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Instructions - amended 10 Feb 2017
By: PaulF Date: May 6, 2016, 10:14 am
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This forum has been created to provide a means for people to
list duties that they wish to swap, as a replacement for the
company email group system. If two people find duties on here
that they would like to swap, this can be requested using Trip
Trades on AIMS. Information about Trip Trades can be found in
the Documents/Crew IT Systems section on the intranet, and
copies of the documents have been placed in this forum
HTML http://swapboard.createaforum.com/how-to-use-this-forum/trip-trades-information.<br
/>Please remember that any swaps remain subject to all flight ti
me
limitations and rostering agreements, and manual overrides
cannot be applied!
How it works - guests
Topics (forum discussion threads) will be created for each rank
and each day, in advance of roster publication. To request a
swap, add the details of the duty you wish to swap as a reply to
the relevant topic. The topics can can be accessed through the
forum Calendar, or through the board hierarchy. If it is a
multiple day duty, put the details in the topic for the first
day of the duty. If you are using this as a guest user, you will
need to include details in your post which will allow people to
identify you - for example, an email address. Note that the
threads are VISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC; not registering to use this
forum is less secure than registering.
If you successfully manage to swap a duty, it would be helpful
to delete the details of your duty from the topic.
How it works - registered users
Registering is simple. You can register as a user either with an
email address or using a social media account. Your profile
includes the option to specify your base, rank, AIMS number and
any roster preferences, and it is only visible to other
registered users. This means that other registered users can
check your profile to obtain these details, and less personal
information need be included in posts. An additional benefit of
being a registered user is that it is possible to be notified of
new posts for a particular topic - if you are interested in
swapping a duty on a specific day, this feature will let you
know when other people are also trying to swap their duty.
The process of submitting a swap request is otherwise the same
as that given for guests above.
Direct messaging
It is possible to send and receive direct (email) messages to
groups of other registered users. The thinking behind enabling
this is to provide a means of actively, rather than passively,
notifying people in your rank that you're looking for a specific
swap. You need to opt in to this.
1) Join the relevant membergroup
In addition to being a registered user, you have to choose to be
in one of the membergroups "LGW Captains", "LGW FOs" or "LGW
Flexi FOs" to be able to send emails like this. This also
filters the requests that are visible to you, including in the
calendar view. Select "Profile" from the menu bar. This opens a
new page, with a "Modify Profile" menu section in the side bar.
Under here, select the "Group Membership" option. You will then
have the option to select from these membergroups.
2) To send an email...
From the menu bar, pick "Admin". You may be asked to re-enter
your password. On the Admin page, in the left side bar, one of
the options is "News and Newsletters". Select this. You will
then be offered a list of possible groups to which you should
send the email. Select the relevant membergroup. At the moment,
this can't be enforced - it is possible to irritate other users
with irrelevant emails - I'm hoping that we can do this without
managing to annoy everyone! Once the right membergroup is
selected, click on "Next" in the bottom right hand corner. In
the next window, you can enter a subject and the text of your
email, and then send it. The email will be sent by the forum -
including [quote]{$member.name}[/quote] in the email will show
who it has come from. Also, note that you can't include images -
if you wish to reference a picture of your roster, please refer
to a topic on the forum.
Thanks!
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