days.
With that explanation, can you rephrase your question or does that really answer it?
So are you saying it would be better to wait until you have a few changes to one group? Say over the timeframe of a week or so if I'm working on checking out a county?
loumaag
Silent Key - Aug 2014
Well that would be up to you, what I was saying is that there are lots of people who misuse the ability to "identify an unknown" frequency, by submitting them all in a single session, one at a time, instead of putting them together as single submission. If you are working on a county, trying to untangle it, sure, wait until you have something cohesive, it saves changing things over and over. Let me tell you, it is a lot easier to submit than it is to process submissions.Grog said:
As another note, submitting a frequency that is not ID'd for a county, and saying it is no longer used is just plain duhhh, if it was no longer being used, we don't want to know about it. It may have already been there, and removed. :wink:
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ffexpCP said:
Lou,
I think what he is asking is where it says: County Updates, All Today, All Past 7 Days, in the menu section it would be nice to have a counter stating "00200 submissions are waiting to be added to the database". I have noticed on some occasions when I submit a new frequency, depending on who is doing the updating, it could be made public in less than an hour. Like you said, everyone has their own part of the database to update when time permits.
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Yeah lou,
I think he's saying when you submit changes after you go through all the steps it says at the bottom of the page something like;
"Please be patient regarding the posting of your submission!
We have 234 submissions waiting to be processed. Please do not ask us the status of your submission, we did receive it and will process it accordingly. Thank you!"
He's looking for something like a page counter near the top or bottom somewhere that says; "234 submissions in que" Just so people can keep an eye on how many submissions are being worked at any time without having to submit data to see it.
I think he's saying when you submit changes after you go through all the steps it says at the bottom of the page something like;
"Please be patient regarding the posting of your submission!
We have 234 submissions waiting to be processed. Please do not ask us the status of your submission, we did receive it and will process it accordingly. Thank you!"
He's looking for something like a page counter near the top or bottom somewhere that says; "234 submissions in que" Just so people can keep an eye on how many submissions are being worked at any time without having to submit data to see it.
loumaag
Silent Key - Aug 2014
Ahhh, actually that would a neat idea, even if it wasn't public. I know for a fact that my "conventional queue" has been maxed out at 50 for I don't know how long.AngelFire91 said:
Lindsay, you see this?
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