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How to do a batch entry of L31 reports in vTools.Meetings

If you have a lot of similar L31 reports to submit, we encourage you to schedule meetings before hand and then use L31 templates avilable from the meetings’ pages. However, if that is not feasible, then you can use a work around to automatically fill in fields …

Updates to Voting and WebInABox

We are happy to announce that vTools.Voting version 1.2.2 and WebInABox version 2.1 have been released.  Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
vTools.Voting version 1.2.2 list of changes:

Added ability to paste text (such as bios and voter instructions) from MS Word without …

How do I receive notices of the future meetings for my section/chapter/etc?

To be informed of the future meetings an IEEE member can subscribe to an RSS feed of meetings for his region, section, chapter., or an affinity group.
The one time subscription setup is as follows:

login with IEEE web account credentials at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org
click on “View Feeds (RSS/HTML/XML/iCal)” …

vTools Charter

vTools charter is defined in section 4.19 of the Member and Geographic Activities Operations Manual:
https://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/operations_manual/index.html

vTools.Meetings version 3.0.1

vTools.Meetings version 3.0.1  will be released on Wednesday, September 15th. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
List of changes:

1. changed the version number on about screen
2. removed database tables and fields we are not using
3. fixed an error where speaker_report records were …

DimDim version 6 has been released

Over the weekend DimDim released version 6 of the software. It is enhanced with the following new features:
“Screen and Application Sharing
  Share your entire desktop, a single application or region.
Instant Polls
  Check on the status of your meeting by taking live votes on any question …

Where is my Meeting?

Meetings that you schedule in the Meetings tool are available in 3 places:
1) your section/chapter/affinity group website (one time integration setup is required. See “Integration with Existing website” tutorial available here: https://wiki.vtools.ieee.org/bin/view/Main/Meetings/UserManuals )
2) myIEEE “Community” screen under “IEEE Section Activities” module
3) vTools.Meetings site itself : …

Limited vTools outage on Wednesday, August 11

There will be a limited outage of vTools on Wednesday, August 11 2010 due to central system updates. Parts of vTools will not be available from 7 AM to 12 PM Eastern time. Specifically updating WebInABox sites and creating new elections in vTools.Voting will not …

vTools.Meetings version 3.0

This note is to announce a new release of vTools.Meetings version 3.0.  This release adds credit card payment option to the registration functionality and some improvements to the L31 functionality as well as other small bug fixes.
The new version is planned to be deployed on …

Voting tool is now in production

This note is to announce move of the Voting tool into production environment. After a successful Pilot the vTools.Voting tool has entered production phase. vTools.Voting enables volunteers to setup electronic ballot to allow members submit votes in their Section, Chapter, or Affinity Group officer elections online …