| Developments
and enhancements (Please e-mail any comments or suggestions
for new or urgent developments to: forestvision@mtsl.co.nz) |
Approx.
Completion Date |
|
Short
Term
|
| Extending
calculations to include automatic iteration: Extension of
user-defined equations and calculated report fields to include
capabililty to automatically refer to (and summarize) numeric
fields in data nodes above and below the selected data node. |
Completed |
| Contractor
Payment Tracking: Extending ForestVision contractor (and
contractor payment) tracking and reporting to requirements specified
by current users, including defining new reports for payment
and contract completion tracking. |
Completed |
|
User
Security: Upgrading existing user security profiles to
include individual security settings that will allow the administrator
to customize user access and actions within specific ForestVision
fields.
|
Completed |
| New
reporting capabilities: Refinement of current user-defined
(and pre-defined) reporting capabilities to enhance report alignment
and upgrading automatic report maps (higher detail). Define
new (and upgrade old) reports including the new capabilities,
and make the new reports available (download from this site). |
Completed |
| Support
for import data formats: Upgrading of TFM2 and FMS import
routines to include resolving user-definable elements 'patches'
within the TFM2 database. |
Part
Completed |
| Save
Anywhere: The database access routines should be extended
to allow users to switch to any kind of database server, including
Oracle / Sybase / Interbase and non-server database types like
Paradox / Access / Dbase. Current functionality will be reused
to allow multiple database sets to be stored in single databases. |
10
Feb 2001 |
| Extending
set of tutorials: Completing 34 tutorials covering introduction
to all main parts of ForestVision, including some dealing with
more advanced concepts. |
15 Feb 2000 |
| Support
for individual clients/business practices/functions through
integrated scripting: Integrated scripting (Visual Basic,
C++, Pascal, Perl) will allow MTS to quickly distribute scripts
customized for any business, or general scripts distributed
to all clients. Scripts will perform anything from simple tasks
like automatically calculating and verifying operational assessment
data, to very complex tasks like applying management schedules
and optimizing harvest operations. Additionally, the script
editor will be accessible for Enterprise Edition version clients
to allow them to write their own scripts for any purpose. The
powerfull nature of scripts requires scripts to be included
in users' security profiles, allowing the adminstrator to make
scripts available (or not) for each individual user. |
31
Jan 2001 |
| Log
Tracking: Extending ForestVision log tracking and reporting
to requirements specified by current users, including defining
new reports and tools to facilitate easy and flexible tracking
of log sales. |
15
Mar 2001 |
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|
Medium
Term
|
| Growth
and Yield Modeling: Applying simple user-definable (and
pre-defined) growth models to existing stands (and forests)
to determine future volume and grade yields. Yield modeling
will also be available through report elements. |
Apr
2001 |
|
Integrated
analysis and reporting on MARVL data: MARVL data can currently
be included as assessment data within ForestVision operations.
Integrated analysis capability will be developed (already
started) to automatically analyze and report on MARVL data
from within ForestVision (without the need to run the MARVL
application).
|
May
2001 |
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|
Long
Term
|
| Harvest
and siviculture scheduling: Initial focus is to provide
harvest and silviculture scheduling through automated scripts,
which can be individualized by MTS for each client or by the
clients themselves (Enterprise edition). The current operation
Status field would assist in the scheduling routines
ability to reschedule operation dates. Current (and future)
reports will be used as the mechanism for analysing the applied
schedules. |
Third
quarter 2001 |
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