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Sample District WOW II/National PE Calendar PowerPoint Presentation Available; DSOs Take Note!

2012-02-19T18:31:00Z

District Staff Officers and Divsion staff officers, take note: District 11SR has shared with us their very-well-received, January 2012 WOW II and National Public Education Calendar presentation. Although it comes without script, it is pretty easy to figure out what to say.

You can download both the presentation and the PowerPoint show by clicking on the Documentation button here in this dashboard, and reading the section "WOW II Presentations". For convenience, the links are also below.

This presentation is ideal for division staff officers to present at division staff meetings, when all the flotilla commanders are there. District staff officers: take this presentation, substitute in your own name and statistics for your district, and distribute to the SO-CS officers in your chain.

For best results, download both the presentation and the show, and watch the show first. This will give you a sense for how to present the key messages on each slide. Good luck!

WOW II District 11SR PowerPoint Presentation (January 7, 2012)
WOW II District 11SR PowerPoint Show (January 7, 2012)

I Opted In to Email and Phone Numbers on the About Page, and They are Not There!

2011-09-19T22:03:16Z

The documentation for WOW II informs you that if you are the unit commander, vice commander, or HR officer, you may opt in to showing your email address or phone number, or both, on the "About this Unit" page. The opt-in/opt-out procedure calls for the respective member to log into AuxOfficer, and then navigate to his/her own page. Halfway down, below the phone numbers, are four EDIT buttons that allow the member to edit their own settings.

Here's the secret handshake: Regardless of what the settings say in AuxOfficer, if you have never changed these settings before, they are not stored in the AuxOfficer database (where WOW finds them) until you change one of the settings for the first time, and hit SAVE. Then, and only then, is the information written to the database for WOW. In particular, if you wish to opt IN, come to your AuxOfficer page for the first time, and the setting are already what you want, you still must change something, hit SAVE, and then if necessary, change it back and hit SAVE again. Then, your choices will be reflected in WOW.

NB: WOW II "caches" all of the unit's information when you open the site for the first time, so as not to keep going back to the database over the internet. In order to see the results of a settings change like this, it is necessary to close your browser AND ALL OTHER WINDOWS OPEN from the SAME browser, and then re-visit the site. This causes the system to read the parameters again from the database.

WOW II User's Guide Released

2011-09-07T02:27:00Z

The Computer Software & Systems Department is pleased to release a comprehensive-but-preliminary, 39-page User's Guide to the WOW II Platform, prepared with the assistance of our User Services and Support colleagues.

The PDF document may be downloaded from this Dashboard by clicking "Documentation" in the WOW Utilities menu to the left. A useful PowerPoint presentation on "WOW: Pushbutton Websites" can also be found there.

The User's Guide will be updated frequently as experience with the production release of WOW is gained.

If you have any suggestions for the User's Guide, or find any typos, please submit your comments via the Feedback button to the left.

Known Bugs

2011-09-04T18:29:29Z

None known.

Zoom Bug in Internet Explorer 8 and below

2011-08-28T19:54:18Z

When using the WOW Dashboard to configure a site, and your browser is Internet Explorer 8 or 7, Microsoft's View>Zoom command will cause the dashboard to break up if you set the zoom below 100%. Microsoft fixed this bug in IE9.

Workaround: don't Zoom your IE8 or IE7 browser below 100%.