There are several methods of tracking units on routes and you can choose what suits you better.
Online Control
Active rounds are displayed in the timeline which is situated in the right lower part of the screen. Here you see all rounds which are in the progress at the moment as well as all manually created rounds. The round that have been activated 10 and more days ago are deleted from the timeline automatically.
If there are many rounds, you can filter them according to adjusted parameters: by route name, by schedule, round, unit. A criterion is chosen in the dropdown list, and in the text field on the right you enter name mask of a route/schedule/round/unit. You can also specify a time interval to show rounds for. To apply adjusted filtration parameters, press Enter.
Additionally, you can apply grouping to this list of rounds . Then each row on the list will be dedicated to one route/schedule/round/unit. The name of such a row will contain the number of items it holds (in brackets).
Timeline scale is adjustable — it can display a period of time equal to a fortnight or just a minute. In some scales, point names can overlap and become partly hidden. That is why there are several possibilities in displaying captions for check point:
do not show point names at all;
show names for hot check points, i.e. points where units are located at the moment or points awaiting arrival at;
show captions for all check points.
You can move the timeline right and left by simple dragging. Besides, it can move by itself in such a way to maintain the current moment in focus — press Lock current time for this . While this button is pressed, the timeline cannot be moved manually.
On the timeline, a route is represented by a horizontal line of such colour that was assigned to it. Check points are represented as vertical sections on this line and they are situated in the places where the arrival to a check point is expected according to the schedule. A check point can be also displayed as a rectangle if not only arrival but departure time as well are indicated in the schedule. Besides, check points which contain only arrival time can be expanded to rectangles at the expense of deviation time (if specified). For this, apply the Mark deviation time option .
Until a point is visited, it is displayed on the timeline as an empty rectangle; when visited, this rectangle obtains a filling of the colour assigned to the route. In addition, you can enable contours highlighting schedule violations:
yellow — late visit (delay);
pink — early visit (outrunning).
If a point has been visited in accordance to schedule, no contour will be applied. If a point has been skipped, it will obtain a red contour and a red filling regardless appointed route colour.
Apply the In fact option to see how a unit really visited the points — time of the real visit will be shown above the planned line.
Notifications about Routes
While a unit is performing a round, you can receive notifications about how it is going. To do this, create a notification of the Route control type and adjust it properly depending on your needs. You can be notified when a round has started or finished, if a check point has been skipped, and in some other cases. These notifications can be sent by e-mail or SMS, shown online in a popup window, stored in unit history as events or violations, etc. See Notifications for details.
Reports on Routes
All events connected with the unit performance on routes are stored in the system automatically. This data can be used to generate the following types of reports: