Monday 27th January — Monday 3rd February
We’ve been working closely with fire-affected councils over December and January, and this release comes chock-full of enhancements we’ve been making to help them, as well as some nice new features.
Advanced Search
This release Expands the new “CQL” querying language. (Crisisworks Query Language)
CQL combines a powerful full-text engine with intelligent field-based filtering and related record matching. Using CQL, highly detailed cross-register searches can be performed using a simple language.
Some examples of CQL searches:
is:active #foo NOT #bar
To use CQL, simply click the search icon for your favourite register, and type CQL into the top search box. Click the links below the search box to learn about the vocabulary.
Search within areas
With this release, you can now create a geographic reference item in the “Library” by drawing on the map or by uploading data from GIS systems and external systems.
By saving it as a “search area” and giving it a name, you can then search for records within the polygon by using CQL within:area-name or exclude records by using NOT within:area-name. This adds powerful geospatial search on known areas.
Searching on items based on criteria from another register
Say you’re trying to find Recovery Tasks that are related to Recovery Cases with a certain tag and status. You can now do this using CQL from the Recovery Task register.
Example — show active tasks where the related case has the tag “damaged” and urgent priority.
is:active recoveryCase.tags:damaged recoveryCase.priority:urgent
Search Help
Under the main text search field, there are links to documentation as well as the search dictionary.
In the coming weeks we will be releasing a tool to help you build up your queries more easily, in the meantime please ask us for help if you need a hand: support@crisisworks.com
More powerful bulk editing
Bulk editing now has more power, with many more fields now editable from the bulk edit user interface.
Users Bulk editing
You can now perform bulk edits on users, which includes adding and removing positions and tags and more.
Bulk Recovery task creation
From the Recovery Case datagrid, you can now bulk create a Recovery Task for each selected case which includes assigning to a service provider and other particulars you enter. This is great for bulk managing your Services Required.
Public volunteering
The offers register now supports public volunteering via a public form and a new schema that allows for more granular management of volunteering categories, sub-categories, availability information and more.
MFB Initial Impact Assessment import
The MFB impact assessment import parser has been updated and verified for 2020 to import MFB initial impact assessments. Contact Datalink for an import concierge service to take the hassle out of data sharing.
Duplicate Cases Report
A new report allows you to easily detect and manage duplicate Recovery Cases. Which includes search sort-cuts to help you find each with search examples such as asset.id:213618 is:active
Scheduled Reporting
Reports can now be scheduled to run each day (please let datalink know which report ID you want to set up for recurring automatic execution). Soon these reports will be able to be emailed to recipients and the staus of the record can be changed, such as recovery tasks being set to “referred” after the report is sent to a service provider.
Offline mobility improvements
Now, when offline on the mobile app you can view saved records on a map to see what’s nearby.
Other Improvements
Many performance enhancements make the system faster
Recovery Case v2 schema, including a section for hazards, and a split of property use types to allow for multiple selections (Initially on selected sites only).
Improvements to importing and data matching
Reporting updates
When creating a new position you can add it to multiple open events or templates or global workspace in one go.
Lots of minor fixes
This release contains the following fixes and enhancements:
Recovery Reports:
Limit of 2000 removed from all recovery reports. If there are more than 2000 rows to be returned it will disable formatting to increase the speed of the reports
Added temporary address fields to recovery reports. These fields are not enabled by default so you will need to tick on the checkbox under the “Select Columns to Show” area of the report.
User Profile - added links for email and phone for the email and mobile fields
Fixed issues with tags when importing cases and users.
This release includes some new features around asset searches and reporting.
It is now possible search assets by a Search Area. Search Areas are defined by creating a new Geospatial Wiki item and selecting an area on the map. These get saved as new Register Item Assets.
You can now have the option of exporting selected assets from the datagrid to 2 new reports that have been created:
An Asset Id report which simply displays the assetId's of the assets selected allowing you to export these to CSV. You can then use these assetId's for importing new register items.
An Asset Detailed report which displays the details for the assets selected