Posted by Stan McCann on 10/06/69 11:42

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in news:doraymeRidThis-
8CD19C.09473616032006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:

> In article <Xns978798F1793CAstanmccann@216.234.192.142>,
> Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:
>
>> I hate all these new windows inflicted on me.
>
> In FF (at least) there is a pref to make these open in tabs. At
> least, this is less irritating, no?
>

Oh yeah, I use that. Unfortunately, this stuff at work "requires" a
new window. I'm not sure what they are doing with it but it won't work
in a new tab; it must be a window opening immediately. The only thing
that's going to get me away from this mess is retirement. Four more
years!

I have to use this stuff as it is how I turn in my leave reports and
approve my employees time. It's what I must use (logging into two
different areas) to verify that students are students and to change
their passwords into this awful system that they use for email,
checking grades, etc.

It's really a sad mess; the systems that I must log into and use to
verify students and fix password problems often has pages with only one
or two links. In one area (approving time), I log in and select an
Employee "tab" (link to another generated page) that has two links on
it, "self service links" and "administration." I don't know what's on
the "administration" page as I have different administrative rights;
I've never used that one. So I click on "self service links" which
refreshes the page opnening the self service links up to links such as
enter time, enter leave, and several others all of which take you to
the same page! And that page has the very same choices to go over
again. On and on.

It takes me a good minute or more just to get to the screen where I can
finally see my employees listed. It really is a rediculous waste of
time. I just can't get over the fact that there are so many steps to
get to what I need; and so many pages where there are only a very small
number of links(choices) and only one of which ever applies to me.
Nice millions$ CMS, huh? Luminus. Bah, I can do better with my
*novice* PHP programming.

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Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Webmaster, NMSU at Alamogordo http://alamo.nmsu.edu/
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