Today I noticed the option to view/add CPEs has changed. And not in a positive way.
Previously, a list sorted by date showed you your CPEs. At the bottom a button to add new CPEs. Although certainly not a modern look, it was functional as the list was sorted on date-order, so it was easy to see what you may have missed to add in the past.
Now the top part of the screen is the option to add CPEs, so you don't need to scroll down to add CPEs. Good.
However, there's no overview. You need to click another button to get to the overview. And this overview, well, this overview is useless. There are three columns with 'cards', unsorted, with blank spots in the columns. It's not an overview, its like a deck of cards that fell on the ground. Why not a sorted list? That's an overview and it takes less space on screen (no scrolling down to see what's there). And while I'm at it, can we also have a 'back' button on top and not only at the bottom of this overview?
Next, I had a look at the transcript. At least that's a list, but unfortunately, again, unsorted. Why?
Finally, I tried to add new CPEs. I need to get used to the new options I have to choose (I'll get that in the near future), but I got to the point where I could save my entry. Then it said this:
This confused me. Did I do something wrong? I can't find the entry I just made, so I don't know. Is it because it is 'gone' (there is an error message)? Or is it invisible because it's under review? If the latter, why not make it visible as 'under review'?
So, as a real IT guy, at the end, I tried to open the CPE manual. Tried, as the progress bar appeared which got stuck at 223kB/12MB, changing into 223kB/1,2MB, and then it complete crashed my browser. Stuck, nowhere to be moved, so I had to kill the process and start over again.
Am I happy with this new look/feel? Not yet at all. I'm hoping this is just the usual problematic startup of something new, while improvements are waiting around the corner.
What are your views?
No doubt somebody that can help you resolve the problem will contact you soon, they did with me. I was referring to my post just to indicate that there seem to be more problems with the new CPE registration software. Perhaps we could use this thread to "dump" our issues in, so that others in the community can see what already has been reported and save them the trouble.
One of my additional observations: the report (transcript) is haphazardly spread across the pages, the older format was much more pleasant looking / functional. See pic below.
