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New tutorials posted today
Today we posted two new tutorials: “Using feeds in vTools.Meeting” and “Schedule a meeting Doodle“. The first tutorial goes in detail over HTML, RSS, iCal, and XML feeds available in the Meetings tool for integration with web pages, RSS readers, calendars, and custom software. The second tutorial will quickly show you how to easily coordinate [...]
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May 8th, 2012
System Maintenance
Upgrade announcement IEEE is upgrading a number of Web sites and systems to bring you enhanced capabilities and an improved experience. As a result between 5AM – 6AM and 9AM – 2PM, Wednesday, 9 May, the following vTools functions will not be available: vTools.Meetings – there will be no ability to validate member numbers for [...]
FluidSurveys Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance: FluidSurveys will be unavailable Monday, May 8th from 10:00 AM to 12:00PM EDT. Thank you for your patience.
vTools.Meetings version 4.1 was released today
We are happy to announce that vTools.Meetings version 4.1 was released today. vTools.Meetings introduces a number of new features and usability enhancements as well bug fixes: New features and usability enhancements System now has “Find Meetings” functionality. “Find Meetings” replaces “View Meetings” and introduces flexible meetings search similar to L31 reports search added [...]
Planned downtime of credit card payment functionality
Due to the scheduled PayPal data center upgrades, vTools.Meetings credit card payment functionality will be unavailable on April 19, 2012 from 10:00 p.m. PDT to approximately 11:00 p.m. PDT. Please let us know if you have any questions. For more details on PayPal downtime see post from PayPal’s technical team - https://www.x.com/node/304976 For time zone conversion see [...]
System maintenance
Upgrade announcement IEEE is upgrading a number of Web sites and systems to bring you enhanced capabilities and an improved experience. Starting Thursday, 29 March through Monday, 1 April, the following functions will not be available: IEEE Shop, join and renew IEEE and IEEE societies, myIEEE, article purchasing on IEEE Xplore and some vTools applications. [...]
Modifying date range and data order in vTools.Meetings feeds (meetings and L31)
If you use XML or HTML feeds, you can easily change the date range of the retrieved meetings or L31 reports by modifying the feed URL. For example, the default XML feed for the Princeton Central New Jersey section meeeting retrieves meetings for the next 90 days: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meetings/xml/0/90/asc/1/PRINCETON~CENTRAL%20JERSEY If you would like to retrieve a [...]
Why can’t I bookmark or link to a specific file in my WebInABox files page?
This is done by design. Big part of the file repository functionality is restricting access via IEEE web account or simple password. Therefore we can not allow one to get to files directly. They have to be “piped” through a browser. This is done to have the most flexibility with access protection levels. In order [...]
vTools.Voting can be used to run officer elections for Councils
vTools.Voting supports Sections, Sub-Sections, Chapters, and Affinity Groups out of the box. However, it can also be used to run officer elections for Councils. Please note, that since a typical Council officer election is larger and can be more complex, vTools.Voting administrator needs to be involved in setting up the ballot. Please contact us to learn [...]
vTools Voting Overview
What it is vTools.Voting is a free tool that enables volunteers to setup electronic ballots to allow members submit votes in their Section, Sub-Section, Chapter, or Affinity Group officer elections online (please note that this is different from the general IEEE elections). Based on the feedback from some of the over 250 elections conducted using the [...]
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