NEW FEATURES: pre-plotted plans and an enhanced user experience
16th December 2015
We have talked about the evolution of our commercial portal elsewhere in this newsletter. The lessons learned have been applied to our residential clients who now benefit from a number of fantastic new features; feedback has been positive with the updates offering significant time savings.
Mapping
- Intelligent Plans
If the property is registered, the plan will be pre-plotted with the extent of the boundary making creating a plan a matter of just a few clicks.
- Full Screen
Rather than a small window, the mapping is now full screen to enable complete oversight of an area and help with the outlining of unregistered and non-addressed properties. Additional parcels can also be included with just a few clicks.
- Simple tools
If a plan is not pre-plotted, the flood fill and pencil tools have been improved to make the selection of the boundary quicker and more accurate. A simple zoom function helps with the identification of the boundary and enables you to have an overview of a large area.
A short user guide is available; please click here
User Experience
What if the ETSOS portal knew which of it’s features you used regularly and which were not relevant to you? What if it could remove those features that you didn’t use and left the ones you did?
In early 2016 a new version of the ordering module will be released that will hide the parts of the portal you do not use. The result will be a much simpler and cleaner user experience that will be more relevant to you.
We are, as ever, always looking for feedback so if you have any thoughts on the new layout please do not hesitate to get in touch with your Account Manager.
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System Maintenance
Please be aware that we are performing some system maintenance this weekend. We don’t anticipate that this will result in any downtime of our services, but we apologise if it does cause any inconvenience
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