**Recreation Management Information System**

**RMiS**

A Telecast Originating from the BLM National Training Center

September 23, 1999

This transcript is from the closed-captioning file produced during the
telecast.

It may contain errors and omissions in transcription.

Announcer: the Bureau of Land Management Satellite Network Presents Live
from the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona, the
Recreation Management Information System. Course 8300‑11. An Interactive
Training Program On the New 3.0 Version of RMiS, Which Is Hosted on the
BLM Intranet. And Now, the Host of Your Program, Harold Johnson.

Harold: Good Morning, Everyone. Welcome to Our Training System. Joining
Me Today for this RMiS Training Is Anna Atkinson from Our Palm Springs
California Office, Good Morning, Anna.

Anna: Good Morning.

Harold: We Are Field Users. We Are Excited about Using the New Field of
RMiS.

Anna: RMiS Is a Web Based Application. This Makes it Easier for You to
Enter, Track, Store, Retrieve Your Recreation Data. Today We Will Learn
How to Access the Database Using the BLM\'s Intranet and Give You a
Brief Overview of RMiS 3.0. Then We\'ll Practice Entering New Data.
Finally, We Will Show You How to Retrieve Data from the System.
Remember, since RMiS Is on the Intranet, it Is Only Available To BLM
Employees.

Harold: to Help You with Today\'s Training Session, You Should Follow
along in Your RMiS User Guide Which Was Sent to Your Office. You Can
Download this Document From the Training Enter Home Page. We Won\'t Be
Following the Book In Sequential Page Order since It Was Designed as a
Standalone Tool for You to Use Following Today\'s Broadcast. Throughout
the Broadcast, We Will Reference Important Pages In the Guide So You Can
Find the Key Points That We Are Demonstrating as We Go Along.

Anna: It\'s Important That You Keep Your User Guide after Today\'s Tell
Cast since You Will Need to Use it as You Enter Your Fy99 Recreation
Data. The Guide Also Has a Listing of All RMiS Team Members in Appendix
D on Page 72. The List Identifies Team Members, Their Phone Numbers and
E‑mail Addresses. These Folks Are a Valuable Resource for You. So Feel
Free to Call Them.

Harold: Due to the Technical Nature of Today\'s Session, We Encourage
You to Record this Broadcast at Your Office to Refer to the Tape Later.
Halfway Through the Program, We\'ll Be Taking a 15‑minute Break.

Anna: Throughout this Broadcast, We Want to Hear from You. If You Have a
Question or Comment for Us at Any Point During or Presentation, Please
Give Us a Call or Send Us a Fax Using the Numbers Provided in Your User
Guide.

Harold: We\'ll Get to Your Questions as Fast as We Can, and We\'ve
Reserved Time at the End Of the Show for a General Question and Answer
Sessions. Now to Get Things Started Let Talks about the Importance of
Recreation Data.

Anna: Good Data Is Important To Respond to Requests for Information,
Justifying the Importance of Your Program to Local Economies, Managing
Recreation Use, Tracking Use and Revenue Trends and Making Management
Decisions. RMiS Provides an Overview of Your Entire Recreation Program.
For Your Manager and Others Who Are Responsible for Funding Your
Program, Your Data Is Also Useful in Planning Environmental Documents or
to Show Fees Collected at Sites and Srps Your RMiS Data for Fiscal Year
1999 Needs to Be Entered by Friday, October 15th, 1999. See Start
Entering it Today. Harold, Is All of Our Historical Data Going to Be in
the New System in Fiscal Year 1999?

Harold: That\'s a Good Question, Anna, No. You Will Enter Your Fy99 Data
Into the RMiS 3.0 System Which Does Not Currently Have Your Historic
Data in It. Your RMiS 2.4 Database Needs to Remain on Your Office Pc
until You Can Convert it into the New System. You Are the Owner of Your
Offices Historical Records. It\'s Important That You Keep Access to RMiS
2.4 Data at a Pc In Your Office. This Is Where Your Data Will Be Until
It\'s Converted. Just to Be Safe, Make Sure You\'ve Archived Your Entire
RMiS 2.4 System and Store it Off‑site. Remember You Are the Only One Who
Has the Sole Data, So Protect It. We Plan to Put Your Historic Data into
RMiS 3.0 at the End of Fiscal Year 2001. Because the 99 Data Is Use
Being Entered in the Intranet, Once You Enter It, Save It, You Are Done.
It Can Be Viewed by All Other BLM Offices, but Only Your Office Can Edit
It. Well, If You Are Ready, We\'ll Take a Look at RMiS 3.0, You Can
Follow along on Page 4 of Your User\'s Guide. Anna, Kick Things off by
Introducing Everyone to the System and Showing Us the Log in Procedures.

Anna: in this Session You Will Learn to Access 3.0 Through The Intranet
and Your Office Data by Correct Procedures. To Get into RMiS, You Will
Need To Access BLM Intranet. I\'ve Done So as You Can See on The Screen.
I Double Clicked on Netscape Icon. Your System May Be Set up
Differently. It\'s Important If You Are Having Troubles to Contact Your
System Administrator for Help. At the Location Prompt in the Center of
the Screen, Type in The RMiS Address Which Is Rmis.azso.az.blm.gov.
Press Enter. This Gets You into the Log in Page. From Here You Can
Bookmark it by Clicking on Bookmark and Adding A Bookmark. This Is Good
for You to ‑‑ to Get into the System Easier in The Future. And as You
Can See, this Is How We Get into the RMiS Log in Screen. There Are Two
Ways to Get into The System. You Can Log‑in as a Guest and Instructions
for this Are Found On Page 6 of the User Guide. This Way You Can Look at
Other\'s Data. You Can Also Log in as a User, And You Can Edit Your Own
Office\'s Data. This Is Found in Your User Guide On Page 5. I\'m Going
to Demonstrate That. On Your Screen, at the Log‑in Prompt, You Type in
Your Office Code. Which Is ca 660 and Then You Can Tab or Click into the
Password Box and Type in Your Password. In this Case It\'s ca 660, and
You Can Either Click on the Login or You Can Just Press Enter. And this
Takes Us to the Office Information Page. And the Office Information Page
Is Where You Find Your Main Menu Keys. If You Have Problems Logging in
Today after the Show, You Can Call Us at the National Training Center,
See Your User Guide for The Numbers. Afternoon on Friday, Then Call Your
Team Representative in Their Home Office. Harold, What\'s Next?

Harold: the Data Quality Checklist. This Checklist Is Critical for You
to Go Through and Make Sure Your Data Is Correct. Find it on Page 65 of
Your User\'s Guide. You Need to Check Your Fy99 Data In RMiS 3.0 for
Accuracy. Anna, Why Is Checking the Data So Important?

Anna: Your 1999 Data Was Converted and Put into the New System, However,
Some of Your Data May Not Have Been Converted Correctly or at All. It\'s
Important to Double Check All of Your Data, Including Your Visitor Use
Formulas. This Data Quality Checklist Is Provided as a Tool to Help You
Do This. If You Turn to Page 65, You Can See the Checklist Is Broken
into Major Components of RMiS, with a Series of Questions under Each.
When You Get into the Components Within the Program, Take Time to Check
Your Data Using the Data Quality Checklist. That Goes for You, Too,
Harold.

Harold: Hey, No Problem, Anna. I Enter Our Barstow Data Every Month,
That Way, I Don\'t Have a Crisis at the End of the Year. I Muse the Lis,
Double Check the Programmer\'s Work So I Know I\'ve Got the Right Stuff.
Let\'s See How the New RMiS Looks By Starting at the Office Information
Screen. This Screen Is the Main Page You Will Use as You Navigate
Through RMiS. It Provides You with the Menu Buttons to Access All
Features Of the System as Well as Basic Information of Your Office.
It\'s like the Home Page of the RMiS Program. Following along Starting
on Page 7 in Your User\'s Guide.

Anna: Ok, Let\'s Talk about The Logic of the Screen Arrangement
Comparing it to RMiS 2.4. On the Left‑hand Side of the Screen, You Will
Find the Main Menu Buttons That Get You into The Major Components of 3.0
to Make and Edit Data. These Buttons Include the Log‑out Button, Which
Is Found On All of the Information Screens, and Is the Way That You Exit
the Program. The Rma Button Is Where You Record Site Information,
Formulas and Visitor Use. Area Designations, Rivers, Trails, Srps,
Partnerships and Agreements and Golden Permits Are Where You Record
Related Information Similar to 2.4. In Roads, Our New Component. This Is
Where Driving for Pleasure and Recreation Information Related to Roads
Is Stored. By Ways Are a Specific Type of Designation Found in this
Component. Driving for Pleasure Is the Number One Recreational Activity
In the United States, and We Forgot to Have a Place to Track It in RMiS
2.4, So 3.0 Allows You to Record and Report this Important Information.
The Srp Address Was Also in 2.4, But Was Located under the Utilities
Menu. Now It\'s Located on the Main Menu Screen for Better Access. One
of the Best Features Is the Addition of the Formulas Button Which We
Can\'t See and the Visitor Use Button. Let Me Go over to the Right‑hand
Side of the Screen and Scroll Down to Show You Those Two Buttons, and
I\'m Going Back over To the Left‑hand Side. We Have Formulas and Visitor
Use. These Make it Quick and Easy to Edit Formulas and Visits, or to
Record New Ones. In the Middle of the Screen ‑‑ Let Me Scroll Back Up.
‑‑ You Will Find Component Information. For Example, Here We See the
Office Information Displayed. In the Lower Portion of the Screen, You
Will See Drop‑down Lists of Rmas, Areas, Rivers, Roads, Trails, Special
Recreation Permits, Partnerships ‑‑ Let Me Go down a Little Bit ‑‑ and
That\'s It. These Are for Your Office. These Will Only Appear If Your
Office Has Data in It. There Are Two Types of Screens In RMiS 3.0. There
Are Information Screens And There Are Editor Screens. Information
Screens Are for Viewing and Editor Screens Are For Changing Existing or
Entering New Data. The Hyper Links Allow You to Get Into the Editor
Screens. These Are the Blue Underer Lined Texts. All You Need to Do Is
Single Click on the Text Using the Left Mouse Button. Let Me Just Show
You This. Here on the Office Information Screen, We Have at the Name
Prompt, We Have a Hyper Link, The Blue Underer Lined Text. If I Click on
It, it Takes Me Into the Editor Page, and this Is Where We Can Make
Changes. As You Can See, the Look of RMiS 3.0 Is Very Different from
2.4, But the Logic and the Data Are Still the Same. Let\'s Talk Briefly
about Some Other Key Changes Between 2.4 And 3.0. The 2.4 Database Menu
Was a List Of Major RMiS Components and Was The Place You Entered Your
Data. The 3.0 Database Menu Is Located On the Left Side of the Office
Information Screen. It Includes All That Was in 2.4 Database Menu, and
Some Extra Features. RMiS 2.4 Reports Were Located Under the Reports
Menu, and Include Standard and Custom Reports. This Is Still Very
Similar in 3.0, but the Button for Standard And Custom Reports Are Now
Found On the Left Side of the Office Information Screen. The 2.4
Defaults and Lists Menu Has Been Removed and Is No Longer Needed. In
3.0, These Lists Appear Within the Application as Drop‑down Menus and
Can Only Be Modified by Contacting Your System Administrator. 2.4
Utilities Menu Has Also Been Removed. The 3.0 Version No Longer Needs
You to Do Backups or Archives, Import or Export Data, Start a New Fiscal
Your or Index a New Database. The Origin of Use Data Has Been Removed.
You No Longer Need to Enter this Information. The 2.4 Exit Has Been
Replaced By the Logout Button.

Danger, Danger Will Robinson.

Harold: Make Sure You Use The Logout Button in RMiS Before Exiting or
Closing out Your Browser. If You Don\'t, Other People Have Access to
Your Data and Can Change It. It\'s Your Data, Protect It. Log Out!

Anna: We Have New Buttons Had Added to Save Time by Using Fewer Clicks.
These Include Formulas and Visitor Use. Lastly, I\'d like to Point out
That You Can Access RMiS 3.0 Any Time, from Any Office That Has a
Computer Set up to Access the Intranet. RMiS 3.0 Was Designed to Work on
BLM\'s Standard Browser, Which Is Netscape. You Can Access it from Other
Browsers, but the Screens May Look Different. How Does this Look to You,
Harold?

Harold: It\'s Already Looking Better to Me. One Thing I Wanted to Add,
Anna, This Is Really an Introduction To the System. It\'s an
Orientation. It\'s Not ‑‑ While It\'s Technical In Nature, It\'s Put in
Here to Allow You to Learn Your Way Around the System, Which Is Deployed
as of Today. There Will Be More Technical Training in the Future. So
Keep That in Mind. Remember, If You Have Questions As We Go Along,
Please Feel Free To Fax Them or Call Us on the Numbers Provided in Your
User Guide. Anna, Does the Edit Function Work the Same as it Did in RMiS
2.4?

Anna: Not Really, Harold. Why Don\'t I Show You a Screen Before I Go
into Using the System. Let\'s Look at the Office Information Editor. The
Office Editor Allows You to Make Changes to Your Office Information.
Beginning on Page 9 of Your User\'s Guide, You Will Find Information on
the Office Editor Functions. From the Office Information Screen, I Had
Clicked on the Hyperlink to Get into this Office Editor Screen. There
Are a Few Things I Would Like to Point Out. To Get to Any Editor Page,
You Will Use the Hyperlink. On Some Monitors, Your Editor Screen Will
Appear a Different Color Brand than the Main Menu, Than the Main Screen.
Now That We Are in the Editor Screen, You Will Notice Different Function
Keys on the Left Side. The Standard Buttons You Will See Will Be
\"Undo,\" \"Cancel\" and \"Save\". Undo Saves the Unclear Edits and
Stays in the Editor Screen So You Can Continue to Make Changes. Can Sell
Is the Same as Undo. It Clears All Unsaved Edits, but It Returns You to
the Previous Information Screen. When this ‑‑ Use this When You Decide
You No Longer Want to Make Any Edits to the Page. Save Stores All of
Your Changes In the Database and Returns You To the Previous Information
Screen. Some Editor Screens Have a Delete Button. This Button Will
Delete the Entire Record and it Is a Very, Very Powerful Button, it
Deletes All of the Information in Your Database for the Item You Are
Working On. So Make Sure You Really Want to Delete the Information. If
You Say Yes after the Warning Statement Comes Up, Your Data Is Gone, and
You Cannot Get it Back.

Harold: Anna, One Critical Thing We Haven\'t Mentioned Yet Is the
Procedure for Moving Backwards and for Wards in the System. There\'s
Important Information in The User Guide on Page 10. Make Sure You Only
Use the RMiS Buttons to Navigate Around the Edit Pages. Never Use
Netscape Back or Forward Buttons or You Will Lose Your Unsaved Edits.
Only Use Save, Undo, Cancel or Delete Options Given in Your RMiS Menu.
Now That We\'ve Had an Orientation to the Layout of RMiS, We Are Ready
to Started Continuing and Saving Data. Following along on Page 7 as We
Begin Putting Information into The System. Ok, Anna, We\'ve Gone over
Lots Of up Front Stuff. How Do We Actually Use the New System.

Anna: the First Time You Use Your New System Make Sure You Change Your
Pass Word. Instructions Are Found in Appendix C on Page 71. After
You\'ve Changed Your Password, It\'s Time to Update Your Office
Information. I\'d like to Demonstrate How to Update this Information.
Let Me Go Back to the Office Information Screen. At the Office
Information Screen, Click the Hyperlink Text. I\'m Going to Go Ahead and
Do That. It Takes Me to the Editor Screen. At the Editor Screen, I Can
Edit The Pass Word, the Name, the Address, the Phone Number and The Fax
Number. And I\'m Going to Demonstrate the Three Buttons on the Left‑hand
Side by Using the Fax Number. I\'m First Going to Enter in a Fax Number
That Is Wrong. And I Made a Mistake, Oops, So I\'m Going to Go over to
the Left‑hand Side of the Screen and Click on the Undo Button. And as
You Can See, down at the Bottom, it Stayed on the Editor Screen and it
Cleared the Fax Number. Now, I\'m Going to Demonstrate How to Use the
Cancel Button. At the Fax Prompt, I Type in the Wrong Fax Number. And I
Made Another Mistake, So I\'m Going to Go Back to the Left‑hand Side of
the Screen and Click on the Cancel Button. This Takes Me Back to the
Office Information Page and as You Can See at the Fax Prompt, There Is
No Fax Number. So it Just Cleared It. Now, If I Go Back into the Editor
Page ‑‑ Let Me Go Back at the Name Prompt, Click the Hyperlink, I\'m At
the Office Editor. I Go down to the Bottom. Now I\'m Going to Put in the
Correct Fax Number. I like That Change, That\'s What I Want, So I\'m
Going to Go to The Left‑hand Side of the Screen And Click on the Save
Button. This Will Save My Edit, and as You Can See, on the Office
Information Screen, the Fax Number Has Appeared and it Is The Correct
Fax Number. We\'ll Talk about Retrieving the Data Towards the End of the
Show. Harold, What Shall We Talk about Next?

Harold: How about Those Arizona Diamondbacks? Whoops, Wrong Show. How
about If We Start with the Basics for Entering Fy99 Data? At this Point,
Please Follow Along on Page 12 of Your User\'s Guide as We Begin to
Enter Data. For the Purposes of this Training Session, We Have Made
Update at That to Illustrate the Procedures You Need to Accomplish When
Entering Your Information. Anna, Where Do We Start?

Anna: the Best Place to Start Is at the Top of the Menu, Which Is the
Rma Button. If I Click on the Rma Button on The Left‑hand Side of the
Screen, it Takes Me into the Recreation Management Area Information
Page. Let Me Run Through the Buttons On the Left‑hand Side. We Have the
Logout Button, We Have the Office Button, and this Will Take You Back to
the Office Information Screen Where You Can Access Other Components of
the System. We Have the Sites Button, Where You Can Get into the Site
Information Page. We Have the Move Sites, Where You Can Move Sites from
One Rma To Another. And this Was in 2.4, but it Was Located under the
Utilities Menu, So It\'s Placed Here to Make it Easier for You to Use.
And We Have the Visitor Use Button Where You Can Enter Your Visitor Use
for Sites or Srps. In the Middle of the Screen, We Find the Information
Related to The Recreation Management Areas. To Select an Rma, You Go
over to The down Arrow Key by the Rma Prompt, and You Click on It. And
this Gives You the List of All of Your Rmas for Your Office. To Select
an Rma, You Can Highlight it by Putting the Cursor over it and Licking
on It, and this Will Select it and Then You Go over to the Select
Button, and this Will Select All Of the Information Related to That Rma.
Once this Rma Is Selected, You Have an Option of He Had Continuing it or
Going into the Sites Information. Here I Want to Show You How to Ed Did
it the Rma Information. To Do This, We Go down to the Name Prompt Where
the Hyperlink Is and Click on the Hyperlink. In this Case It\'s Eastern
Riverside County. For Example, We Can Edit Rma Data, and I Want to Do an
Example Here on Ohv Acres. So, for Example, If the Number Of Acres
Designated Has Changed In Any of the Ohv Acreage Designations Then You
Can Edit Them Here. If I Scroll Down, We Can See the Designation. In
this Case, I Want to Edit My Open Acres. Here I Don\'t Have Any
Recorded. And Let Me Put Some In. Once I\'ve Made the Change, I Can Go
Back up to the Top and Look On the Left‑hand Side of the Screen and We
Have the Recalculate Button, and the Recalculate Button Allows You to
Check the Data Entries You\'ve Just Made out Saving the Information to
the Database, and It Leaves You Right on the Edit Tore Page. This Is
Helpful. It Gives You the Recalculated Sum Right on the Edit Screen and
You Can Save the Data Once You Have it like You Want It. For Ohv
Designation Entries, Notice That the Total Acres Numbers Does Not
Change. This Number Is Your Total Acres For Your Rma. The Total
Designation Acres Will Change as You He Had Did it the Number of Acres
in Each Type of Designation, Open, Limited or Closed. And to Make Your
Changes and Save Them, You Click on the Save Button. You May Also Need
to Edit or Add Data Related to Your Office Recreation Sites. And as You
Can See, on the Left‑hand Side of Your Rma Information Page, We Have a
Sites Button. So If We Click on the Sites Button, this Gets Us into Our
Site Information.

Harold: Anna, Can the State Office Change Any of the Data That\'s in
Here?

Anna: the State Office Can Only Change Data for Their Office. They
Can\'t Change it for Anybody Else. One Thing That\'s Important to Do,
When You Log into Your System for the First Time, You Need to Change
Your Password. No One Will Be Able to Get into Your Data Because You Are
the Keeper as of the Password. No One Will Be Able to Access Your Data
If You Change Your Password and Keep It. We Are Now in the Site
Information Page and I Want to Go along the Left‑hand Side of The
Screen, and You\'ll See the Buttons Labeled Logout, Office, Rma, Which
Takes You Back to the Rma Information Page, We Have a New Button, Which
Allows You to Add a New Site to the Rma That You Are Currently In. We
Have Formulas Where You Can Record Your Visitor Use Formula. We Have BLM
Fees, and this Button Will Only Appear If Your Site Has Fees Related to
It. We Have Your Entrance Fees, Your Rups and Your Registrations and
These Are All Similar to 2.4. Let Me Move the Cursor down and Scroll
down to ‑‑ We Have the Journal Button Where You Record Your Visitor Use
Journal Data And Your Visitor Use Button. And at the Middle of the Page,
We Have Our Site Information. And Here You Can Select Your Site by
Clicking on the down Arrow Key next to the Site Prompt, and You Can
Highlight Your Site, Click on It, Press Select, and You\'ll See the
Information in the Middle Change, and Here it Changed to Corn Springs
Campground. For Site Information, We Have Your Site Name, Your Real
Property Number, Your Acres, Your Primary Site Type, and If I Go Back
into the Editor Page, I\'ll Show You the Primary Site Type. You Can
Click on the Prompt next To It, and You\'ll Get the List Of All of the
Primary Site Types Laid out for You. You Have Land Ownership. Your
Month, Day Open to the Public. You Have Your Management Responsibility.
Your BLM Fee Status. Your Entrance Fees, and Your Project Plan. Now, I
Want to Show You How You Can Add a New Site to Your Rma. Let Me Cancel
out of the Editor Page and Go over to the Left‑hand Side of the Site
Information Screen and Click on New, Add Site to this Rma. The Site
Editor Page That Comes Up at the Site Name Prompt, it Will Show New
Site. So You Know this Is Where You Can Enter Your New Site. On the
Left‑hand Side of the Screen You\'ll See the Delete Button That We Had
Mentioned Before. Now, Let Me Go Ahead and Enter Some Data for this
Site. At the Site Name Prompt, I\'m Going to Name a Site Soupy Springs,
and Then I\'m Going to Assign it a Real Property Number.

Harold: Where Do the Real Property Numbers Come From, Anna?

Anna: the Real Property Numbers Come from Your Fimms Person. That\'s
Where You Can ‑‑ You Contact Your Fimms Person in Your Office or in the
State Office, and They Will Assign You A Real Property Number to Your
Site. If You Have a Site That Doesn\'t Have Facilities on it but You
Still Do a Lot of Management out There, Then You Can Assign it a Number
on Your Own, and I Think We\'re Using the 8,000 Series for That? Is That
Right?

Harold: So I Just Contact the Person Who Takes Care of My Office\'s
Facilities Inventory Maintenance Management System And Either a Number
Has Been Assigned or We Can Assign One?

Anna: That\'s Correct.

Harold: Thank You Very Much.

Anna: Now If We Go to Our Acres Prompt, We Can Put in Some Acres.
That\'s a Big Site. And at the Primary Site Type Is Where I Select the
Type of Site It Is, So Here We\'ll Select Swimming Area. In Our Land
Ownership, We Can See the List for That If We Click on the down Arrow.
It Defaults to Public Domain. In this Case, That\'s What We Want. At the
Month and Day Open to Public, this Is Where You Can Change It. Currently
It\'s Set for You to Change for the Month and the Day As Two Digit
Numbers. At Management Responsibility, You Have the Option of Choosing
BLM, Lease, R&pp Partnership. In this Case, it Will Just Be BLM. And
Here at the BLM Fee Status, This Is Where We Decide Whether The Site Is
a Fee Site or If it Doesn\'t Meet Criteria or If it Meets Criteria and
There Are No Fees Collected. In this Case We\'ll Just Leave it As it Is.
It Doesn\'t Meet Fee Criteria. Then We Have Our Project Plan Where We
Can Add a New Project Plan If We Have One for the Site. Otherwise, We
Have a Default That Comes up as None. Will This, You Can Enter in Notes
at the Note Pad.

Harold: Is There a Drop‑down List for Project Plans like We Had in it
2.4?

Anna: If You Had Project Plans in Your Database in 2.4, Those Should
Have Been Converted When We Converted Your Fy1999 Data. If You Don\'t
Have Project Plans, Sometimes They Didn\'t Convert Right. In My Case,
I\'m Going to Have to Add Some Project Plans In, But, Yeah, They Should
Be in There. You Should Be Able to Click on That Arrow Key and Pull up
Your Project Plan List.

Harold: in RMiS 2.4, When I Put Notes In, They Couldn\'t Be Read by
Anybody Else When the Information Went to the District Office and State
Office and Washington Office. The Notes Were Not Visible to Anybody
Else. They Didn\'t Transfer. In this System, Will the Notes Be
Accessible to Everybody?

Anna: in this System, the Note Pad Is Going to Be Accessible by Anybody
That Goes Into Your Information and Takes A Look at It. There Is No Way
for Us to Block It. Actually, It\'s a Good Thing to Let Other People See
What You Are Doing.

Harold: as Long as You Are Careful about What You Put in Your Notes.

Anna: That\'s Right. So Once We Have Made All of Our Edits or Made Our
New Site, Put All of the Information in There, We Can Go Back over to
the Left‑hand Side of the Screen and We Can Save this Record. So Let Me
Click on the Save Button. And We Get Back to the Site Information
Screen. And in the Center of the Screen, You Can See Our Site Soupy
Springs and All of the Information Related to it Is Located in the
Screen. Also, I Want to Point out That We Do Have at the Bottom of the
Screen, Another Hyperlink. And this Is at the Visitor Use Formula
Prompt. If We Click on the Visitor Use Formula Hyperlink, You Can See
That It\'s a Default Formula. For Every Site That We Create, You Have a
Default Formula. Once You\'ve Made Your Site, You\'ll Probably Want to
Change That Default Formula to Something That Relates to That Site. So
We Clicked on the Hyperlink And We Got into the Site Visitor Use
Formula. And Then We Have Another Hyperlink That Takes You into The
Editor Page. This Is Where You Can Make Edits To That Formula. So Let Me
Go Ahead and Click on The Default Formula. And We Get into the Site
Visitor Use Formula Editor. And this Is Where We Can Create The Formula
for That Site, Soapy Springs. Let Me Show You How to Do That. At the
Name Prompt, We Type in The Name of the Formula, in this Case I\'ll Name
it Soapy Springs. Down at the Visitor Activity, We Have a down Arrow Key
Where We Click on it and We Will Get the List of All of the Activities
in The System Will We\'ll Click on Swimming, since That Was Our Primary
Site Type. Then We Can Go over and Change The Average Hours and the
Percentages by Just Clicking in The Box and Making the Changes. If ‑‑ If
You Want to Insert Another Activity, Go over to the Insert Key on the
Right‑hand Side of Your Screen and Click Insert. And this Takes You to
Where You Can Add Another Activity. And We\'ll Just Add Another One Real
Quick. And We\'ll Just Leave the Average Hours the Same but Change the
Percentage to 10%. And Once We\'ve Looked at Our Formula and Created
One, We Can Go Back over to the Left‑hand Side of the Screen and Click
the Save Button, If That\'s the Way We like It. So I Click Save, and You
Can See Your Site Visitor Use Formula Is Now on the Screen. We Can Save
this Formula to a Master List by Clicking on the Save to a Master.

Harold: Anna, If You Don\'t Add up to 100% Do You Get a Warning on the
Screen like We Did in RMiS 2.4?

Anna: You Will Get a Warning As You Are Trying to Save That Information,
If You Click the Save Button, it Will Come up With a Window That Says
Something Is Not Adding up Right. That\'s Not the Exact Words, but I\'m
Not Sure Exactly What it Says. But Yeah, You Will Get the Warning, So
You Will Need to Go In and Change That and Fix It. Ok, We Can Save this
to a Master Formula by Clicking the Save To. And this Gets Us to Where
You Can Save it to the Formula. So All You Need to Do Is Name it The Way
You Want it Named in Your Formula List and Take a Look at It. It Looks
Good to Me, and You Save It. This Gets Copied to the Formula List, Which
We\'ll Be Showing You Later. Now, If Fees Are Collected Alt a Site,
It\'s Important to Collect The Fee Site in the BLM Fee Status Prompt, to
Be Able to Input Your Fee Data. Occasionally, You May Need to Move a
Site from One Rma to Another. Let Me Go Ahead and Show You How To Do
That. Let\'s Go Back to Our Sites Information Screen by Clicking The
Sites Button on the Left‑hand Side of the Screen. And We Need to Go into
the Rmas. And at the Recreation Management Areas, this Is Where We Can
Move Our Sites. If We Click on \"Move Sites,\" We Get Our Move Sites to
Another Rma Editor Page. At the Rma Prompt, You Have an Option of
Selecting One of Your Rmas. Here We\'ll Leave it as Eastern Riverside
County. But to Highlight it and Press Select Is How You Would Choose
Your Site or Choose Your Rma. At the Sites Prompt, this Is Where You Can
Select the Sites You Want to Move. We\'ll Just Go Ahead and Move These.
We Can Select One Site or We Can Select More than One Site. And to
Select More than One Site, You Press Your Control Key On Your Key Board
and Highlight And Click on the Other Sites You Want to Move. Once
You\'ve Selected Your Sites That You Want to Move on the Right‑hand Side
of the Screen, You Select Your Rma Designation. Since We\'re Already in
Eastern Riverside County, Lets Select Another Rma. We\'ll Highlight
Santa Row Is a Mountains and Then We Click on The Middle Arrow Key
Between the Rma and the Sites, and this Will Move Your Sites. As You Can
See, Those Sites Disappeared from this List. If We Click Back on Your
Rma and Select Santa Rosa\'s, You\'ll See That These Were Added to the
Santa Rosa Rma.

Harold: That\'s a Neat Feature.

Anna: Yeah, I like this a Lot. Once You Are Done Moving Those Sites and
You Want to Keep Them, You Can Click on Save. And it Will Take You Back
to Your Recreation Management Areas. Ok. Harold, the 3.0 Version Sure
Makes Moving Sites Easy.

Harold: it Also Makes Data Entry for What We Call Corridors A Lot less
Complicated than RMiS 2.4. So Much So, in Fact, That We\'re Only Going
to Demonstrate How You Will Enter or Edit Area Designation. Data Input
and Editing for Rivers, Trails, Is Very Similar To Area Designations and
the Underlying Logic Is Pretty Much The Same as it Was in RMiS 2.4.
Information on the Other Corridors Are Found in Your User\'s Guide,
Beginning on Page 20. Anna, Let\'s Start from Scratch And Enter a New
National Conservation Area. Let\'s Call it Y Is it an Nca.

Anna: That\'s an Interesting Name, Harold. Once I Show You How to Get
into The Area Designation Edit Screen, I\'ll Explain How to Edit An
Existing Designation and Then How to Add a New Nca Information. For the
New Designation, We\'ll Go over Adding a New Nca Segment. Remember, All
Corridors and Area Designations Need to at ‑‑ Have At Least One Segment.
This Is Something Your Data Quality Checklist Will Walk You Through. Now
We\'re Going to Demonstrate How to Get into Your Area Designation Page.
From the Office Information Screen, I\'m in the Rma Screens, So I Need
to Get Back to the Office Information Screen, and I Do That by Clicking
the Office Button. And from the Office Information Screen, on the
Left‑hand Side, I Click on the Area Designation Button.

Harold: Remember, this Is Your Home Page, So You Have to Return to it
Each Time to Get Into the Other Features.

Anna: and for the Area Designation Information Page, on The Left‑hand
Side, You\'ll See Your Logout Button, Your Office Button. You\'ll See
Your New Button Where You Can Add a New Area Designation. And Your Area
Segments, Where You Can Add Your Segment Information for That
Designation. In the Middle of the Screen, We Have Our Area Designation
Prompt. If You Go over to the down Arrow Key, this Is the List of All of
The Area Designations for Your Office. You Can Highlight One and Select
It. In this Case, Big Maria Mountain Wilderness Has Already Come Up. So
We Will Leave It. At the Name Prompt, We Have the Name of the
Designation. We Have Our I.d. Number. We Have Our Designation Type, And
Our Notes and Then Any Segments Related to That Designation. Ok, Now,
Let\'s Enter a New Nca. The Why Is it an Nca. To Add a New Area
Designation, We Go over to the Left‑hand Side Of the Screen and Click
\"New.\" This Takes Us to Our Area Designation Area Page Where We Can
Add a New Designation. Let Me Go Ahead and Put Some Information in it
Here for \"Why Is it an Nca.\" Let\'s See If I Can Spell That. Well,
We\'ll Assign it an I.d. Number and Then We\'re Going to Click on the
Designation Type. If We Click on the down Arrow Key, We\'ll Get the List
of All Of the Designations in RMiS. Here It\'s an Nca, National
Conservation Area, So I Click on National Conservation Area, and It
Asks, Does it Extend Be I Don\'t Know Your Office Bound Degree. It
Probably Does, So We\'ll Click on That. You Have an Option of Adding
Notes for this in Your Note Pad Section, and Then You Can Add a
Management Plan or Create a New One. , by Clicking on the New Button. In
this Case, We Don\'t Have One, So We\'re Going to Go Back to the
Left‑hand Side of the Screen and Save this Information. And as You Can
See, in the Middle of the Screen, We Have The Information for Why Is it
an Nca Recorded. Now, I Want to Add an Area Segment. Remember, Rivers,
Trails, Are Designated the Same, but with Specific Information for Each.
Let Me Just Show You How to Do The Area Segment Before I Get Into That.
Let\'s Click on Area Segment Button on the Left‑hand Side of Your
Screen. This Takes Us to Our Area Segment for Yizita. As a Default, We
Have New Area. This Gives You a Clear That You Need to Add a Seg Ment
for Your Nca. If You Click on the Hyperlink, We Can Add Our Segment. For
Yizita, We\'ll Just Have One Segment and We\'ll Just Name it Yiza. The
Segment Area Is One. The Management Acres Will Default to Point 1, but
Let\'s Go Ahead and Change That to Something Else. And at the Bottom of
the Screen We Have Laws That Are Available. If You Have a Law Related to
This Segment, You Can Highlight It and Move it by Using the Arrow Key to
the Right‑hand Side Where it Says \"Applicable Laws.\" You Can Highlight
More than One By Using Your Control Key on Your Key Board and Clicking
on The Other Laws. If There\'s a Law That\'s Not in This List That You
Need Added, Then Contact Your RMiS Administrator and They Can Put That
in for You.

or Your Local Congressman Who Has to Get the Law Passed. The Question on
Your Areas Back There, If There\'s ‑‑ You Put in National Conservation
Area. If the Thing That You Want to Put in Is Not in the List, What Do
You Do?

Anna: If It\'s Not in the List, Then You\'ll Want to Contact Also Your
RMiS Administrator to Add That to Your List. And What the Team Will Do
Is Take a Look at it and See If That\'s Something That Should Go Into
RMiS, and We Might Have Forgot Something. So If You Do See Something
like That, Let Us Know.

Harold: Us Forget?

Anna: Us Forget. We Can Do It. After We\'ve Made All of Our Changes or
Added this Segment, We Can Click on Save, and You\'ll See Your Segment
Information for Why Is it an Nca. On the Left‑hand Side, You Can Get
Back into Your Area Designation Page or You Can Link Your Sites to this
Area Designation. So Within Your Segment, You Might Have Sites That Fall
in It. If You Click on the Link Sites Button, it Takes You to The Sites
Link to this Area Segment. You Can Highlight a Site, You Can Select an
Rma, or Highlight More than One Site by Using Your Control Button, and
Clicking on It, and Then Moving it to Your Sites Linked to this Segment
by Using the Arrow Key in the Middle. You Can See That the Sites Have
Come up on the Right‑hand Side. And Once You\'ve Added Sites to That
Segment, Then You Can Go Over to the Left‑hand Side of The Screen, and
Click on Save. Ok, Harold, Our Fourth Quarter Was Byways. What Has
Happened to It?

Remember Our Earlier Discussion? Byways Information Is Found in The
Roads Components. It Is a Special Type of Road, Page 39 of Your User
Guide Has Information on Roads. Remember Now?

Anna: Oh, That\'s Right. We Haven\'t Been Tracking Information
Recreation Related To Road Use on Public Lands Even Though it Makes up
Such a Large Amount of Use. RMiS 3.0 Gives Us a Way to Do This Now. The
Roads Component Is Used for Tracking Information Related to Visitor Use
of Our Road Systems And Special Designations of Certain Roads. Roads May
Vary from Two‑track to Low‑speed Graph Very Well Roads To Paved Roads
Allowing Travel Into Our Scene Nick Back Country Areas. The Purpose of
this Component Is To Allow You to Work Closely With Your Fimms Lead to
Document The Kind of Visitor Use along The Records Recorded in Fimms.
You No Longer Need to Select the Type of Designation. This Is
Automatically Done for You When You Enter the Amount of Mileage into
Each Designation Category. For Now, Concentrate On Making Sure Your
Designated Road Information Is Correct. We Will Soon Add an Undesignated
Entry Line for You to Enter Information on Undesignated Roads. Entering,
Editing and Saving Data Is the Same for Roads as it Is for Area
Designations, Rivers And Trails, with a Few Extra Pieces of Road
Specific Information Included. And Let Me Do a Short Overview Of the
Road Information Screen. We\'re at the Area Segment. If We Click on
Office Information on the Left‑hand Side of Our Screen, We Get Back To
Our Office Information Page. And from Here, We\'ll Go down and Find Our
Roads Button and Click On It. And this Takes Us into Our Road
Information. On the Left‑hand Side of the Screen, We Have Our Logout
Button, Our Office Bought Ton. We Have Our New Button Similar To That of
Area Designations Where You Can Add a New Road or Byway, and We Have Our
Road Segment. In the Middle of the Screen, We Have Our Road List. If We
Click on this Arrow, We Will Get a List of All of the Roads We Have in
Our System for The Office. We Have a Name Prompt, Which Is Also a
Hyperlink Which Takes You Into the Editor, Where You Can Edit Your Road
Information. We Have Our I.d. Number, Our Miles Linked and Our Notepads
Where We Can Add Notes. If I Scroll down by Going over To the Right‑hand
Side of the Screen, I We Can See Our Designation Miles by Type. And
Here, since Bradshaw Trail Is a Back Country Byway We Have Marked 5
Miles in the Back Country Byway Section. Then at the Bottom We Have Our
Road Segments. To Get into Our Road Segments, If I Go over to the
Left‑hand Side of the Screen, We Can Click On Our Road Segment Button.
This Will Show the Information For the Road Segment Relate Today
Bradshaw Trail. Harold, this Is a Really Cool New Way to Track Our
Information.

Harold: Really Cool!

Anna: Really Cool!

Harold: You Have All of Fy 2000 to Work with Your Fimms Lead to Enter
Your Roads Data. It\'s Important to Work Directly With Fimms, the Person
in Your Office to Make Sure You Can Link The Information from the Two
Computer Systems. Now Now, Before Our Break, Let\'s Take a Look at the
Steps Needed To Enter Data on Special Recreation Permits or Srps into
RMiS. This Section Is Found in Your User\'s Guide on Page 50. Srp
Information Is Helpful When Tracking Yearly Visitor Use and Revenue
Generated by Permits in Your Area. It\'s Also a Good Way to Keep Your
Permittee Mailing List up To You. Back to You Captain Computer for An
Overview of Entering Srp Data.

Anna: Thanks for the Good News about Waiting till Fy 2000 To Enter All
of My Roads Data. Let\'s Discuss How to Edit and Enter Special
Recreation Permit Data. And to Do That, We Need to Get To the Srp
Information Screen. So If We Click on Office, We\'ll Get to Our Office
Information Page, and We Can Find Our Srp Button and Click on It. On the
Left‑hand Side of the Screen, You\'ll See Your Logout Button, Your
Office Button, Your New Button Where You Can Add a New Srp, Your Formula
Where You Can Add Visitor Use Formulas, Your Journal for Your Srp
Visitor Use Journal Information. You Have Your Save to Master Where You
Can Save Your Permittee Address to the Srp Address Book. You Have Your
Address Book, and Your Visitor Use. A New Feature Is the Srp Address
Book, the Save to Function. This Button Allows Your Permittee Address
Information to Be Entered into the RMiS 3.0 Database, So All BLM Offices
Have Access to It. This Can Be Used to See If Applicants Have Permits in
Other BLM Offices Around the Bureau. You Can Add Visitor Use for
Multiple Places in the System. Wherever You See the Visitor Use Button,
You Can Add It. And I Want to Go Ahead and Show You the Visitor Use
Button on The Srp Screen. You Can Add it Right Here on the Left‑hand
Side. Or, Let Me Go Back to the Office Information Screen, Click on
That, and Then I Need to Scroll Down Because the Visitor Use Button Is
Hiding from Us. And You Can See on the Left‑hand Side of the Screen, Our
Visitor Use Button.

Harold: Anna, If I Get into The Address List and Find a Person in There
That I Want to Put into a Particular Srp, Can I Automatically Make this
System Add it In?

Anna: Yeah, You Can. Let Me Just Show You How to Do That. By Going to
Your Srps, You Can Click on the Srp Button, and at Your Special
Recreation Permit Page, Whatever Permit You Want To Add That Address To,
You Want To Select it from this Pulldown List. So Let\'s Just Select One
Here. We\'ll Select the First One. And Then to Add the Address, You Go
into Your Srp I.d. Number, Your Hyperlink and Click on That. And Then We
Get the Information For That Permit, but to Add an Srp Address, You Can
Click on The Srp Address on the Left‑hand Side of Your Editor Screen,
and This Gives You the List of All Of the Permittees for ‑‑ That You Can
Choose from for That Srp. So it Has All of the Addresses, And Then You
Scan Highlight One, And Then You Can Click on the Apply Button on the
Left‑hand Side of the Screen, and That Will Apply it to That Special
Recreation Permit. And Then You\'ll Either Want to Save it If That\'s
What You Like, Or You Can Cancel It. I\'m Going to Cancel This, but
That\'s How You Would Do It, Harold. So this Gives You a Lot of Choices,
Harold. What Do You Think about That?

Harold: Choices, I Love Choices! And I Really Appreciate All of The Hard
Work Done to Make this System Quicker to Use. At this Point, We\'re
Going to Take a 15‑minute Break, but Before We Go, the RMiS Team Wanted
Me to Make Sure to Thank The Following for Their Support For the RMiS
Rehost Project, the Information Technology Board, The Field Committee
Quartet, the National Configuration Management Board, Nina Rose
Hatfield, Henri Bisson, Hord Tipton, Denise Meridith, Gary Bauer and the
BLM Training Center for Their Support and Hosting of the RMiS Team.
We\'ll Talk about Golden Pass Ports, Formulas Visitor Use and Reports.
Also, Rodger Submit, Recreation Group Mag Engineer Will Be Joining Us.
We\'ll Save Time for a Question And Answer Segment. So Send in Your
Faxes and Be Ready to Call. See You in 15 Minutes.

Harold: Welcome Back to the RMiS 3.0 Training. Before We Continue, I
Would like To Take a Couple of Moments to Let You Know about Other
Recreation Training Courses That Are Being Offered this Year. We
Included a Complete Brochure With All of the Recreation and Wilderness
Courses with Your User Guide for Use Following This Program. You Can
Also Find a Comprehensive Listing of Courses And Events on the NTC Web
Site At Www.ntc.blm.gov. Three Important Recreation Sessions Are Being
Offered this Year. Introduction to Recreation. It\'s a Three‑week
Course. The Intermediate Interpretation Course, and a New One this Year,
Advanced Interpretation. For Wilderness Training Courses, Information
Can Be Found on the Arthur Carhart Wilderness Training Center\'s Web
Site. You Can Reach this Site Through The NTC Home Page. Finally, NTC
Will Offer Two Sessions of the Visual Resource Management Course in
2000. One Is in Reno, Nevada, April 17th Through 21st and the Other Is
in Eugene, Oregon from September 18th Through 22nd, 2000. This Course Is
Aimed at Employees Managing Projects in Recreation, Realty and Minerals.
This Popular Course Fills up Quick So Check with Your Supervisor and
Manager and Then Send in Your Nomination Soon. NTC Has Just Issued Ib
No. 99‑22 With All of the Information for Making Nominations for Fy
2000. If You Have Any Additional Questions Please Contact Ann Hill at
602‑906‑5590. Let\'s Pick up Things Again by Continuing Our Discussion
on How To Enter Recreation Data into RMiS. RMiS Can Hell You Your Office
Forecast Golden Eagle, Golden Age and Golden Access Passports. The
Button in RMiS 3.0 Is Called Golden Permits. See Page 27 in Your Users
Guide To Follow the Steps into to ‑‑ It\'s Money You Can Use Right Away.
RMiS 3.0 Makes it Easier for You To Track and Report Contributions,
Donations, Materials, Supplies and Accomplishments from Your Challenge
Cost Share Projects, Volunteers and Other Types of Partnerships. Please
Turn to Page 30 in Your User Guide to Learn to Enter Your Partnership
and Agreement Information. We\'re Not Going to Cover the Specifics on
Adding and Editing The Information Because It\'s Done Pretty Much the
Same Way as All of the Other Components That We Talked about During the
Pre‑break Discussion. Our Final Focus for Today Is on How to Nervous
Store Use Formulas and Visits. This Has Always Been the Most Complicated
Part of RMiS and 3.0 Makes it Easier, and We Think You\'ll Be Pleasantly
Surprised. On Page 57, You\'ll Find Information on Visitor Use Formulas
Which Help You Track Activities at Your Recreation Sites. Anna, How
about Starting this Section by Describing the New Ways to Nervous Store
Use Formulas?

Anna: Sounds Good to Me Harold. You Now Have Two Ways to View or Edit
Recreation Use Formulas. You Can All up the Master List Of Formulas from
the Office Screen by Clicking on the Formula Button. Or You Can Access
the Visitor Use Formula While You\'re Working In a Specific Site or Srp.
In the Site, You Do this by Using Either the Site Editor Screen and in
the Srp, You Can Edit the Visitor Use Formula by Going to the Srp Edit
Screen. And I Just Want to Show You Where You Can Access Visitor Use
Formulas. From Your Office Information Screen, If I Scroll Down, We Go
Back to the Left‑hand Side of The Screen, and We See down Here Is Our
Formulas Button. Make Sure You Check All of Your Formulas. Some Do Not
Convert, So a Default Formulas Was Entered and You Need to Correct It.
Now, I Want to Demonstrate How To Use Your Visitor Use Formula From Your
Master List. So We Go Back to Our Screen, and We Click on the Formula
Button. And We\'ll Get Our Visitor Use Formula Master List. As You Can
See on the Left‑hand Side of the Screen, We Have Our Logout Button, We
Have Our Office Button, We Have a New Button Where We Can Make a New
Formula, and We Have Our Apply Button Where We Can Apply a Formula to
One or More Sites or Srps. In the Center of the Screen, We Have Our
Sites Where We Can Click on this and Get Our Site Master List, and over
on Our Srps, We Can Click on That and Get Our Srp Master List. I\'m
Going to Be Using Our Sites Master List, So Let Me Go Back And Click
Back on Sites. And We Get Our List. I Now Want to Show You How to Make a
New Site or New Formula. If We Go to the Left‑hand Side Of the Screen,
We Click on the \"New\" Button, and We Can Create A New Formula. And Let
Me Go Ahead and Do That. So We\'ll Go Ahead and Create One, We\'ll Name
It, Click in the Box and We Will Name it \"A New One.\" And Then We\'re
Going 0 Go down To Visitor Activity, and We Will Select an Activity by
Clicking On the down Arrow, and We\'ll Use Target Practicing, and We\'ll
Just Keep the Average Hours as One and the Percentage as a Hundred and
Let\'s Go Ahead and Insert Another Activity. So We Click on the Insert
Key, And it Gives Us Another Line Where We Can Record Another Activity.
If We Click on the down Arrow Key, We Can Select Another Activity and
We\'ll Just Do View Another, and We Can Change the Average Hours, and We
Can Change Our Percentages by Clicking in The Box and Just Going Ahead
and Changing Them. So Once We\'re Happy with That Formula, We\'ll Go
Back over to The Left‑hand Side of the Screen And Save It. And Now I
Want to Show You How You Can Apply Your Formulas to a Site. And Here We
Have, as You Can See, We Have Our New Formula, a New One. So Let\'s Go
to the Apply Button, Click on It, and this Is Where We Get to Choose a
Formula for One or More Sites. And to Do That, You Just Highlight the
Formula That You Want to Relate to a Site by Highlighting it and
Clicking on It, and Then Going over to Your Left‑hand Side of the
Screen, You Can Select the Site That You Want to Apply That Formula to
by Highlighting It. And Then You Go over to the Left‑hand Side of the
Your Screen and Click \"Apply.\" Let Me Just Scroll down Because
There\'s Something on this Screen.

Danger, Danger Will Robinson.

Harold: Remember the Warning On User Guide Page 61, Applying Or Saving a
New Formula to the Master List Will Delete the Current Formula for Each
Side You\'ve Selected. If You Want to Save the Current Site\'s Formula
for Only That Site and No Others, Make Sure You Save it to the Master
List Before Using this Screen, Then Apply the Formula from the Master
List. Remember to Check Your Default Formulas and Make Sure They Are
Correct since Some Did Not Convert Right. Remember, You Can Use the
Search Function to Find a Formula in The Master List That You Want. If
Data Isn\'t Entered Right, You May Get Another Warning Saying \"Invalid
Activity Percentage.\" The Sum of Your Activities must Be Greater than
or Equal to 100%. As You Go Through Your Visitor Use Formulas, You Can
Use the Data Quality Checklist as a Guide for What to Look For. Anna,
It\'s Time to Point out an Exiting Feature of RMiS for Entering Visitor
Use Data. Please Turn to Page 54 in Your User\'s Guide. Anna, Can You
Demonstrate the Buttons That Will Make Our Lives Easier.

You\'ll Want to Use it Throughout the Year to Keep Your Information up
to Date and to Avoid the Dreaded End of the Year Crunch. And I Want to
Do a Demo Where I Add Visitor Use. Let Me Go Back to the Office
Information Screen. Let Me Cancel out of this Screen And Go into Office.
And Then I\'m Going to Scroll Down to Go to the Visitor Use Button. I Go
over to the Left‑hand Side Of the Office Information Screen And Click on
the Visitor Use Button. This Takes Me to a Page Called \"Add Visits to
One or More Selected Sites or Srps.\" On the Left‑hand Side of the
Screen, We Have Our Logout Button, Our Office Button. We Have Our Add
Visits to the Selected Items Button and Our Cancel Button. So in this
Demonstration, I Want To Add Visitation to Some Sites. You Can Also Do
it to Your Srp, If You Choose To, by Clicking The down Arrow Key and
Highlighting Your Special Recreation Permit Title. Since We\'re Going to
Use Sites, We\'ll Just Highlight it and Select It. And Then We Have an
Option at Our Rma Prompt to Use All of Your Rmas or to Select One Rma.
In this Case, We\'ll Just Keep The All Rmas Up. At the Sites, We Can
Choose as Many Sites as We Want to to Add Visitation To. So If I
Highlight Some Sites and Then I Use My Control Key on My Key Board and
Click on Some Other Sites,, So I\'ve Selected Five Sites Here, and Now I
Want To Add My Visitation to Them. So If I Go over to the Left‑hand Side
of the Screen, to the Add Visits Button, and Click on That, it Takes Me
into the \"Add Visitor Use To\" Page. We See a Recalculate Button, an
Advance Mode Button, the Undo Button, Our Cancel Button and The Save
Button. As You Can See, in the Middle of The Screen, Those Sites I Had
Highlighted and Selected Now Appear on this Screen. We Have Our Art
Smith Trailhead, Big Morongo Canyon, Corn Spring Campground and Desert
Lily Preserve. In the Middle of the Screen Is Where You Enter the Start
and End Did it for That Journal Visitation Record. Here, We Just Leave
it for the Year, and Then I Can Add as Many Visits as a Want on the
Right‑hand Side. Let Me Just Go down the Column And Add Visitation to
All of These Sites.

Harold: this Is a Neat Feature Because You Don\'t Have To Bounce All
over like You Did In RMiS 2.4 to Enter. You Can Enter a Whole Bunch of
These. Let Me Give You a Word of Caution. Make Sure That You\'ve
Corrected Those Defaults in Here Because If You Don\'t, You\'re Going to
Run into Problems. You\'ll Call These up and it Won\'t ‑‑ the System ‑‑
it Won\'t Tell You Which One Is Not Right, So Any Time You Do this
Multiple Stuff, Make Sure You Go Through The Data Quality Checklist to
Make Sure That Everything Is Correct Before You Get into Some Of this
Stuff.

Hopefully Our Formulas Are Correct So We Can Actually Save These. Let\'s
Go Ahead and Save Them. Otherwise, We Will Get That Warning Message. And
it Seemed to Be Ok, So at That Point, We Have Added Visits To It. Let Me
Go Back into the \"Add Visits\" Screen by Clicking on The \"Add
Visits.\" Oops, I Need to Select One First. Let Me Select One of These
and Add Visits to It. You Can See on the Left‑hand Side of the Add Visit
Tore to Page You Have an Advance Mode. If You Want to Get More Advanced
On Some of This, You Can Click On this Advanced Mode and it Gives You
the Option of Adding Your Visits and Changing Your Formulas for That
Site. I Wanted to Point That Out. If You Have Any Questions on Using
This, You Can Call One of Your Team Members or Call Us Today or
Tomorrow, and We\'ll Help You. Yeah?

Harold: a Little Piece of Housekeeping, Momentarily. We\'ve Received a
Fax from the State of Colorado, Which Has Five Questions on It. Some of
the Questions Are Not Legible. We\'re Not Sure What They Are. Would
Whoever Faxed the ‑‑ from Colorado, There\'s No Name. I\'m Sorry,
There\'s No Name on It, but If You Could Refax the Five Questions of
Information From Colorado, Whoever it Did It, Thank You Very Much.

Anna: Ok, We Hope You Find The Editing, Entering and Saving Visit Data
Much Easier. Harold, What Do You Think of All Of That Extra Time You\'re
Going To Save?

Harold: If You Think That\'s Going to Save You Time, Wait Until We Show
You the New Standard Report Options. Not Only Is the New Standard Report
Function Easier, but Since the System Is on the Intranet, You Can Run
Reports on Other Offices\' Data and Compare Those to Your Program. These
Procedures Are Outlined in Your User\'s Guide Beginning on Page 63.
Anna, Can You Demonstrate That Procedure for Us?

Anna: I\'d Be Glad To. This Is Going to Be My Favorite New Feature. You
Have Two Reporting Options, The Standard Reports and the Custom Reports.
Reports Are Currently under Construction, but the Critical Standard
Reports Are Ready for Your Use. Custom Reports Will Be Completed In the
First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2000. The Other Standard Reports Will Be
Added in the Future. We Can Walk Through the Standard Report Function
Now and the Report Product Itself Will Be Ready Itself in a Few Weeks.
You Will Be Able to Download, Save and Print These Reports. Now, I\'d
like to Demonstrate the Standard Report Function. Let Me Cancel out of
Here and Get Back to the Office Information Page. Here I Am at the
Office Information Page, and I Need to Go over to the Right‑hand Side Of
the Screen and Scroll Down. And Go Back to the Left‑hand Side, and We
Find Our Standard Report Button and Our Custom Report Button. If We
Click on Our Standard Report Button, We Get into the Standard Reports
Page. And at the Left‑hand Side of the Screen, You\'ll See Your Logout,
Your Office, and Your Run Report, Where You Can Run Your Selected
Report. In the Middle of the Screen Is Where Your List of Reports Are
Located. If I Go over to the Left or to The Right and Click on the down
Arrow Key, I Get the List of All Of the Reports That Are Currently in
the System. And I Can Highlight One of Them And Then I Have the Option
of Querying. You Can Query on Your Fiscal Year Range and on in this Case
It\'s Set from 1999 to 1999, You Can Query on Your State. If You Click
on the down Arrow Key, You Get All of the States Listed, and You Also
Can Choose Your Office. In this Case, We Have All Chosen. And Then Once
You\'ve Made All of Your Query\'s, You Click Your Run Report Button.
Retrying Your Data and Others Data Is Just as Important as Entering Your
Own Data. You Can Use this Information to Brief Management, Prepare
Budget Documents, Complete Nepa Analysis, Support Technical Review
Teams, Provide Public Information, Respond to Gao or Gi Audits or
Congressionals, Plan Office Calendars and Use Authorization Calendars.
As We Work on the New Standard Reports and the Custom Report Writer, We
Would like to Hear From You on Any of These Reports And the New System.
Please See Appendix E on User Guide Page 73 and Send Us Your Ideas.
Well, Harold, I Think It\'s Quick And It\'s Easy, and I\'m Going to Like
Using this Program.

Harold: I Agree with You. Improvements Made to the System Have Made it
More Friendly and Easier for Every Day Recreation Folks like Us to
Input. I\'d like to Mention to Our Viewers That We Will Be Having Our
Question‑and‑answer Segment In a Few Minutes, So Please Start Placing
Your Calls, but First, Joining Us from the Headquarters Office in
Washington D.c. Is Our Sponsor, Rodger Submit. Welcome, Rodger.

Thank You, I\'m Happy to Be Part of the Downcast.

Harold: Rodger, Would You Give Us Some of Your Thoughts on The RMiS
System?

Rodger: Yes, Before I Respond, I Want to Say Thanks to The RMiS Team
Members Who Have Worked Long and Diligently since 1991 to Bring Our
Database to Where it Is Today. RMiS Retains the Logic of the Original
System Which Is Sound, But as You\'ve Seen Here Today, We Have Created a
New System That Is Much More User Friendly And Easily Accessible. What
Will Make this RMiS Database a Valuable Product for The Bureau, Our
Constituencies And for You in the Field Is for You to Take the Time to
Enter The Data and That the Data Be Reliable and Valid. While
Consistently Reliable Data ‑‑ or with Consistently Reliable Data, We Can
Provide Our Constituents, Be They the Local Press, Congressional
Representatives or Commodity or Environmental Groups, with Information
on Our Regular Recreation Activities on the Ground. Let Me Give You an
Example of What We Hope to Avoid in the Future When Querying this New
System. We Were Recently Ask to Provide An Environmental Group with Data
On Our Off‑highway Vehicle Designation Bureauwide. When We Pulled the
Data from RMiS 2.4 and Compared it with The Data Field Offices Provided
To the Same Environmental Group, We Found That They Did Not Match. In
Fact, the Data Were Very Different. We Were Thus Forced to Request
Additional Information from Field Offices to Arrive at the Correct
Figures. If We Had Accurate up to Date RMiS Data, We Could Have Saved
Your Time and Ours by Using RMiS To Provide the Data. We Look Forward to
the Data That Will Come from RMiS 3.0 this October. I Want to Thank
Everyone Involved for All of the Good Work That They\'ve Contributed to
The Project. It Truly Makes Our Job in Washington of Telling the
Bureau\'s Story More Effective When We Request Support and Funding to
Help You Get Your Jobs Done on the Ground. Please Remember That RMiS
Will Be the Official Source of Recreation Data for the Bureau. It
Behooves All of Us to Ensure That it Is Accurate.

Harold: Thanks, Rodger.

Rodger: You\'re Welcome.

Harold: We\'ve Reserved the Rest of Our Time to Hear from You. If You
Have a Question or Comment from Us, Get on the Phone or Send Us a Fax
Right Away. Remember Those Phone Numbers Are In Your User Guide. Rodger
Has Agreed to Stay with Us for the Rest of the Program To Help Answer
Your Questions. And I\'ve Already Gotten Some Faxes, So Let\'s Get Right
on It. I Have One Here from Scott Center, I\'m Not Sure Where Scott Is
from but His Question Is. How Do You Add Newly Designated It Special
Recreation Management Areas after Completing Your Resource Management
Plans. This Was Difficult to Do under RMiS 2.4. If this Isn\'t a Feature
of the Area Designation, it Should Be.

Harold: Actually, You Can Add It, Scott, but the Way You Have To Add it
Is Contact the State Office and They Have to Add it Or the System
Administrator Has To Add It. We Don\'t Have it ‑‑ in Field Offices, We
Don\'t Have the Power To Add Those Kinds of Things. It\'s Not Going to
Be as Difficult. You Call the State Office or Call the System
Administrator Here in Arizona and (Snaps Fingers) It\'s Taken Care Of.
Thank You Scott for Your Fax.

Harold: I Think We Have a Phone Call.

Harold: We Do Have a Phone Call. Let\'s See Who Is There. Hi! Hello?

Hello.

Harold: Who Is Is This?

this Is Suzanne in Salt Lake.

Harold: How Are You?

I\'m Fine. This Question Is for Rodger. I\'m Wondering How You Use RMiS
In the Washington Office.

Rodger: Thanks for the Question. We Rely on the RMiS Data as the Primary
Source of Information on Everything We Do on the Rec Program in the Way
of Visitation, Fee Collections and We Provide That Information to
Congress Directly, to Our Constituents and to Others Who Are Interested
in What We\'re Doing. It\'s a Very Important Source for Us to Come up
with Information, And We Need it to Be Reliable And Consistent, Because
from Year to Year, People Are Tracking What We\'re Doing.

Thank You.

Harold: Thanks Suzanne. Let\'s Go to Another Fax. This One Is for Anna,
and It\'s For Steve Vondaro, Some of You Folks Write like Pharmacists or
Doctors. I Have Trouble Reading It. An Narcotics the Question Is, How Do
We Find Our Other Visitor Use Formulas We Have Already Entered. For
Example, for Many of Myositis, I Have Separate Formulas for Summer,
Fall, Winter and Spring. Please Show Us How to Find This.

Anna: Ok, Your Formulas Are Currently Located Within the Site Record
Information. But They Are Also ‑‑ There Should Be in Your Master List
The Formulas, So Let Me Just Go Down to the Formula Screen. And When You
Are in Your Visitor Use Formula Master List, You Will Have the Name of
Your Spring, Fall, Winter, Whatever Formula it Is, in There. And You Can
Apply Those to the Sites by Just Using Your Apply Button and Selecting
the Formula Name. If this Was Spring for the Art Smith Trailhead, Then
You Would Highlight It, Then You Could Go Over Here and Relate it to
Your Art Smith Trailhead. You Could Do That for a Number Of These
Formulas and Relate it All to One Site. So That\'s How You Would Do It,
And They Should Be in Your System. Hopefully They Converted Ok.

Harold: Anna, Have We Added Any New Activities in the Activity List?

Anna: We Haven\'t Added Any New Activities in the Activity List, Before
You If There Are Some That People Want Added, Let Us Know.

Harold: We Have a Popular Activity in the Southwest Desert Is Ufo
Watching, We Probably Ought to Get That in There, There Is a Lot of
People Running Around in the Sun Without Hats On Because It\'s a Popular
Activity. I Have a Phone Call Now from Anonymous in Glen Allen Field
Office, and We\'re Sorry, We Lost This Call at First, So Bear with Us.
Hello?

Hi. Is this Glen Allen?

Sure Is.

Harold: Do You Have a Question for Us?

We Had a Couple. Is it Possible for More than One User in a Field Office
to Be Simultaneously Entering Information If They Are Logged Onto the
Application?

Harold: Can More than One Person Be Logged into the Program in the
Intranet for One Particular Office, Right?

Right.

Anna: the Answer to That Question Is Yes. You Can Have a Number of
People Logged into the Computer at One Time. But You Need to Be Really
Careful. If Someone Is Making an Edit on Your System, You Don\'t Want to
Be Making an Edit, Because There Might Be Some Confusion There When You
Are Trying to Save That Data. You Want to Be Real Careful, However, If
You Do Want to Login As a User and You Want Help from The State Office
or Another Office to Input Data, They Can Login as a Guest and You Can
Talk Back and Forth of Your Data And it Will Be in Front of Both Of You.

Harold: Thank You.

Anna: I Hope That Answers It.

Harold: Who Is in Glen Allen. K.j., Keith Emmens and Brad Seipert.

Thanks for Your Question, K.j.

Anna: I Think We Had Another One.

Harold: Hello, K.j.? Are You Still There? I Understand You Had Another
Question?

Yeah, I Didn\'t Want to Take Up Too Much Time If Other People Want to
Ask Questions but ‑‑

Harold: No Problem.

We Were Going to Ask If There Was a New Activity for Comfort Stop. Anna
Addressed That. All We Need to Do Is Let You Guys Know, but the Last
Question Prompted Another One. We Used the Break to Go and Check Our
Formulas and a Lot of Our Sites Had Formulas That We Didn\'t
Specifically Name, and They Didn\'t Show up in the Master List, So Does
That Mean We\'ve Probably Lost Them or Do We Have to Go into Each Site
Separately to See If They Are Somehow Embedded in There and Find Them
That Way?

Anna: They Should Be Related To That Site Record. If You Go into Your
Site Record And Pull up That Formula, Your Formula Should Be There. It
Should Have Converted Correctly, but it Won\'t Have Been Saved to Your
Master List If You Didn\'t Save it Previously, until You Actually Go in
and Save it to the Master. So All You Need to Do Is Go into That Site,
Go into That Formula And Save‑on That Save Master to The Master Lis
Button and That\'s Where it Copies Your Site Formula to That Master
List. That\'s How You Go about Doing

Harold: Great, Anything Else K.j.?

No, Great. Thanks for Clarifying Those Things.

Harold: Thanks for Calling. Let\'s Go to Another Fax. This One Is from
Lynn Clements In the Winnemucca Field Office. Lynn Has a Couple of
Questions. The First One We Already Answered. It\'s Can More than One
Person Work on the Program in the Same ‑‑ from the Same Office Data at
The Same Time. And Sure. Ok, the Second Question Is, You Showed Season
of Use Using Calendar Time. RMiS 2.4 Would Only Let Us Do it In Fiscal
Time. Has this Changed?

Anna: Visitor Use Data Can Be Entered from Any Date That You Want it To,
as Long as It\'s Within That Fiscal Year, So, Yeah, We Have it as Your
Default, as Showing the Calendar Year, but it Should Be for the Fiscal
Year, and That\'s How We Record Our Data. So for Fiscal Year 99, That\'s
How We Want to Record It.

Harold: All Right. Thank You Very Much, Lynn. Ok, We Have Another
Question Here from Steve, and I Don\'t Know Where Steve Is from ‑‑ Steve
‑‑ Steve in Barstow. Hi, Steve! I Didn\'t Look at the Heading on It. Has
the Current 1999 RMiS Input Automatically Converted from 2.4 To the New
3.0 Program or Do I Have to Reenter My \'99 Data. I Can Answer That.
When We Closed down the System About Four Months Ago, it Locked In the
\'99 Data That Was Entered. That Was Checked and Converted And All the
Data That You Had in There, Is in the New System Already. You Will Have
to Go Back and Go Through the Data Quality Checklist and Make Sure That
Everything Is Cleaned Up, Because I Doubt If Everybody Went in and Did
the Cleanup They Were Supposed to Do. In Fact, I\'m Sure You Didn\'t
Clean Yours Up, Steve, but It\'s In There. So We Don\'t Have to Worry
about That. We Have a Phone Call. We Have a Phone Call from Jack
Rainsdale in the Phoenix Field Office. Hi, Jack! We\'re Waiting for
Jack. Jack?

Yes.

Harold: Hi, Jack. Do You Have a Question for Us?

How Do We Track Visitor Use Without Double Counting Visitors On a Trail
That Crosses Two Field Offices?

Harold: Uh‑huh! With Extreme Difficulty and Caution.

Anna: That Question Is Pretty Technical in Nature and to Go Into the
Explanation for That, We\'re Going to Have to Get Very Detailed, So What
We\'re Going to Do with You, Jack, and for Anyone Else That Wants the
Answer to That Question, We Can Type it out and E‑mail it to You, or We
Can Fax it to You This Afternoon. So, That\'s How We\'ll Handle That
One. Sorry about That, Jack.

Well, We Certainly Appreciate It.

Anna: Ok.

Harold: That Was One of the Best One‑foot Shuffles I\'ve Seen Anybody Do
in a Long Time, Anna. That Was Really Good! We\'ve Got Another One.
We\'ve Got Another One like That, By the Way, While I\'m Hear. It
Happens to Be from Somebody On the RMiS Team, and it Was One That We\'re
Also Going to Have to Do a Little Shuffle On, Right?

Anna: I Can Do It.

Harold: Anna Wants to Do it Now. It\'s from David from Montana. We Could
Have Used You a Couple Of Times. The Question Is, Can You Demonstrate
How to Enter Rup Information? And So Anna Is Going to Do That.

Anna: I\'m Going to Demonstrate That on the Computer, So at Your Office
Information Screen, Let Me Click On That, We\'ll Go down into Your Rmas,
So Click on the Rma Button, and Then We Want to Go Into Our Sites
Information Page. So We\'ll Click on the Sites, and The First Site That
Got Pulled Up Was the Big Morongo Canyon. As You Can See on the
Left‑hand Side of the Screen, down Towards The Middle, We Have the Rup
Button. That\'s Where You Enter Your Data. If You Click on That, You\'ll
Get Your Recreation Use Permits. That\'s Where You Can Add the
Information for That. So Let Me Go Back to the Office Information Page,
and I Hope That Answered, Dave, Your Question.

Harold: Ok. I\'m Sure it Did. I\'ve Got Another Fax and this One Is from
Carol Bauer in Colorado. This May Be the One That We Were Waiting to
Come Back To. Some of Them Have Already Been Answered, I Believe. The
First One Is, Can We Query All BLM Offices to See If a Particular
Outfitter Has a Permit Elsewhere. The Answer to That Is Yes, You Can.
You May Do That for Any Office By Going in as a Guest. You Have to Login
as a Guest. And You Can Check Everybody\'s Address Book and See If
There\'s Someone in There. You Won\'t Be Able to ‑‑ Remember, You Can
Only Change Your Own Data, You Can\'t Do it To Anybody Else. That Can Be
Done. The Second Question Is, How Do We Export RMiS Data for Use
Elsewhere. Well, There\'s ‑‑ I\'m Not Sure Exactly What You Mean by
That, Carol, but You Don\'t Have to Export it Any Where. It\'s on the
Intranet. If You Are Saying You Wanted to ‑‑ You Somebody Wants the
Information Outside BLM, They Wouldn\'t Have Access to Our Intranet, You
Would Probably Have to Print the Data out and Give it to Them or Print a
Report, but Everybody in BLM Can Access the Data, and That\'s One Of the
Interesting Features That Rodger and I Were Talking about Yesterday,
That You Can at Any Time During the Year, Washington Office People or
Anybody Else Can Look in There and See What The Current Situation Is.
You Don\'t Have to Wait till the End of the Fiscal Year. You Can Access
the Data at Any Time on the Intranet. So Everybody Can Also Be Checked
To See If You Are Entering Your Data on a Regular Basis Rather Than Be
Checked on at the End of The Year. So Get it In. Big Brother Will Be
Watching, Right Rodger?

Rodger: Absolutely.

Anna: I Have a Question for Rodger. I Wonder What He Thought Some of The
Enhancements for RMiS from The Washington Office Might Be.

Rodger: I\'m Very Excited About the Enhancements. I Think One of the
Major Enhancements That We Are Looking Toward Is Having the Form
Generated On‑screen for People To Use on the Computer and Then As They
Enter the Data, the Data Will Go into the Database and It\'ll Be Updated
Immediately From the Form, and Then They Can Print the Form out and Not
Have To Do it Long Hand and Enter the Data Separately. I Think That\'s a
Neat Enhancement. We\'re Also Looking to Improve The Reports Function,
and We Are Looking at Entering Some Gao Spatial Data So That Sites Can
Be Located in the Gis Mechanism That We Have. I Think That\'s Some of
the Exciting Things That We Have Coming Up. We Hope in Future Years
Those Will Be Entered into Future Versions of RMiS.

Anna: I\'m Looking Forward to Seeing the Future of RMiS. That Will Be
Nice. It\'s Already Way Ahead of Where It Is So It\'s Great.

Rodger: I\'m Excited about It.

Harold: We\'ve Got Another Call Coming from in from Dorothy In Glennwood
Springs, Colorado. Dorothy, Are You There?

Yes, I\'m Here.

Harold: Hi, What Was Your Question?

I Got Confused When Anna Was Going over the Address Book Option in the
Srp Editor. I Was Wondering If You Would Go Over That Again. What I
Thought You Were Saying Is You Could Have More than One Address for an
Srp Permit Holder And So I Just Got Kind of Confused about That.

Anna: You Can Only Have One Address for the Srp. What I Was Saying Is
That If You Wanted to Select an Address from Your Address List, You
Could Pull That in to That Srp and Apply it to It. But, Yeah, Some of
That Information Is in Your User Guide. So You Might Want to Refer to
That. And If You Have Questions, You Know, Other than That, for Srps
Just Call Us. I Don\'t Know If I Clarified That For You, But\...

Are You Saying There Is an Address Book for People Other Than Srp
Permittees?

Anna: Let Me Show You on the Office Information Screen. On the Left‑hand
Side, You Have Your Address Book. If I Click onto the Srp Address Book,
You Only Have Addresses For Srps. You Don\'t Have it for Anything Else.
This Is a Big List of Your Permittee and Their Address and Phone Number
Information.

Thanks for Your Help. I Appreciate It.

Harold: No More Questions?

No, That\'s All.

Harold: That Takes Care of It. Ok, I\'ve Got More Faxes That Have Come
In. The First One Is from Laura Graves in Salem, Oregon. She\'s Got Two
Questions. The First One I\'ll Answer Because It\'s Easy, and the Second
One I\'ll Give to Anna, Because It\'s Harder. Will We Be Able to Print
Reports On Previous Fiscal Years I.e., Fy 97 and \'98. No, You Can\'t
Print Yet in RMiS 3.0 Because That Date Fa Has Not Been Converted into
the New System. If You Remember, During the Earlier in the Broadcast, I
Mentioned That That Data Was Supposed to Go into RMiS 3.0, The
Historical Data Would Go Into That Sometime Around Fy2001. After That,
You Would Be Able to Print it in the New System, but Right Now All of
That Information Is Just in Your Pc At Your Office. You\'ve Got It. So
the Only Way You Can Do a Report Is Through the Old 2.4 System. And the
Second Question Is More Technical in Nature, and I\'m Just the
Good‑looking One up Here. Do We Still Have to Link Visitor Activities
Use Formulas for Special Areas I.e., Trails or Rivers by Rma?

Anna: We\'re Trying to Work Out the Corridor Section. It\'s Been a
Little Confusing in The Past. But When You Are in a Frail or a Road or a
River, Whatever Corridor You Might Be In, That\'s Where You Link Your
Sites, and The Information in Those Sites Should Be Related, or Be
Brought Over for the Corridors, but ‑‑ I\'m Not Sure. We Might Need to
Get Some Help On the Answer to That One. But I\'ll Get Back to You on
That. Who Is That One From? Laura Graves from Salem, Oregon? We Can
E‑mail You the Information this Afternoon.

Anna: Assuming Somebody Is Writing down All of These Things That We Are
E‑mailing People.

Harold: I Have a Fax That Has A Couple of Questions on it or Actually,
It\'s Got One Question Related. How Do You Add a Byway.

Rodger: Let Me Start Off. Anna Can Do the Technical Part On the Computer
in the Program. The First Thing You Have to Remember, in Order to Enter
a by Way into the System it Has to Be Designated. You Have to Go Through
the Process for the Designation and Actually Entering, Anna Can Talk
About the Technical Part of That.

Anna: All of Our Byway Information Has Gone into the Database. If You Go
into the Office Information Screen, Let Me Show You Where That Is, You
Click on The Roads Button, and this Is Where You Can Add Your Byway or
New Byway to It. All You Need to Do on the Left‑hand Side of Your Road
Information Screen Is Click on The \"New\" Button, and That Takes You
into Where You Can Add a New Road or Byway. And You Would Fill in All of
This Information and Then You Would Save It. And Then You Would Go down
to Your Road Segment and Fill in The Information for Your Road Segments.
So That\'s How You Would Put in a New Byway or a Road for That Matter.

Harold: Ok, Before I Go to The next Fax, I\'ve Got a Telephone Call from
Dan in Eagle Lake, California. Are You There?

this Is Stan. Oh, Stan Bails?

How Are You Going

They Put \"Dan\" up on the Board.

That\'s Fine. An Narcotics We\'ve Talked about This One Before, I Don\'t
Know If You\'ve Got Any New Answers for It Now, We\'ve Got White Bean
Counters on Our Trial and Some Of Our Roads, Electric Loop Counters. We
Record Our Visitor Use as a Total Use and Then When We Go to Enter Our
Srp Data That Occurs In Those Sites, When RMiS Calculates, We Get a
Double Count. In Order to Be Accurate, We Have To Deduct That Srp Data
out of The Rma Data. Is the New ‑‑ Does the New System Have Anything
That Can Adjust for That?

Anna: All of the Visitor Use Is in One Database Now ‑‑ I Was Hearing an
Echo! ‑‑ All of the Visitor Use Is in One Database Now. All of Our Srp
Data and Sites Data Is Going to Be into That One Visitor Use Database.
So the Concept of Recording That Is Still the Same as in 2.4, but We Try
to Make it Easier for You By Having it All in One Location In That
Visitor Use Area.

Harold: Great! Ok.

Anna: Stan Is Still on the Line.

Harold: Bye, Stan! I\'m Going to Go to Another Fax ‑‑ Actually, I\'ve
Got Somebody On the Telephone. Instead of Going to the Fax, I\'m Going
to Drive the Producer Crazy ‑‑ Oh, the Phone Is Not Ready. I\'ll Take
the Fax. I\'ve Been Told. This One Is from Tom Monty and Others in
Pineville Oregon. Tom Asks, How Would You Suggest We Determine Use Data
for Sites And Roads If Funding Limits Our Ability to Monitor Such as
Field Staff Traffic Counters, Permit Systems, et Cetera.

Harold: That\'s a Good One, Rodger. Do You Want to Take That?

Rodger: I Think That\'s a Very Difficult One to Answer.

Harold: That\'s Why I Gave it To You.

Rodger: Let Me See the Question Again, Please. How Would You Suggest We
Determine Use Data for Sites and Roads. Well, I Think There\'s Some
Mechanisms You Can Use. As We Heard from Northern California, They Use
Loop Counters and Trail Counters. You Can Use That. Monitoring Is
Difficult. You ‑‑ You\'re Just Going to Have To Try to Get People out
There On a Regular Bases and Do Some Estimation. We Are Currently
Working with The Forest Service to Help Us With Some of the Estimation
Techniques That You Can Use Where You Do Periodic Counts and Use That to
Estimate Your Use Over a Longer Period of Time. So There Are Some
Mechanism We Are Working on at the National Level to Help You with That,
but It Is a Difficult Thing to Try To Do Visitation Counts and
Monitoring When You Don\'t Have Folks on the Ground, and as I Mentioned
Earlier, Putting Good Data in this System and Giving Us Good Information
Helps Us to Provide Good Information to the Congress, Which in the
Long‑term Is Going to Make Sure That We Get Good Stuff Back from
Congress.

Harold: Tom Has a Second Question on His Fax. Can I See What That Is?

Rodger: No Problem.

Harold: That Was a Good Shuffle by the Way. You Guys Are Good! How/who
Transfers \'98 RMiS Information to Create the \'The 9 Base? There
Wasn\'t Really Any \'98 Information ‑‑ Actually, Your \'98 Information,
When You Started up the 1999 Program at The New Fiscal Year, Had the
Base Information in It, like You Would Always Get When You Go From One
Fiscal Year to Another And the Information Is in There. When You Started
Your \'99 Program, That Information Was Automatically Transferred. We
Were Asked to Send Our RMiS 2.4 Data in May or June, I Forget, It\'s All
Kind of Running Together, but to Send it In, and Then the Transfer Was
Made into The New Program Here by the System Administrator and a
Programmer Who Is out There Somewhere, Who Is, You Know, Who Refined the
Program and We\'ve Been Working out Bugs for Four Months and Actually,
Getting Things Straightened Out. So the System Itself Transferred The
\'98 Base Data into \'99. It Wasn\'t Anything We Had to Create.

Anna: We Have a Phone Call.

Harold: Pardon Me?

Anna: Phone Call.

Line 1, We Have Terry from The Arizona State Office. Are You There?

I Sure Am.

Harold: What\'s Your Question?

this Is for Rodger. I\'m Wondering If the Washington Office Is Envisions
Required Data Calls from the State and Field Office More than Once a
Year Now, Do We Have the Capabilities?

Rodger: Thanks, Terry, It\'s Good to Talk to You. The RMiS Information,
as We Talked about During the Presentation Today, We Were Hoping That
You Will Enter the Information in as You Go Throughout the Year. And
There Won\'t Be a Need to Do More than One Call for That Information.
It\'ll Be There Regularly for Everybody to Refer to and Use to Help Us
with Our Information Calls. So We Don\'t Envision Having More Than One
Data Call.

Great, Thank You.

Harold: Anymore Questions?

No, That Will Do It.

Harold: I\'ve Got a Phone Call From Evelyn in Elko, Nevada. What\'s Your
Question?

I Had a Question about Adding A New Byway. We Don\'t Have Any Byways at
All, So If You Click on the Roads Button, it Brings up an Error Message.

Yeah, We Found That Bug Yesterday, and Our Programmer Is Working ‑‑ Our
Developer Is Working to Get That Out. He Said That for Any of the
Corridors, If You Don\'t Currently Have Any Data in for Those Corridors,
Then ‑‑ I Just Lost My Train of Thought. I Just Heard That It\'s Been
Fixed, So You Can Put it in as An Undesignated Road, If You Want To.

I Can\'t Put Anything in it Right Now. It Brings up the Error Message.

Anna: since He Made the Change, He Made it Yesterday Evening, He Hasn\'t
Taken the New Information Downtown to Load it On the Server. That Won\'t
Mess up Your Data That You Are Trying to Change Now, but He Needs to Do
That This Afternoon, So.

So We Can Expect That Tomorrow Sometime?

Yeah, If You Don\'t, Give Us a Call Here. We\'re Going to Be Here in the
Morning.

Harold: Talk about Service, Here. Thanks Allot Evelyn. For Those That
Aren\'t Aware How The Whole Thing Is Working, the Server for RMiS 3.0 Is
Located In the Arizona Office. The System Administrator Is Here, it
Doesn\'t Have Anything To Do with the State Office or Any of the ‑‑
It\'s Operated out Of the Phoenix Office. I\'ve Still Got a Couple of
Faxes Left. This Is from Dennis Butcher in The Sd Field Office. Somebody
Help Me. I\'m Blank. Can Information Be Served ‑‑ Can The Information Be
Saved to Word Perfect for Use by External Customers?

Anna: You\'ll Be Able to Save Your Reports into the Pdf Files And Then
You Can Be Able to Transfer Those into Word Perfect, or You Can Also
Make Them Ascii Files and Then Convert Them. So There Are Ways to Do It.
We Haven\'t Explained That in the User Guide. If You Need Help Walking
Through That, Then Give Us a Call, and We\'ll Walk You Through That. I
Personally Don\'t Know How to Do It, So I\'d Have to Get Chris Or
Somebody to Help Us out There.

Harold: the Second Question On Here Is Can Reports Be E‑mailed to the
Public?

Anna: Can Reports Be E‑mailed? After You\'ve Saved Them into a File,
Then You Can E‑mail Them To Other People, If You Choose To.

Harold: Ok, and I Still Have One Last Fax Here from Jim Mcbrair in
Colorado. He Has Two Questions. The First One Is What Data Will RMiS 3.0
Retain from Year to Year, I.e., Visitor Use Data and Formulas?

Anna: from Year to Year, It\'s Going to Retain All of Your Information.
I Think I\'m Getting That Right. All of Your Information Will Be In
There and It\'ll Be Stored There. You Can Refer to it by Taking a Look
at the ‑‑ by Querying on it And Pulling up That Information.

Harold: It\'ll Transfer Essentially the Information That The Old System
Did, It\'ll Bring Up the Things That Are Kind of Locked in for You, and
You Would Have to Change Them; Right?

Anna: Yeah, and Then You\'ll Be Able to Do Historical Trends Report Data
Which Was Something That We Got Asked a Lot to Do From the Field Office.
They Want to See Their Trends, So It\' Be a Nice Feature.

Harold: and Jim Has a Second Question. What Is the Data Program for 3.0.
I Understand it Is Not D‑base.

Anna: We\'re Currently Using Web Objects, and They\'ve Done a Lot of
Work, the Developer Is From Web Objects, and He\' Done a Lot of Work
with Us to Get That Converted. I Don\'t Know If You Have Anything to Add
on That.

Harold: No, I Don\'t. Well, I Really Appreciate All of The Faxes and
Phone Calls We\'ve Got. That Was Really Great. We Didn\'t Even Have to
Do Any Phony Stuff up Here to Kill Any Time Before We Got Them, So What
I Want to Do Now Is Go to Some Closing Comments, Anna, Some Thoughts?

Anna: Yeah, I Have Some Thoughts on This. As I\'ve Gone Through the
System, I Found it a Lot Easier to Input My Data and to Pull out My
Data, Even Though the Report Function Isn\'t Working, but I Can See
Where It\'s Going to Be a Lot Easier to Use. A Lot of Problems or a Lot
of Things That We Got from the Field Office, like Input from The Field
Office, Were That They Were Having Troubles Pulling out Their Reports.
So Being Able to Just Click on a Button and Then Click the Report You
Want, and Running the Report Will Make it So Much Easier for You Doing
it Through RMiS 3.0. I\'m Looking Forward to Hearing From You on
Anything You Want to See Changed or Any Comments You Feel about the New
RMiS 3.0. Harold?

Harold: Thanks, Rodger, Do You Have Closing Comments?

Rodger: Thanks, Harold, an Narcotics I Do Have Closing Comments. As I
Mentioned Earlier in My Comments, It\'s Really Important That We Have
Some Reliable Data. I Want to Encourage You to Put Data in as You Go
Throughout the Year, as Harold Mentioned That He Does. The Importance of
That Is That It\'s Fresh in Your Mind after You\'ve Done an Event or
Some Kind of Activity. The Sooner You Get it In, the More Reliable That
Information Is Going to Be. If You Wait until the End of the Year,
Likely You Will Lose Some Of the Information or Misplace Some of It. Try
to Keep it up To Date. Another Reason for That Is That We Will Be Using
That Information Throughout the Year And Referring to it Both Us and
Managers at Higher Levels and Even Omb and as I Mentioned Gao Does
Audits and We Provide Information to Them. If We Can Have Reliable
Information as We Go Rather than Wait until the End of the Year, It\'s a
Much More Useful System To Awful Us. I Want to Say Thank You to Harold
and to Anna and the Whole RMiS Team and All of the Support We\'ve Had
from Upper Management. It\'s Really an Exciting Project That We\'ve
Done. The Rehost Has Gone Very, Very Well. I\'m Sure You Are All Excited
About How it Looks and its He\'s Ease of Use. I Know I Am. Get out There
and Enjoy it and Thanks for the Opportunity to Provide Information for
You.

Harold: I Had a Couple of Thoughts Myself. I Think You\'re Going to Find
That this Program Is Much Better Than 2.4. I Know We\'ve Been on a Soup
Box Talking about That, but It\'s Really Much Easier to Use. It\'s
Almost a Pleasure to Get in And Manipulate Plate Data. Anna Is Laughing,
but It\'s Really Neat. And Remember, It\'s Your Program. We Still Need
to Know, Those of Us on the RMiS Team, When There\'s Something That We
Need To Do to the Program to Help You Do Your Job and Get Better
Information to Do Better Reporting. So You Need to Stay in Contact, Let
Us Know When You Find Things In this Ram. It\'s New. As I Said Earlier,
this Is Not The Technical Training, this Is Really an Overview. We\'re
Available to Take Your Calls Any Time. Remember The, You Know, We\'re
Listed in the Book, and Let\'s Work Together and I Think You\'re Going
to Really Enjoy this Program. Well, That about Wraps at Some Point for
Our RMiS 3.0 Training. I\'d like to Thank All of You Who Called and
Faxed Us with Questions. We Appreciate Your Participation. We\'d like to
Especially like to Thank Rodger from the Washington Office Who Shared
His Perspectives on the Importance Of RMiS. Remember, Contact Anyone on
the RMiS Team as You Begin to Use The System. We\'ll Be Staffing Phones
this Afternoon and Tomorrow Morning At the National Training Center.
Those Will Be the Numbers in Your Book. This Gives You Time to Try the
System Today and Tomorrow Morning and Call Us If You Have Questions.
We\'ll Be at the Phones from 8 A.m. Tomorrow Morning until Noon, Pacific
Daylight Time. Starting next Week, You Can Call Your RMiS Team Member
Contact Directly with Questions. Team Members Are Listed on Page 72 of
Your User\'s Guide. We\'d like to Remind All BLM Satellite Downlink
Coordinators To Complete the Roster and Fax It to the NTC Immediately
Following Our Show, or Use NTC\'s Automated Viewer Reporting System on
the NTC Home Page at Www.ntc.blm.gov/satnet. All of You Will Be
Receiving an E‑mail Asking You to Complete an Evaluation of Today\'s
Program And the RMiS System. We Would Appreciate You Taking The Time to
Fill it out and Send It Back to Us. We Love to Hear from You. We Hope
Today\'s Program Has Given You a Better Understanding Of the RMiS
System. Good Luck as You Begin Entering Your Fy99 Data. Thanks for
Watching and So Long From Phoenix!