On 21 July 2010 17:38, Richard Oliver <richol@arrakis.es> wrote: > I return to my message of Monday 19th July at 10.59 h. I have now myself > fallen victim to the new rule instituted by our Quality Control Assurance > Co-ordinator. > > I have just now taken over File Management for SubmitterID gemqueen, a > retired member of my Syndicate (joined October 2007), and - following a > request by Kevin Howell - corrected a file uploaded by her on 23rd December > 2007. > > On pressing the Send button to upload the corrected file I am faced with a > message reading: > > > __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > a.. You do not appear to be a member of a syndicate transcribing this > quarter. Please check you have the correct Year, Quarter and Event or > contact your syndicate coordinator. (Help) > The content of file 1918D4W0195 has been replaced. However, please check > the above warnings and amend the file if necessary (click on the Help link > if you need further information about any of the warnings). > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > Not only was my Syndicate assigned Quarters June, September and December of > 1918 Deaths, and not only am I a member of the Syndicate concerned...... I > was, and am, the Co-ordinator! Something has gone wrong with the system if > I have to spend time worrying about inappropriate messages received on > upload, of which this is the second instance this week. > > Richard Oliver > Madrid, Spain > richol@arrakis.es > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > The new warning message hasn't been introduced on a whim, or as an exercise in annoying co-ordinators! It has been introduced because we do have a problem with whole files being uploaded for an incorrect quarter, and it is not unreasonable that is a transcriber uploads a file apparently for a quarter not allocated to his syndicate we put up a message asking the transcriber to check that this is correct. Clearly there have been a couple of teething troubles, and we need to work out why. Once the teething troubles have been sorted, we will have a system that traps mistakes before they get into the database, which has to be a good thing. -- Dave Mayall