What are the latest NFWV features?
Transport Disruption Assessment – bus route data loaded in for additional regions
GTFS bus route data is now loaded into the Forward Works Viewer, so if your region has your bus stops and routes published in GTFS, you’ll be able to see if your projects intersect with a bus stop or bus route. The following regions use GTFS:
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Waikato Regional Council
- Otago Regional Council
- Hawkes Bay Regional Council
- Bay of Plenty Regional Council
- Environment Canterbury
- Auckland Transport
“First published” date introduced on projects
A long awaited update – we have introduced a ‘first published’ field on all projects so now you can see the date a project first appeared in the Forward Works Viewer, along with the existing ‘Last Updated’ date, which is the date the project was last edited. The caveat is that the date will say ‘unavailable’ for all projects published before mid-July, as we don’t have the data for that, but projects published since then will have the first published date. The ‘first published’ date can be found at the bottom of the project summary page.
Contact details hidden on projects completed over 6 months ago
Contact information on the project summary will now be hidden for projects which have completed more than 6 months ago. This is because the contact info is unlikely to be accurate for historic projects and to improve privacy. The contact information will still be available, but it will need to be requested by an email to the support desk.
New user role – ‘Project Editor’
The ‘project editor’ role is a part-way role between the existing ‘business user’ and ‘project planner’ role. It will enable users to add project boundaries and transport impacts to projects which do not have boundaries for their organisation, but they will not be able to edit any of the project details (such as description, title, dates or contact information). This is good for organisations who don’t provide us with geospatial data and use the FWV to draw their boundaries – they can be confident that their data isn’t being changed accidentally in the FWV when boundaries are being added.
Improvements to project stage creation
We have noticed that more and more users are creating projects with stages, but the workflow is a bit cumbersome so we’ve made some improvements. Now when you create a multistage project, once you’ve clicked save after project creation, the project will open up on the stage page – giving you confirmation that the first stage has created, and making it easier to add subsequent stages.
Coming Soon…
Additional Improved Stage workflow
We will also be changing the way stages are displayed on the stage tab. Stages which have passed their end date will turn grey and move to the bottom of the page, whilst stages which remain in progress and planned will remain white and at the top of the list.
Additional Basemaps and a map legend
To bring the FWV more inline with it’s sister product (Underground Asset Register) we’ll introduce some additional basemaps, including a monochome map which will reduce visual clutter, and a dark-mode map.
We will also introduce a map legend so you’ll quickly be able to understand what all the different project colours on the map mean.
TDA enhancements
Soon you’ll be able to edit your saved TDA report, and set up notifications so when new projects match your TDA criteria they’ll appear in the weekly email. You’ll also be able to see which bus route or bus stop that your project intersects with, if the bus route data is coming from GTFS.