Originally Posted by
PlasticCabDriver
Individually dismantle every link that a particular page had within the page and to all other pages, make the change, re-mantle (?) every link backup again. Repeat for what seemed like an infinite number of pages.
Ah, that explains what happened.
In 1987 the EWO and I created a mass of int data pages. His were complete EW data lists, mine was an interactive orbat system. If we knew an aircraft had crashed we could enter the loss and the numbers throughout the totes would all decrement. Every 6 months when we got the master updates we could trawl through and update the base figures.
All very snazzy and probably too much work for too small an audience.
Next tour at Coningsby, this time as SOMA Manager, I searched for our totes - gone. We had also been guilty of not documenting the links and processes, but when SOMA first came in it was flagged as so user-friendly that it needed neither a manager nor any user instruction.