TIMS is DEAD! & Registration for 2017 opens May 19th

[rsisk]

Invited a new mentor to our FRC team today, worked very nice, I would mark this as an improvement.

Try to pay for our FLL team registration, not so good. Complains because I am associated with multiple teams (like who isn't) and I have to call FIRST. Also complaining that I am not YPP certified (I am), and there were some other complaints. I would mark this as a worse experience than before.

FLL Team Number is still #26 - Total win there!

[FrankJ]

I was able to go in and update my waiver & youth protection screening required for first and second contacts.

Your YPP has to be updated every two years.

[kristinweiss]

I was also having trouble with it saying that my YPP is not up to date even though it is

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Invited a new mentor to our FRC team today, worked very nice, I would mark this as an improvement.

Try to pay for our FLL team registration, not so good. Complains because I am associated with multiple teams (like who isn't) and I have to call FIRST. Also complaining that I am not YPP certified (I am), and there were some other complaints. I would mark this as a worse experience than before.

FLL Team Number is still #26 - Total win there!

Update on this... when the new mentor went to click on the invitation email, he got the message "Something went wrong". I moving this over to the "Worse customer experience" column.

No clue what went wrong, no indication of how to fix it. So going to need to call FIRST.

[scca229]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Update on this... when the new mentor went to click on the invitation email, he got the message "Something went wrong". I moving this over to the "Worse customer experience" column.

No clue what went wrong, no indication of how to fix it. So going to need to call FIRST.

Or maybe wait until May 19 @ 12:00EDT when it is fully operational for FRC?

[DaveL]

I just tried it and it shows the mentors and coaches from last season.
Dave

[FrankJ]

Mentors and coaches have always been carried over year to year. Students have to reregister every year.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by scca229

Or maybe wait until May 19 @ 12:00EDT when it is fully operational for FRC?

Yep, that's what FIRST said when I called them.

[sanddrag]

My team does not show at all in Firefox, but it does in Chrome. Seriously, does anyone ever test this stuff before they release it?

EDIT: It appears in Chrome it takes a few seconds for it to show up. Until then, the dashboard just appears blank.

[FrankJ]

It works in firefox for me. Maybe you have something disabled?

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

It works in firefox for me. Maybe you have something disabled?

Okay, my mistake. It does work. It just takes about 9 seconds for the team to load. Before it does, it says "No teams here."

[bdaroz]

This is a pattern I've seen time and time again, and I always end up screaming about bad UX in my head when I see it....

AJAX for AJAX's sake

If you have a page that's supposed to... say, show an invoice. Don't load a blank page, then make a bunch of AJAX calls after load to get the invoice. Sure your page loading stats (to render) will be great, and your users will look at your blank invoice page and wonder WTH...