Crisisworks 4.27 Released

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:

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.

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