The following instructions will guide you in the creation and publishing of the Daily Plan.

1. Open a PUBLISH instance of the Portal

Neither the Public Portal or the Protected Portal will allow you to get access to WIND. You will need to go the a specifically dedicated URL:

https://www.nm.eurocontrol.int/PUBLISH/gateway/spec/index.html

Enter your credentials (UserName and Passcode) on the Login Page:

A new screen appears, prompting you to select the Role and Domain values to be used:

Select the appropriate values and click on the Go button. This will open the NOP:

2. Activate the PreTactical tab

1 Click on the PreTactical tab

2 Click on the now blinking SET button

3. Launch WIND

Click on the WIND Button in the Header:

This action opens the WIND Editor:

4. (Optional)

Change the Portal Time to match the Publication Time of the future Daily Plan - this will allow you to view your work while keeping it hidden from regular NOP users - once the Daily plan has been published...

Click on the highlighted button to access the Portal Time component:

5. Create a new View ...

In the Menu Bar, go to View > Manage and open the View Manager. 

Type the desired name in the View Name text field (for this example, we have entered 'My_Daily Plan') and click on the Create button in the Create a new view section ...

... then click on the Set button in the Set the current view section:

You can check the currently set view in the Header of the WIND window:

6. Prepare and upload the file imports

All pictures and resources are to be uploaded before the creation of the Daily Plan and placed inside the INP_Pictures/2016/ folder.

Click on the File resources tree button (the third one featured in the left navigation column) and locate the desired folder - in this case, the INP_Pictures folder:

With the 2016 target folder selected (highlighted), right-click and select the Add a file resource command:

This will open a new dialog prompting you to specify the file details:

• The Directory field is set by default to the folder from which you invoked the command
• The Type field allows you to select from one of the following file types:
  

1. PORTLET_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in all portlets - main view
   Size: image size must be 75x75 pixels -  This format is not to be used in Daily Plan
2. NEWS_THUMB_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in CFMU News (main view) and HEADLINE NEWS (detached view)
   Size: Image will automatically be resized to 52x52 pixels -  This format is not to be used in Daily Plan
3. SCENARIO_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in SCENARIOS (detached view)
   Size: Image will, if too big, be resized to 720x540 pixels
4. FREESIZE_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in all documents where images can be embedded
   Size: Image size must be at least 90x90 pixels
5. OTHER
   Usage: for all documents other than images

• The File field prompts you to browse the files present on your local file system (from your computer hard disk or any network drive to which you have access) - confirm your choice by clicking on the Select button
  

  Allowed File Types

  WIND only accepts the upload of the files in the following formats:

  • Text (txt, doc, rtf)
  • Html (htm, html)
  • Image (gif, jpeg, png)
  • Powerpoint (ppt)
  • Excel (xlc, xll, xlm, xls, xlw)
    

  Any other format will cause WIND to generate an error message

• Once you have confirmed the target folder, set the file type and selected the file to add to the WIND resources, simply click on the Ok button to initiate the upload process. See the example below with a sample notifications.png file:
  
  

Repeat this routine until all the necessary files are successfully uploaded.

7. Create a Daily Plan

Click on the Typed tree button (the first one featured in the left navigation column) and locate the DailyPlan folder:

You can either create a Plan from scratch, or duplicate an exiting one:

• Create a new document: right-click on the selected (highlighted) folder and select the Create new DailyPlan command:

• Duplicate an document: right-click on the selected (highlighted) source document and select the Copy entity command:

The document is edited in the same way in both methods - the only difference is that the 'cloned' news will already contain some data.

A. Completing the General tab

The General Tab comprises one single panel, dedicated to the following information:

• Applicability Date: the date for which the Plan is of application.
• Keywords: WIND automatically scans the text (title, summary, description, etc.) you enter when creating / editing an item, removes insignificant words such as "a", "the", "in", "for" and tags the remaining words as keywords. Should you wish to further enrich the list of keywords associated to your item, please consider applying the following rules:
  • Comma-separated: use a simple comma to separate keywords - with or without blank space(s)
  • Targeted: use only simple targeted keywords - which are, if not truly unique, very relevant for the topic.
• Display Period: The Display period proposes the following value by default:
  • Start: the date and time of the creation of the item
  • End: "plus infinity" - that is , with no limit in the future
    
    Note: You can modify these values either by entering new figures in the fields, or with the help of the  Calendar and  Clock tools provided here.

    The Calendar icon brings forward a Date Picker with which you can select the desired day with a few mouse clicks:

     

    The Clock icon simply sets the time to "Midnight" - 00:00

    Finally, the  Plus Infinity buttons is a convenient way to make an item visible forever in the future.

• Last update: when relevant, this panel automatically indicates the date of the last update.

B. Completing the Items tab

The Items Tab lists the various parts of the concerned Daily Plan, presented in a three-columns table :

• Type: the type of item - the possible values are HEADLINE (corresponding to what will be displayed in the HOTSPOT section of the Network Plan), EVENT, ACC, NAT, WEATHER and OTHER;
• Title: the value of the Title field (except for type ACC, where this indicates the name of the ACC);
• Last Update: the date the item was last updated.

Managing Items

• The Add button allows you to create new entries - via the // described below
• Use the Delete button to remove the selected item from the list
• Use the Edit button do make changes to the selected item

The Apply button at the bottom of the Edit window will save the changes made to the document being edited - the OK button does the same, and in addition closes the Edit window.

Create a new Item

Click on the Add button to open the Daily Plan Item Editor:

 Then complete all relevant sections according to your objective.

This is how a typical Daily Plan content will look like in WIND:

8. Save your work

The Apply button at the bottom of the Edit window will save the changes made to the document being edited - the OK button does the same, and in addition closes the Edit window.

Should you forget to save your changes, you will be prompted to do so when you close the Edit window.

9. Complete your session

Repeat the relevant previous steps at will until you have achieved your edition objective.

10. Check your data against the system

Go to the View menu and select the Validate and align command. This will run a technical check to validate the changes you made and result in a "0 errors found" messages if everything is OK - or some other message indicating the type of error encountered.

11. Verify your changes

Before publishing, you may also wish to make sure that the changes you are about to have copied to the live server are indeed what you intended to display, by means of a visual check.

Simply return to the header of the Portal and click on the View button - and select in a drop-down list from which of your views (there may be just one item listed there if you have created only one view) you wish to have the content displayed.

12. Check and correct - Editing Daily Plan

In cases where additional corrections, changes or additions would be required, reopen the adequate session (if need be), locate the desired Daily Plan in the list, and select the Edit entity command from the  contextual menu (right-click with the mouse):

Next make the necessary changes and resume the publication process from step 6.

13. Publish

As no errors were encountered during the Validate and Align check, you can now safely click on the Publish command located in the View menu to publish your data in the NOP. As a result, the view used for making the changes is terminated, and removed from the list of available views. Should you wish to make another set of changes, you will have to either open an existing view, or create a new one.

The WIND Text Editor

The Description and Conclusion text areas provide a basic set of formatting tools, allowing you to apply some simple text styles and enhance the presentation of the text

This is the Tagged Text Editor toolbar:

The term 'Tagged Text' refers to the editor inserting specific formatting code instructions within the text - these small pieces of code are named Tags.

Note that this component is not a WYSIWYG editor - it will only show some code, and does not render it as it would be when seen from the NOP.

As for most simple text editors, many of the commands are quite straightforward to understand. This is certainly the case for these:

Undo / Redo: undo (or redo) the last entered changes.

Carriage Return: Inserts a line break each time you click on it, forcing a carriage return.

Bold / Italic / Underline

Simply highlight with the mouse the text you want to edit, then click on the desired button. Should you wish to apply a second style on the same text string, please make sure to only reselect the original text - excluding all tags (tags are HTML commands placed between < > brackets).

Create a List

Clicking on the Create a list button opens a palette where you can enter the following parameters: 

• First choose between a Numbered list or a Bulleted list by means of the drop-down list.
• The next step is to select the desired number of items, with the Length up and down arrows.
• You will then need to individually edit each of the rows of the table to enter the text - simply click and type...

Insert Link

Clicking on the Insert Link button opens the palette below:

Note that it is set by default to Link to a file resource. The Type field allows you to opt for an External link:

First choose between the External link or the Link to a file resource type of link.

Both types work in the same way:

• First select the desired Type.
• Check the Open in a new window box if you want the target page to be opened in a new browser window instead of in the current one.
• In case you did not yet select the text to which apply the change, the next step is to type in the text which will be the label for the hyperlink . If you did so (by first selecting a text string then clicking on the Link button), then the selected text will already appear in the Text field.
• Indicate the path to the target file, in the form of an URL in the case of an external link, or drag and drop an element already available in the File Resources folders. If necessary, follow the instructions provided in Step 4 (upload files).

Example for an external link 

This is, highlighted in a red border, the corresponding code:

Example for an internal link

Drag and drop the file to the File Resource field:

Check that it has been correctly linked:

Insert Date

Clicking on the Insert Date button opens the palette below:

The notions of time and date are at the heart of the NOP. To ensure their accuracy, they are handled in a format different from the ones mostly used. This component has been designed to help you enter / edit times and dates in the Portal format.

To enter a time based data, simply select from the drop-down list the desired format:

• Date
• Time
• Date and Time

Depending on your choice, a calendar and/or a time picker will then invite you to select the date and/or time to appear in your text once you have clicked on the Insert button.

Example

Insert Image

Clicking on the Insert Image button opens the Select the image properties palette. 

• To add an image to your text, simply drag it from the File resources tree.
• Next choose the type of alignment among the following:
  • Left
  • Right
  • Top
  • Bottom
  • Middle
• You may optionally specify the display pixel dimensions of the image (Height and Width) - use this feature when your image is too big to fit (WIND will not automatically resize oversized images).

Example