DisneyNOW Design : Onboarding Tips & Tricks

Welcome

New team members are encouraged to update this page with your tips and tricks and "things to know" you've learned...

Team Working Hours

In general, our expectations for core working hours are that everyone is here are 10am-4pm. We of course all still need to get our full 8 hours in :) but some of us come in much earlier than 10am and leave at 4pm and some of us come in by 10am and stay much later than 4pm. As long as it evens out for a solid work day we’re good.

If you need to occasionally get in later than 10am or leave earlier than 4pm, just send out a quick note to the team to let everyone know expectations.

There will be occasional times that we need to work nights or weekend days in order to meet deliverables or when we’re in ship mode. But, our goal is for those moments to be as rare as possible. They do happen, but they should be the exception.

Engineering Partners

Previously EIA team is now called Platform Engineering (PE)

Previously Cross Platform Engineering (CP) is now called Native App Engineering (NAE)

Inside.Disney for General Disney Info:

https://inside.disney.com/

Don't know who someone is? Use Rostr!

https://rostr.disney.com/

Confluence Access

Slack Jen PMO, Jeff Barton, or PMO.

Wifi Access:

Official Disney WiFi: WLAN-TWDC (log in with your hub ID)

Fun fact, sometimes WLAN-TWDC can be connected to in parts of the Disney parks!

7th Floor WiFi: Devices (p: 12345678)

7th Floor Kitchen Printer Setup (for Macs:

IP: 10.102.90.103

DTools IT How-to: https://disney.service-now.com/DToolsIT/knowledge.do?sysparm_document_key=kb_knowledge,4297ae358c43b100bbb230d2496aa0c6

IT Help Desk

1.866.534.7639 x8665

Software to Download

Badge Access for The Burbank Center (TBC)

Fill out the form for “Request for a Replacement Badge or Access Control Issue”:

Select “Access Control Issue” as the reason for the request and detail that you need access to TBC for meetings
Save to Submit

The Burbank Center address: 3800 W Alameda Ave, Burbank, CA 91505

Enter garage from Kenwood St.
You can grab a ticket and then when leaving the garage, give the ticket along with your badge to the parking attendant for free exit.

Conference Rooms to Schedule Meetings

Outlook Name	Features	Occupancy	Directions from Design
!CR CALA DATG Digital 7091	Design space; white boards; multi screen; TV devices	Team	Kitchen, left side, at corner
!CAL CALA DATG Digital 7052	Room for the whole team,  TV	Team +	Facing the kitchen along the window
!CAL CALA, DATG Digital 7017	Full glass wall and door, TV for hdmi
!CR CALA ABC Bldg Rm 7022
!CR CALA ABC Bldg Rm 7149
!CR CALA ABC Bldg Rm 7131
!CAL ABC 7th floor DATG Digital 7030	TV	Team

Employee Clubs and Resources

Also a few more here

Requesting Guest Access

Email: Studio.Guest.Pass@disney.com

Tell them guest name and yours, when they're visiting, and what building you work in
- Your building info can be found in Rostr

Parking

In order to park in any of the garages around the lot, visit Julie in the Control Access Center to register your vehicle. Once registered, you will recieve a sticker for your car associated with your assigned parking garage. In the case that you are driving car that is not in your name, like a rental car, still speak with Julie and she will let the guards know to let you by without a sticker.

Set the Location Where Screenshots Are Saved

Create a file in which you would like your screenshots to be saved. Open terminal and enter the following script using the name of the folder you created.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/Screenshots

Faster Blue Jeans Meeting Linking

https://disney.bluejeans.com/settings/room-settings configure your settings
See Username/My Meeting URL (https://bluejeans.com/Angela.Glass)
Set your custom ID (using your number or any personally memorable number): 415 602 1414
Set a default meeting title: “Angela Glass & the Muppets Meeting”
Check off boxes on those lists under “My Meeting” and “Scheduled Meeting” based on useful preferences
Setup a signature in Outlook
Apply signature to new meeting requests you make (unfortunately the dialog doesn’t have an option for INVITES just EMAIL… can we tweet someone?!)
Enjoy!
Extra credit: LOOK! 👀 there are commas in that phone number…. If you saved that number string as a phone number in your contacts and called it (it would be enabled by a link because the engine knows what that comma means) then it would … work, and try it out. (comma is pause, needed two commas for enough pause before entering my meeting ID).

Example

https://bluejeans.com/Angela.Glass
1-888-240-2560,, 415 602 1414#
Meeting ID: 415 602 1414
Passcode: 0000

Great vacation calendar suggestion from Jeff...

Inputting Vacation Days to DATG Design Calendar

…and already put into practice by Samantha.

We’ve gotten really good at sharing our time out of office with each other (awesome and thank you!), but Jeff suggested a further improvement.

Going forward, please make any time out of office as an

“ALL DAY EVENT” so that it shows up in calendars across the top rather than inline in your day. There’s a checkbox in Outlook that makes something an all day event.
Then, just put the hours of the day you’ll be out in the Subject of the meeting request and we’ll all be golden.
Make sure you mark "Show as Free" so that you don't block out other people's calendar
Mark “No Responses Requested”.

Frontify

Easy access to all of our production templates, please click on link below.

https://disney.frontify.com/auth/huZvE4y1/?referer=/hub/1

If you need access, please ask Cherrie Go or David Avery. Once you are invited set up an account and password.