Addition to Values Framework

• The Values Framework page has been updated with the MVF: Skills & Energy Management chart
• We are currently contemplating a change in the way the Skills & Energy Management scores are derived. You will be advised when, or if, a change is made.

Reminder

Please test the new AVI Questionnaire and give us feedback before it is cut-over in place of the current AVI. The link is: 

http://www.minessence.net/avi2.aspx?affiliate=MINESS&procode=corporate

[replace MINESS with your own Affiliate code].

Feel free to "play" with creating fictitious new user's, etc. as the test version is also linked to a test database.

You will notice the link is identical to the current link you use but with avi2.aspx replacing avi.aspx.

Email Issue Over

The issue with emails to Minessence Support seems to have been resolved. Until I am convinced there are no ongoing issues I'll leave miness@bigpond.net.au here as an alternative contact should you suspect your emails are not getting through to us.

Email Issue

Due to a problem with the mail server which handles the Minessence Website, we have been unable to receive any emails since 10am this morning AEST. None of the messages will be lost, they are being saved in a queue.

Until this problem is resolved please use miness@bigpond.net.au to contact Minessence Support.

New Online AVI Questionnaire

The new AVI Questionnaire is is now ready for release. Before it actually goes live, I'd like you to "play" with it as much as possible. The current "play-status" version uses a totally separate database from the live AVI so please create as many fictitious users as you like to test as many aspects of it as possible.

Until the new AVI goes you will not be able to control any aspect of it from MissionControl, including access to the responses you create. So while "playing" with it, don't pay too much attention to the statements you choose, just focus on the functionality.

To try the new AVI Questionnaire, just replace AVI.aspx with AVI2.aspx in the link you usually give your clients to access the AVI.

New Software for the AVI Questionnaire

An new version of the AVI Online Questionnaire will be released soon. The changes from the user's perspective are:

• The log in screen looks very similar to the MissionControl log in. There's no "new users click here" hyperlink, instead, there's a register link and first time users are required to register.
• The introduction page, which preceded the contact details entry form, no longer exists. Instead, the instructions are included on the registration page itself.
• Once a person has registered/logged in, they are given the usual spiel about why values are important.
• The affiliates banner is on the top of all the intro. pages except for the login & registration pages.
• If group code entry is required, the user cannot move to the next page until they actually make a selection.
• The top of all the pages displays the name of the person logged in. So if someone logs in with another person's ID (which seems to happen from time to time!) it will be more obvious to the person that their responses are being recorded against the other person's name.
• When a person logs in, they have no opportunity to change their personal registration details, so if they have logged in with someone else's ID (because they were told by a colleague, this is the ID to use!), they no longer have the opportunity to clobber the ID owner's personal details.
• A new page has been added, which only appears when people log back in to a partially completed AVI. This new page tells people where they "were at" before logging out, and gives them the option of re-starting from where they were up to, or from the very beginning (including the intro. pages).

From the AVI Consultant's perspective:

• New instructions will need to be formulated to give to people who will be completing the AVI.
• A new link will be provided to the new software. People can start using the new software as soon as it's released, though there's no immediate need to do so. There will be a cutoff date (a few weeks into the future) from when the old AVI Software will no longer be available. From that date, people will automatically be redirected to the new AVI Questionnaire.

Project Manager Update

Dougal identified a limitation with the Project Manager, i.e. update descriptions for jobs were limited to a length of 2000 characters. Any attempt to add an update greater than 2000 characters produced an, "unable to update", or  "unable to edit" error.

This limitation has been removed and updates/edits to jobs are now virtually unlimited in terms of text length.