Assessment Authors - v4.3 and later Info for v4.2 and earlier

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To author assessments using Test Pilot, the author must be added to Test Pilot's list of internal authors. Note that assessment indices may not be created until there is at least one authorized author defined.

The author list is edited as any user list. A list of users is presented first. The list is sorted by name or id as determined by the Name/ID popup menu:

Following the list of users is an editing area where you may make new entries or change or delete existing entries. Clicking on any existing entry in the list will cause the information about that entry to be presented in the editing area. Depending upon your server authentication architecture a password editing box may or may not be displayed. Consider the following sample editing area resulting from clicking on the name Kennedy above.

When changing an existing entry, the password is never shown and will remain unchanged unless a new entry is made in the empty password box. As for the remaining fields, you may simply make changes and then click the Update Entry button to record the changes. The ID field may not be changed. If you have an incorrect ID, delete the entry and create a new one.

To create a new entry, click the New Entry button, fill in the appropriate fields and click Update Entry. There is no limit to the size of a user list. Entries are displayed 100 at a time. Again, remember that assessment indices may not be created until there is at least one authorized author defined.

To delete an entry, click on the id in the user list to have the entry displayed in the editing area. Then, check the enable deletion checkbox and finally click the Delete Entry button. Please note that in the case of authors, you may not delete any author who owns a Test Pilot index. That is, you must reassign ownership of all indices that are currently owned by the author in order to be permitted to delete them.

You may also import a list of authors from either a file stored on the Test Pilot server or from a list pasted into a space provided.

Test Pilot assumes a tab or comma delimited ASCII file of users listed one per line such as what might be created by ALL common database, spreadsheet, word processor or text editing programs. You will need to tell Test Pilot the order of the fields in your data by entering numbers as appropriate in the spaces provided. If the information is in a server file in the format recognized by version 3 of Test Pilot, simply click the v3 format checkbox.

Import from a Field - If you paste the user information into the field provided, be sure to click the button to indicate that you are importing from a field.

Import from a File - If you are importing from a file, be sure to click the button to indicate that you are importing from a file. For security purposes, Test Pilot imports from files located in the web server's current directory as defined by the URL used to access the index management options. If you used

http://SERVER/servlet/TestPilot4/tests/joe/mytest.tp4?manage

then Test Pilot uses the joe subdirectory of the tests subdirectory of the web server's document root directory.

Enter the name of the ASCII file in the selected directory which contains the user information and click the Import button. The files MUST have an extension of .txt or .tpj. Be sure to remove the file after importing to avoid any privacy or security issues.

About the Author Data

Each author is assigned a unique id and a password which will be associated with their name and e-mail entires. The fields are defined as follows:

id - this is an arbitrary string of one or more characters; spaces, commas, tabs or nonpriniting characters are not allowed. It is this id which must be entered in security challenges when they appear.

On Windows NT/2K/XP servers running IIS, this id must be a valid login account name. This means that all Test Pilot authors must have a valid login accouint when using Test Pilot on Windows servers running IIS.

password - this is an arbitrary string of one or more characters; spaces, commas, tabs or nonpriniting characters are not allowed. It is this password which must be entered in security challenges when they appear.

On Windows NT/2K/XP servers running IIS, Test Pilot will remove this column in favor of the id's already defined password.

name - this is an arbitrary string of one or more characters; spaces, commas, tabs or nonpriniting characters are not allowed. This name will be associated with the id and listed on reports and links where appropriate.

email - this should be a valid internet e-mail address including an account id, an @ sign and a domain name which together form an email address for the author. It is to this e-mail address that notifications and other messages automaticaly generated by the Test Pilot program will be sent.