CHCNAV CHC i83 - Best OPUS Practices for New and Experienced Users; The OPUS Error Message Joke; OPUS-RS Is Dicey; Only some Submissions Are Being Returned by OPUS

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Enter the exact identifier:
as the new project name.
Select the new Project:
and check the ‘OPUS-Project’ checkbox under the Project selector.
3. When you submit an occupation that has been moved to the project, the upload tool will automatically press the
‘OPTIONS’ button on the OPUS submission form and fill in the project identifier:
Best OPUS Practices for New and Experienced Users
After supplying OPUS targeted receivers for many years, we know that most users experience the same reoccurring
problems.
The suggestions in this chapter will save you time and failures.
The ‘OPUS Error Message’ Joke
“The NGS processing engine has a big fishbowl with 500 possible error messages printed on little slips of paper. If a
job fails, the OPUS processor removes the five best error messages from the fishbowl. Next the fishbowl is shaken,
and three to five slips are randomly pulled from the fishbowl and returned to the user.”
OPUS error reporting is getting better. Someday this joke won’t be funny anymore.
But you should remember this: ‘you are not alone.’ Every-Single-Day a substantial number of all OPUS submissions fail
and most fail with a confusing error message.
#1 OPUS-RS is Dicey
When you send OPUS occupations, there is a graphic that shows the daily number of jobs and
the daily success rate.
On most days over 25% of all submitted OPUS-RS (Rapid Static) jobs fail!
Relatively few OPUS-Static jobs fail, and most of the Static jobs that fail initially will successfully
process when resubmitted the following day.
When using OPUS RS or Static longer occupations are
always
better. OPUS-Static is always more
reliable than OPUS-Rapid Static.
Please remember if you are submitting 15 to 30-minute OPUS-RS occupations
they WILL fail
regularly
. Don’t be surprised and don’t blame your receiver.
#2 Only Some Submissions are being returned by OPUS
OPUS always returns an email.
Always
. But missing solutions is a common issue.
If you are not getting solutions or an error message back, the missing solutions have been trapped in your email SPAM
filter or you have entered your email address incorrectly on the submission form.