Release Notes
Release notes have been incorporated directly into Crisisworks since Release 4.29 in March 2020, (see Help → Release Notes), and the following release notes are now no longer updated and are here for historical purposes only.
Currently, Datalink is updating FCMS with Car Park asset data when provide by the customer.
The current process (assuming a full list of Car Park asset is provided) is to inactive current assets (and geowiki items) and import the entire set afresh.
Step 1 - Mark existing car park assets as inactive.
This is not as simple as targeting all active assets of a certain type, as Car Park assets are imported via geo wiki import and share the asset type with other facilties. In production there is only one such asset, Redfern Office, however before embarking on this process it is best to ensure that there are no others to consider.
To check run
select * from asset
where type = 'Transit_Asset_Register_Item'
and status > 0
and friendly LIKE '%Office%'
order by friendly;Note: There is an asset called Redfern Office Car Park which is a valid car park.
To make all existing car park assets inactive, run, for example
UPDATE asset
SET status = -1
WHERE type = 'Transit_Asset_Register_Item'
AND status > 0
AND friendly != 'Redfern Office'
Step 2 - Mark the exisiting Geo Wiki items as inactive
Identify the wiki items to target.
For example
select id
from register_item
where registerid = 'wiki'
and itemschemaname = 'geofeature'
and status >0
and id not in (162871);Note: 162871 is to exclude the Redfern Office wiki doc. However you will need to review the list to ensure that there are not any other items to exclude.
Once you have a list of id’s run the following command(with ids to target) on management01:
sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /mnt/crisisworks-data/code/crisisworks/active/production-fcms/scripts/bravo CWAM-CW5 /mnt/crisisworks-data/sites/fcms
command run Register_Command_UpdateRegisterItems --registerId=wiki --auditComment='Datalink-Support-Bulk-close-car-park_wiki_items_to-support-fresh-import' --changeset='{"status": "-3", "tags": "bulk_close"}' --criteria='{"id":[<insert-comma-separated-list-of-ids>], "id_operator": "in"}'
Step 3 - Import Data
The import process uses the Car Park and Facility Import option available in the UI, currently using the CW4 UI. Go to https://fcms.crisisworks.com and then select the Import menu option.
From the import screen…
and allows for the following
Import with this options
You can sign up for 2020 online webinar training sessions at webinars.crisisworks.com.au
The January 2021 Schedule will be set by January 6th 2021
These are the high level agenda’s for each session
Session Types:
Beginners (2 hours)
This session is for people that have not used Crisisworks before, however, do have emergency management training.
This hands-on session will cover creating records in the core modules with some discussion and demonstration of other areas of the system for familiarity reasons in case they need to use them.
You will be required to watch the beginners training video first and try to create a few records
Recovery (2 hours)
This session will focus on ERC, offers, recovery, SIA, roster availability and timesheets
Using the new communications module for recovery cases
If you have not used Crisisworks before you will be required to watch the beginners training video first and try to create a few records.
Recovery Manager (2 hours)
This module will summarise the material in the recovery session with hand on with key needs and overview of other areas
Workflow
New security policies
Classifications
Reporting
importing data
Advanced searches
Managing SIA
Working with geospatial areas.
Managing needs & Tasks & Bulk Actions
Working with external agencies
Rostering & Timesheets
Prerequisite Recovery session (unless you have prior experience using Crisisworks recovery)
System Admin (2 hours)
This session is for the Crisisworks System Administrators
Creating & editing positions
Importing users
Managing users
Recovery security policies (new)
Importing Data
Exporting Data
Working with geospatial areas
Enabling public offers and public ERC forms to be linked to a new event
Comms and Expertise (1 hour)
This session is for the Crisisworks system administrators and coordinators to learn about two new modules, Communications and Expertise.
Communications — learn how to send communications to a small and large number of internal and external contacts that can be tracked and acknowledged.
Expertise — learn how to manage your staff’s qualifications and experience all year round, search users based on their expertise, and send communications, handle responses and onboard users into events.
Champions Training (January)
Details in January
February 19 — February 21
We are pleased to announce the release of Crisisworks 4.28, which continues our series of incremental upgrades to support the 2020 bushfire recovery.
Key highlights of this release
We’ve improved performance
We’ve re-written the merge facility so that it now supports undoing a merge
We’ve added initial support for setting up scheduled reports
Some reports now support being able to update their contained items upon completion — this allows reports to be set up to send delegated tasks to agencies each morning and transition the containing task’s status.
The EMV Recovery Portal integration has been dusted off and verified ready for use.
New and improved
New: Imports can now support attaching files from CSV links
Improved: More file types are supported as attachments, including CSV and EML
Improved: performance of the Recovery Task with Case report
Improved: allow opening of closed (duplicate) items
Improved: “Activity” panels are now expanded by default, now that performance is improved
Improved: Redirecting *.mecccentral.com → *.crisisworks.com
Improved: Audit log entries now strip any HTML from comments
Improved: Asset searching for addresses with postcodes or address ranges work
Improved: When signing in, the system will do better at remembering your last duty and last selected event
Improved: The data grid no longer refreshes when new data arrives; instead, you will be notified and have control over refreshing it.
Improved: Added a confirmation alert before merging items
Improved: some counter tweaks have been made to registers based on analysing usage
Improved: Offers gets an export report
Fixed
Fixed: Offline app email validation preventing cases from being saved
Fixed: Removed “Saved Searches” admin menu item (this will re-appear in future when the feature is released)
Fixed: Safari users were sometimes running out of memory causing infinite spinners; this has been detected and fixed.
Fixed: IE users had some errors
Fixed: Some users had troubles scheduling reports where the report got stuck in the “pending” state.
Faster
Performance improvements include much better handling of large-scale activations through horizontal platform scaling, and through heavy optimisations of counters, audit logging and background tasks.
Load balancing now better-handles switching between readers and writers in the database cluster to leverage scaling the number of readers under load
Event convex hull calculations are tuned to handle large polygons and large events
The activity feed API is pre-calculated to avoid slow-downs
Counter calculations detect and respond to high load events where they have been delayed running, and avoid building outdated counters
Bulk actions no longer trigger counter re-calculations for each item added or imported
Many internal performance fine-tuning experiments have been rolled out to all sites
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.