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पूजा सुपरफास्ट - हर रोज़ चलूँ मैं तेरे साथ मंज़िल मंज़िल - by Shubham Yadav

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Blog Entry# 736067
Posted: Apr 27 2013 (21:18)

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Last Response: Jun 06 2013 (17:41)
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Apr 27 2013 (21:18)  
 
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Entry# 736067               Past Edits
As already observed by our Admins Jay Shah & Nazeer in prior posts #suggestionimplemented.
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Details:
1. The Individual Train page now shows the full 120-day Calendar. The dates always start from Today, and go down for the next 4 months. (see Pic 1) There are 3 methods of refreshing:
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Select a date in the Calendar and click on Refresh Availability. The selected Date is highlighted with a Red border. The Availability status is updated in place, for the current Date as well as the coming week.
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b. Go to any date row, and click on the Refresh link to refresh that particular row and coming week. The Availability status is updated in place, for the current Date + next few days.
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c. The extreme right-hand column indicates "Freshness" of the status. When you update the status, the Freshness automatically changes to "0m old". This cached state is useful when the status is a high WL. Even if the status is very old for WL/regret, you don't really have to "Refresh" the status, since it will merely change to a "higher WL number" which may not be very useful. Instead you may go down the list to the Green statuses, and do the Refresh.
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d. The cached status is cleaned out every day. So, the Freshness will never be more than 24 hours old.
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e. The "rotating circles" have been eliminated - replaced with a simple red "wait". This was consequent to a suggestion by our Admin DB.
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f. There is a new "Refresh FULL Calendar" button. Clicking on this will refresh that particular Trains Availability Calendar for the next 120 days. If that Train has a Limited Run, then whatever duration the train runs will be updated.
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2. Within the Search Page:
a. When the First Search Page is brought up, the Availability is pre-populated for all Trains with NEXT date of run of that Train.
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b. Same as above, the rotating circles have been replaced with a simple "wait".
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c. When you expand each row, that Train's Full Availability Calendar can be seen. (see Pic 2).
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d. You can also Refresh that particular individual Train's Availability Status by clicking on the Refresh link within each row.
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3. A New 2-month Availability Calendar page has been created for All Trains between 2 stations (see Pic 3).
a. The Rows are the Dates going from Today forward till the next 2 months.
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b. The Columns are all the Trains that run between the two stations.
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c. Clicking on the Column header - Train Number - will take you to the individual Train's page. Hovering on the header will give you the familiar tooltip summary info for that Train.
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d. At the start of each date Row is a "Refresh" link. Clicking on this link will Refresh the status of All Trains that Run on that Date, as well as the next Few days.
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e. Hovering over each "Availability Cell" will popup tooltips giving details of the Availability Status.
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f. You may ALSO click on each Cell, to update ONLY that particular Train's status for the given Date + the next few days.
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g. The Calendar screen is very Large, may consume a LOT of your browser/computing resources. So please take care while Refreshing. To ease the load, a Train Filter link has been provided at the top, to limit the number of Columns. Other Filtering links will also be provided soon.
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h. There is a Quota drop-down filter at the top. When you select any particular quota, the Calendar will automatically reflect the Status for That Quota ONLY.
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As with all features, bugs will be fixed and further modifications will be made, as per feedback and usage.
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Once again, thanks to all members for the suggestions and enthusiasm.
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#siteannouncement #suggestionimplemented #newfeature

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Jun 01 2013 (18:20)
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Re# 736067-32              
Sir, there seems to be some issue with this feature
I was trying to book tt for 2A for 14676 Shaheed exp between between DLI and GKP for 30/06
irctc showed WL5, whereas IRI showed Avbl 4, after refreshing
m sure this mush be a minor glitch, but still needs to be addressed
Thanks
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Jun 04 2013 (20:34)
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Re# 736067-34              
Thanks for your offer to help. One of the long-standing policies of this site, both with regard to software/hardware development, Admin activities, Site updates, etc. is that we are bold, move fast and take risks. Even with train/station updates, etc., we try not to delay, overanalyze and overthink. If there are issues, they often surface quickly, and are thereafter speedily resolved. Our Admins are actively encouraged to be bold, and not be afraid of making mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes here - Admins, moderator, FMs, members - that's fine. Mistakes are not a problem here, if the ultimate motive is to keep things moving.
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this "move fast/make mistakes/take risks" method, we are able to add major features and upgrade the site very fast. The 3 outages in the past week were unexpected. You may say that yesterday's 2 hour outage helped us quickly roll out a very big site upgrade that may have otherwise taken 1 month of analyzing and learning. Yes, if we had opted to be more careful and avoid outages, it was possible, but the upgrade would have taken more time. However, the risk was by choice, and such outages are unlikely to recur.
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Your offer to help the site is most appreciated, and I shall contact you at a later point regarding any specific questions/help you may provide.
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Thanks.

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Jun 04 2013 (20:42)
GotaTraintoCatch~
GotaTraintoCatch~   2671 blog posts
Re# 736067-35              
Thanks for replying
I completely agree with you, that we learn from our mistakes.
And i'll be more than glad to oblige to help if and when there is any issue where my skills can be useful
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Jun 06 2013 (17:41)
Krishna   906 blog posts
Re# 736067-36              
Sir Any possibility for my suggestions?
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