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Improve replace drawing feature

Currently the replace drawing feature is less than desirable and I actively avoid using it where possible. 

You can either clone and replace, which is fine if all the building floors are the same at every level (and the drawing hasn't moved on the page). 

But the replace drawing feature is..... very bad, the green and blue arrows are a silly way to determine a drawing replacement. If these arrows are in the wrong place or if the drawing has moved on the page, you are not able to replace correctly. 

This can result in a drawing replaced with overlaying calibrations no longer in the correct place, with tasks and forms attached to the calibrations. These means you need to move the tasks/forms, remove the calibration, recalibrate the location and place the tasks/forms back via the application (if you want the POI on the plan because the website doesn't include the drawings) - the movement of tasks/forms also needs to be done one by one because there is no bulk feature for this. This can be a mammoth task if every drawing needs replacing and the replace drawing feature doesn't work. In additon, if any task/form assigned to a location has been deleted, you can no longer remove the calibration, which means that you have gone through this whole process for nothing and come out worse off. 

 

The risk and adminitration time is too great, this sometimes means that you don't replace the drawings, which also means that they are not up to date and can lead to issues on site. 

 

Improving the replace drawing feature, to actually work effectively every single time is a must!

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  • Jan 16 2019
Company Unispace
Job Title / Role Systems Manager
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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