<H2>Important Updates to ODS Track</H2>
<p><p>To all ODS Track Administrators,</p>
<p>This is to inform you of important updates to the ODS Track system which were rolled out today the 16th of April 2015. The following major updates have been rolled out:</p>
<ul>
<li>New<strong> credit version-control</strong></li>
<li>Ability to <strong>pull documents from template</strong></li>
<li><strong>Export entire tracker database to an open-source format</strong></li>
<li>Development of <strong>Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA) Template</strong></li>
<li>Print entire tracker outline to PDF</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credit revision-control</h3>
<p>You can now maintain multiple revisions of credits in both templates as well as local "project-level" trackers. This replaces the old "edit local copy" feature which was used to edit credit descriptions and objectives. You can create/edit and select revisions for credits from the revision-control drop-down menus at the top-right of the Credit page.</p>
<p>Previous credits that were edited via the "Edit Local Copy" method have been ported across as a new "Local Revision" under the new system. This change is seamless and no action is required from the administrators.</p>
<p>The advantage of the new method is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited versions of the credit may be created and is saved with the tracker</li>
<li>New revisions that are created at the template-level will appear and have the option to be used by all projects that are based on the template. This allows template-administrators to create new credit versions as they are released and gives project-users the option of adopting those new versions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pull documents from templates</h3>
<p>Documents may now be uploaded to a template and projects that are based on that template now have the option to pull those documents into their projects. This may be selected from the menu on the left-hand-side of the "Tracker Overview" page under the heading "Admin Options."</p>
<p>This may be useful if:</p>
<ul>
<li>There are consistent documents that are used across multiple projects. In this case a template should be created and the documents uploaded to the template. When a project is created based on that template then these documents may be pulled into the project without having to re-upload them.</li>
<li>If there are Submission Templates (as per Green Star 2014) which have consistent fields pre-filled, or, you would like to version-control them from a template-level.</li>
</ul>
<p>Documents may be uploaded to the template at any time and will be pulled into the project so long as the project-level document has not been edited or deleted. If the project-level document has been edited or deleted then the project-admin will have to use the "Reinstate Default Documents" operation from the Credit homepage to reinstate that document from the template.</p>
<h3>Export Tracker Database to JSON</h3>
<p>The tracker database may now be dumped to a text-based open-source format (JSON). All of the tracker information including comment history and scores are included in that file. In theory the tracker could be re-instated on any platform from the information contained in that file. This may be useful if:</p>
<ul>
<li>You would like to maintain consistent backups of the tracker database on your local servers (further to the daily backups that are maintained by ODS on their own servers)</li>
<li>You would like to do additional post-processing or analysis of your trackers on your own systems.</li>
</ul>
<h3> Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA) Template</h3>
<p>We have developed an Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Austraia (ISCA) infrastructure-rating tool template. This template is not currently available publicly due to copyright limitations by the ISCA. The template may be provided for your project upon proof of project registration.</p>
<h3>Print Tracker Outline to PDF</h3>
<p>You may now print an entire tracker to a PDF-document. This is useful if you have developed a custom tracker or other custom-QA system and would like to generate your own technical manual that is based on the system. This along with the above features make the ODS-Track platform suitable as a <strong>complete platform for the development of new tools,</strong> as well as maintenance and distribution of those tools.</p>
<h3>About ODS Track</h3>
<p>The ODS Track document mangement system is is a document and submission management framework which centralises and automates a large amount of document gathering, filing; reviewing and associated emailing of comments and reminders. On a typical Green Star Design v3 project it has been demonstrated to reduce the administrative burden of several thousands of emails of comments and reminders; automate filing and management of several hundred documents; increase the round 1 result and obtain the rating faster. <em><strong> If you would like to adopt ODS Track on your project then please respond to this email or contact us through our website to set up a company account which will give you unlimited access to the system.</strong></em></p>
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