[ANSTHRLD] College of Heralds Internal Submissions

[Joseph Percer]

Whoops, I forgot the link!

https://oscar.sca.org/kingdom/ansteorra.php

That link will allow you to access Ansteorra's OSCAR page. Persons
with CoA commenting privileges can access it from either that URL, or
the 'kingdom' link on the OSCAR menu from the regular login of
http://oscar.sca.org

Andrewe
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Andrewe Bawldwyn
<kingdom at herald.ansteorra.org> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Some of you might be on the SCA-Heralds emailing list, and have seen
> Master Istvan's announcement about OSCAR's newest capability. For
> those of you who aren't acquainted with it, the SCA uses OSCAR (Online
> System for Commentary and Response) to handle all it's College of Arms
> level submissions processing. We've been utilizing this system for
> several years now to handle our Letters of Intent and CoA commentary.
> What's changing is that OSCAR will now allow us to handle our internal
> letters on this system as well. In light of this change, we'll be
> beginning the process of fully migrating to OSCAR for submissions. It
> is expected that this change will greatly benefit submissions
> processing for Ansteorra, as there are many features that will make
> the life of our two submissions deputies much easier.
>
> If anyone would like full on technical details, please contact me
> off-list, and I'll be happy to provide. For the masses though, here's
> a slightly watered down version of everything. I apologise for the
> tl;dr-ness of this missive.
>
> It's my ChristmaHanuKwanzikah wish that we will be able to roll out
> with this as of the February 2012 ILoI, but that is certainly flexible
> for sooner or later. Parts of the December 2011 ILOI are already
> active, and we may be publishing parts of the January 2012 ILoI to
> OSCAR to allow people to get used to OSCAR commentary but at this time
> ACE will be the official medium for the December 2011 and January 2012
> ILoIs. Some details are still being worked out but I wanted to make
> sure to give everyone advanced notice. We will be going over this at
> King's Round Table in January.
>
> Submitters should notice no change in processing times or end-results.
> Internal Letters will still be visible without OSCAR logins, and
> internal commentary will be visible and public. Istvan has set each
> kingdom up with an interface where there is no accidental interaction
> with Laurel level items, or indeed other Kingdoms unless the user
> purposely navigates off that particular kingdom interface. Therefore,
> much of the OSCAR functionality should remain "invisible" to non-CoA
> users.
>
> One OSCAR login will work for any kingdom or Laurel, provided the user
> is granted the proper permissions. In this case, I'm intending to have
> anyone with CoA permissions as able to comment on Ansteorran letters.
> All other users will be granted commentary privileges as they create
> their accounts. IF you have an OSCAR account already, you need not
> (and please don't) create a new one. If you're not sure, get in touch
> with me and I can look at the users list to help figure that out. If
> you don't have a login and you wish to comment, create one and I'll
> get you approved for in-kingdom commentary.
>
> ILoIs will continue to be published by Asterisk on the usual schedule.
> He and I are working together to make as seamless a transition as
> possible.
>
> Commenters will notice a slightly different commenting interface but
> nothing substantial should change. There are some finer points about
> OSCAR commentary worth mentioning: A carriage-return will print one
> blank line below the end of your current line:
>
> This is some text (Carriage Return)
>
> This is some more text.
>
> If you want to make a single line-return, you'll need to put in the
> HTML line-break code <br> --
>
> This is some text<br>This is some text becomes:
>
> This is some text
> This is some text.
>
> Other than that, OSCAR commentary is mostly the same as ACE.
>
> If you have any questions, please do get in touch with me.
>
> Andrewe
> Star
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Joseph M. Percer, AAS, LP