SitReport Frequently Asked Questions

Be sure you logged in using lower case letters in the user name.  (i.e. the user name "OPS$SITREPORT" needs to be in lower case "ops$sitreport".)  You can verify this by looking at the user name following the "Welcome to SIT" text at the top of the page.  If you have logged in with an upper case character you will need to exit all versions of your web browser software and then start a new version of the browser and return to the famweb.usda.gov web page.  If you are not prompted for your username and password again, you didn't close all the windows for browser.

Currently the Sitreport application uses the Central Time Zone, because the server is located in Kansas City.  Therefore on the Welcome to SIT page and the Report list page the date in the "Enter the desired date" field is defaulted to today's date based on the Central Time Zone not your local time zone.

If you change the Year to Date values on the Year to Date entry screen, you need to go to the reports page to verify the data that is stored in the database.  If you want to see the change on the Year to Date entry screen, you need to submit the changes for the Year to Date entry screen for yesterday, then return to the Year to Date entry screen for today.

The Year to Date screen was probabily not submitted.  Resubmit the page.  If the problem persists contact the Fire Applications Helpdesk (800.253.5559 or fire?/wo_nifc@fs.fed.us).

The screen were probably not submitted.   Make sure you use the "Submit" button at the bottom of each data entry screen, before using the tabs at the top of the screen.  If there is no data for large incidents or planned prescribed fires, you can use the tabs at the top of the screen to move to the next data entry screen.

NR stands for "Not Reported".   The NR showes up when there is no data for that unit for that given day, and is based on the last report date by each unit.  If the "Submit" button was not pressed for each screen which data was collected including the Year To Date date entry screen than an "NR" will be displayed in the Fire Danger block of the report.

This error is generally caused by putting a character such as a $ (dollar sign) in a numeric field.  This error is also generated when too many characters are entered in to a text field, such as the Remarks and On-call text on the Remarks data entry screen.  In the case of too many characters in the text field, use the counters associated with the text field entry box to see if you have entered more than the maximum allowed.  You can use the "Back" button on the browser to get back to the data entry screen that created this error.  The data you entered should be there.

Even though the SIT and WIMS are both using the Kansas City Computer Center (NITC), they use seperate logon procedures.  With SIT you log in directly to Oracle and WIMS you log into the mainframe and use the WIMS application to interact with Oracle

The problem is really with Internet Explorer 5.0.  For those who have loaded Internet Explorer 5.0 (which was included in Office 2000) click Tools Option from the toolbar, choose Internet Options,  then from the General  tab, in the Tempory Internet files block, choose Settings.  In the Settings window, under where it says Check for newer versions of stored pages:  check either Every visit to the page OR Every time you start Internet Exporer. Be sure to say OK at each window to save your changes.