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Time Date	System Updates
Update 198 3 February 2013	We have implemented two new permissions in HOPS which apply to receiving HOPS updates: Receive Client Update Emails (permission 169): Everyone receiving this e-mail has been allocated new permission number 169, which is a mailing list for Railway HOPS Administrators and Operations Managers. We will send occasional important updates to railway clients via this mailing list, so please make sure at least one person at your railway keeps this permission. This is simply a replacement for the manual mailing list I used to keep. You can adjust who has the permission in the normal way via System > Permissions Admin. Receive Update Emails for all updates (permission 168): There is also a new permission number 168. Users allocated this permission will receive an email updates for all HOPS updates. This is everything that appears on this update list, so is ideal for keeping up to date with all the very latest HOPS developments. We will be adding a button on the System Updates page to allow users to allocate themselves this permission if they wish to subscribe.
Update 157 16 September 2012	HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPS! HOPS is now three years old, having started in the Signalmen's Department at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in autumn 2009. The first group of pilot users was Danny Scroggins, Neil Carr, Dave Wasdell, Peter Smith, Bob Goundry and Peter Wotherspoon, who were very tolerant with the initial scheme and provided a lot of valuable feedback. A model we have maintained to develop HOPS into the shape it is today. The system is now in use, to some greater or lesser extent, in 198 departments, on 32 UK heritage railways, and assists in administering 2798 staff. In the last three years 27,000 turns have been rostered on HOPS and on a weekend day 1000 logins are serviced. The program how has 60,000 lines of code. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to HOPS over the last three years, what a great product you have created! Here's to the next three years. Cheers! Danny, Luke, Alex, Joel, Katharine and Sam.

Time Date

System Updates

Update 198
3 February 2013

We have implemented two new permissions in HOPS which apply to receiving HOPS updates:

Receive Client Update Emails (permission 169):

Everyone receiving this e-mail has been allocated new permission number 169, which is a mailing list for Railway HOPS Administrators and Operations Managers.

We will send occasional important updates to railway clients via this mailing list, so please make sure at least one person at your railway keeps this permission. This is simply a replacement for the manual mailing list I used to keep.

You can adjust who has the permission in the normal way via System > Permissions Admin.

Receive Update Emails for all updates (permission 168):

There is also a new permission number 168. Users allocated this permission will receive an email updates for all HOPS updates. This is everything that appears on this update list, so is ideal for keeping up to date with all the very latest HOPS developments. We will be adding a button on the System Updates page to allow users to allocate themselves this permission if they wish to subscribe.

Update 157
16 September 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPS!

HOPS is now three years old, having started in the Signalmen's Department at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in autumn 2009.

The first group of pilot users was Danny Scroggins, Neil Carr, Dave Wasdell, Peter Smith, Bob Goundry and Peter Wotherspoon, who were very tolerant with the initial scheme and provided a lot of valuable feedback. A model we have maintained to develop HOPS into the shape it is today.

The system is now in use, to some greater or lesser extent, in 198 departments, on 32 UK heritage railways, and assists in administering 2798 staff. In the last three years 27,000 turns have been rostered on HOPS and on a weekend day 1000 logins are serviced. The program how has 60,000 lines of code.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to HOPS over the last three years, what a great product you have created! Here's to the next three years. Cheers!

Danny, Luke, Alex, Joel, Katharine and Sam.

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