Monthly Archives: December 2018

Smap has relocated to Brisbane

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The Smap Consulting headquarters has moved from Canberra to Brisbane. The primary reason is to focus on projects in the South Pacific, Brisbane being a base for a lot of this work. We will continue of course to support all of our customers anywhere in the world and travel will be quicker and easier from here.

The company address is now:

7/47 Herston Road
Kelvin Grove,
Queensland, 4059
Australia

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Information Management

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Smap’s advanced capabilities in; linking data between forms, task management, unique key management, case management and notifications allows you to connect forms in order to create an information management system.   That is a set of collaborating forms that address one or more business processes in your organisation.

To illustrate this capability I have created a demonstration of a system that supports the registration and enrollment of students in education classes.   This demo is available on the Smap https://sg.smap.com.au server for you to try out.

The attached pdf provides detailed instructions on how to try the demo.  Hopefully this example will inspire you to create your own information management system using Smap.

Click to access studentEnrollment+minimal.pdf

Release 18.12

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Updates

Changes to the layout of the user administration page

The new feature to allow a user to belong to more than one organisation has prompted some changes to the user administration page.  The main one is the removal of the button to move a user to a different organisation.   Instead when you open the user for editing then, if you have organisation administration privilege, you will be able to set the users current organisation.

Set the users current organisation

Previously you would select one or more users by clicking on a checkbox next to their name and then click on the “Move to Organisation” or “Delete” button.  A delete button has now also been added next to each user so there is no longer a need to select users prior to taking an action.  The “Add User” button has also been moved above the list of users.

This is work in progress and their will be more changes to the user administration page layout in the next release.

Timezones

The management of timezones for reports and viewing data has been improved.

  1. You can set your timezone in your user profile.  (Available on all pages)
  2. The default timezone is the one your browser is set to however you can change this and it will be saved with your other settings.
  3. Exports to XLS include a new tab that shows the timezone used for all dates and times.
  4. You can set the timezone for a report independently of your personal time zone and this will be saved with the report

Legacy Reports

The old way of creating reports as snapshots of panels on the dashboard has been removed.

Administration Reports

Two reports have been added to the form management page:

  1. Usage.  How many submissions have been submitted per user for each project or form
  2. Form Access.  The users in your organisation have access to a form and why they have access or do not have access. This report considers the projects a user has access to, their security groups and their security roles as well as whether or not the form has been deleted or blocked.

Performance Improvements

As the number of people using Smap increases the size of data tables also increases and it becomes apparent that additional indexes are required.  2 new indexes were added in this release to improve the performance of messaging and submission processing.