Page Comparison

Document formatting :

• Canadian directives: {AD_NUMBER}-{LANG}.{HTM|PDF} (Note : Notes 1) Country code for Canada, is already the prefix of the AD document name 2) The Language suffix is only used for Canadian issued ADs)

• Foreign directives: {COUNTRY-CODE}{AD_NUMBER}.{HTM|PDF}

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Export folder

\\ncrws488\tcwwwtest\Aviation\applications\AWD-CN\documents

External web folder

https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/AWD-CN/documents/

\\tcinfomaster\tcapps\Saf-Sec-Sur\2\AwD-CN\documents

Internal web folder

https://tcapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/AwD-CN/documents/

Document Archive folders

\\ncrws488\tcwwwtest\Aviation\applications\AWD-CN\working

\\ncrfs345\GROUPS\AARD\AARD Public\CAWIS-REPORTS\Ad_archive\working

TROUBLESHOOTING

A full list of the contents of AD web can be had by the following method :

1. open Open a (dos) command line

2. enter (or paste in) the following and hit enter
   DIR   "\\tcinfomaster\tcapps\Saf-Sec-Sur\2\AwD-CN\documents\*.*" > C:\ADINVENTORY.TXT

3. the text file created at C:\ADINVENTORY.TXT will contains the names and qualifications of every document found on AD web. NOTE : there are a large number of garbage files on the external web from 25+ years of activity and CAW is unable to delete from the external web folder. Most of these files have already been overwritten with a redirect file to the CAWIS main menu.

Any specific AD File can be found on a physical lookup

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• Ensure all files for export are available at :
  \\ncrws488\tcwwwtest\Aviation\applications\AWD-CN\documents

• Verify in CAWIS, the status of the "make live to web" flag, and the appropriate “document available” flags

  

• Ensure the file name is in the proper format.

• Ensure that the export script is running (script intervals : 20 mins)

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• Go to the document archive at :
  \\ncrfs345\GROUPS\AARD\AARD Public\CAWIS-REPORTS\Ad_archive\working
  to reaquire reacquire the document, if necessary

• Sort the list descending by modified date

• Copy desired files back over to the export folder

• Ensure the file name(s) are in in the proper format

• Wait 20 minutes for export

• Reverify the export with a physical lookup

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A TC published AD involving Canadian TCH products should be distributed to :

1. all owners/operators of the affected products found on the current Canadian register (5008 module)

2. all International Civil Aviation Authorities/ICAO members (SIGS module) having an email address

3. all other special interest groups requesting updates on that product (SIGS module) having an email address

4. all TC regional office reference centers

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1. all owners/operators of the affected products found on the current Canadian register (5008 module)

2. only the Civil Aviation Authority that is the TCH holding country of that product (SIGS module)

3. if possiblypossible, the manufacturer contact for that product (SIGS module)

4. all TC regional office reference centers

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1. all owners/operators of the affected products found on the current Canadian register (5008 module)

2. all TC regional office reference centers

A Foreign published AD not involving Canadian TCH products, should be distributed to

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All other requestors (mostly foreign airlines and AMOs) are should be directed to subscribe to E-news (subscribe)

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1. Not ALL Canadian published ADs pertain to Canadian TCH products, only. There can be a mix of Canadian & Foreign.

2. Canadian TCH products are occasionally found on Foreign issued ADs and these are sometimes adopted by TC (though, normal practice is that TC/CAW reviews the AD, and then issues a Canadian AD afterward)

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PDF publication began in 2004 in conjunction with HTM, and is not now the only format exported to AD web, except in cases where the inspectors are posting old ADs on newly acquired products, and HTM is the only format available. PDF’s were ultimately produced for all TC published ADs back to 1933.

Canadian AD publication history

Documents for, many, lower revisions of Canadian ADs could not be found and do not exist as PDF’s

Documents for many cancelled Canadian AD’s could not found and do not exist as PDF’s - though many PDFs for these exist on the web as redirect pages. All cancelled ADs had their “document available” flags set to No in 2021.

Hardcopies of these missing documents should be tracked down, scanned and added to the archive, at some point.
The Archive for all available Canadian AD documents is available at :

\\ncrfs345\GROUPS\AARD\AARD Public\CAWIS-REPORTS\Ad_archive\CF-DOCS

though all of these documents are also found in the main AD archive at :

\\ncrfs345\GROUPS\AARD\AARD Public\CAWIS-REPORTS\Ad_archive\working

Sale Reported / Invalid Address operators

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1. have the cancelled indicator ticked on the AD modify page

2. untick all “document available” links

3. The word cancelled is to appear at the beginning of the subject -or- cancelled by in the event that it has been replaced by a new AD.

4. If cancelled by a new AD, the Country Code/Ad number needs to be filled into the appropriate AD fields, and included in the AD subject where it is hyperlinked when displayed on AD web

5. Ideally, cancelled ADs should be deleted from the External/Internal web folder(s), but CAWIS users cannot access either. So the practice was created to overwrite old documents using “dummy” docs having the same name ( sample DUMMY AD ) as outlined in TFS ITEM #13712. The user’s concern here was that cancelled and/or superseded versions of old ADs were still available to the public through Google search, despite no longer being available using AD web.

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