XFRACAS Portal

When you first access XFRACAS, you will see the XFRACAS Portal page. Other pages may also be displayed if your company chooses:

The What’s New page can be used to display announcements about changes in the system. If the page has been updated since the last time you logged in, it will be displayed in a separate browser window when you access the Portal. It will not be displayed again until it is next changed.
If your company maintains a Terms of Use agreement page for XFRACAS, this page will be displayed the first time you access XFRACAS each day. Click OK to agree to the terms of use and go to the Portal.

The XFRACAS Portal displays private and system/company-wide announcements as well as the current user’s tasks. This information may be based on the current entity or based on all of the entities that you have access to, depending on your Portal settings, which are specified on the Portal Preferences page.

The XFRACAS Portal can be accessed at any time by choosing Home > Portal > XFRACAS.

Announcements

For each announcement, an icon indicates whether it is public ( ) or private ( ). The name of the user who created the announcement is displayed on the right side of the announcement title. Users can post an announcement by clicking the Edit Announcements icon, , in the upper right corner of the Announcements area, and can update or remove an announcement that they created by clicking the public/private icon associated with the announcement. The Create/Update Announcement page will appear. Only users with specific permissions can create system/company-wide announcements. All other users can create only private announcements, which will be visible only to them in the Announcements area. Additionally, only authorized users can update and/or remove an announcement created by another user.

Users can click the Announcements History icon, , to display a historical list of all announcements that exist in the database via the Announcement History page.

Tasks

The task list for the current user may include the following items. For each category, the number of pending records will appear at the top of the section. You can click any record number to open the record. Dates for the records (e.g., due dates) will appear in red when the record is within a specified time of the date, depending on the settings chosen by the system administrator.

The Open Synthesis Actions section displays the user's Synthesis actions that have not yet been completed. This section is available only if the user has permissions to access data in the Synthesis Desktop Elements (SDE) tables in the current database.
The Uncompleted Actions section displays the user’s uncompleted action items.
The Unclosed Incidents section displays the user’s incidents that have not yet been closed.
The Team Member Unclosed Incidents section displays the unclosed incidents for which the user is a team member.
The Open Problems section displays the user’s open problems.
The Team Member Open Problems section displays the open problems for which the user is a team member.
The Problems to Review section displays the problems that need to be reviewed by the user (i.e., problems for which the user is a member of a Failure Review Board).
The My Projects section displays the open projects that have been assigned to the user.
The Team Member Projects section displays the open projects for which the user is a team member.

Note that the number of items displayed in each section is determined by your settings on the Portal Preferences page. The number in parentheses at the top of each section indicates the complete count and is a link that, when clicked, will run a search for all of the relevant records and bring up a list in the Reports page.