Yeah, moving or duplicating that “My Profile” link to the left hand menu is a must…
In the context of the rest of VP it’s not an obvious location.
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I’m guessing a number of people will have requested this though the feedback thing. Hopefully politely!
Yeah, I should imagine so.
There’s a logic to having ‘under’ the profile picture, since that’s where the similar “my account” option is located in MS365, and I’m sure that’s probably why they’ve done it. But with everything else in VP available in the left menu this really ought to be there too.
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It’s also identical to where it is in SMS currently, which is why I thought to look there. But it definitely took a second!
Ah yes, that’s true.
Took me a bit longer (several times looking) - but I got there…
Finally logged in.
It’s a step in the right direction.
Are you going to eventually display the number of VA days claimed/remaining?
Number of journeys claimed?
Number of HTD claimed?
Apologies if already asked.
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Good questions.
An ‘autoclaim’ option would be nice thankyou please 
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Email sent this morning and I got one back near 7pm with a temp password to log in. Now I get to catch up on the courses that I have to yawn through I am no longer going through the OC, I got my big adult pants this morning haha cheers for the pointer of who to search and contact @themajor
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Latest updates on VP/AP available at:
VP: https://rafac.sharepoint.com/sites/BADERHub/SitePages/Volunteer-Portal-Release.aspx
AP: https://rafac.sharepoint.com/sites/BADERHub/SitePages/Admin-Portal-Release.aspx
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So the Army cadets are getting online VA/HTD/Travel claims on the 10th of July.
From what I understand they have a cadet and CFAV portal similar to ours. And they seem to be moving a lot faster with the transition over to digital than we are.
This is absolutely not a criticism of the RAFAC Digital Team. I think our team is fundamentally understaffed. There’s too few people doing too much work. The work that is being done is fantastic though.
So two questions, why did we not just move over to Westminster/Cadet Portal instead of spending a lot of time and effort on our own system? And why is the other cadet portal (that the ACF/CCF/VCC (and others?) use) progressing so much faster than ours?
It seems we’ve got a group of volunteers and perms within our organisation (Digital team) that are duplicating the work that is already going on for the ACF/CCF/VCC.
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I think because they pay for it (fundamentally).
So is it a case of them having access to more CS staff then us, and so can employ a bigger team of developers? And rely less on a voluntary led team?
My personal opinion: it’s a cultural issue.
Look at anything that goes wrong in RAFAC and we see the blame being passed down the chain. With that mindset, there is no change-led culture or any real motivation to improve the situation for the CFAV.
Astra has the potential to change this, slowly, but I don’t think Astra penetrates the lower levels of the echelons well enough to generate the mass of feedback that would be required to influence changes at the more senior levels. I’m open to any contrary information anyone would have on this.
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Isnt that two questions, Why didn’t we join Westminster back in the day? and Why don’t we switch over to Westminster now?
It’s always struck me as odd that everyone else uses Westminster, except for one half of RAFAC.
I believe there is some sort of weird licensing cost as Westminster is third party not in house.
As such if the ATC adopted it they would end up paying a lot more money & not be able to make changes in they way they can now, at least without going through the other cadet forces.
There has been numerous papers on this over the years but the most efficient & cost effective option was to develop a third brand new system for use by all the organisations (guess what won’t happen)
Given the amount of work being put into Westminster, I seriously doubt there will be any appetite to move to something else anytime this decade.
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