Places
Places, commonly referred to as GeoFences, are areas you can draw on the map, to enclose an area. Places have many uses, and are used in multiple parts of Connect+. Some examples are alerts, reports, fleets, and pool vehicle booking.
How To Create a Place
Navigate to the Map Screen.
In the top right, click "Places".
Select "New"
Enter the required details; Name - This is the name that will be used to choose the place in areas like the reports, fleets, alerts, and pool vehicle booking system. Details - Provide some brief details of this location, this is so someone in your organisation can look at the Place and see what it is describing. Type - This is a drop down choice, and can be one of the following; Base - Typically used for your own offices. Customer - Typically used to denote your clients/customers. General - A general geofence, can be used for anything. Supplier - Typically used to denote your own suppliers. Zone - Typically used if you want to break areas down by Zones. These could be travel zones, off limit areas, etc. Select Override Address if required. If set, in reports this will replace any address inside the zone, with the name of the zone. Typically useful for Bases, Customers, and Suppliers. Offroad - This can be used to run the off road report to find distance travelled "Offroad".
On the mapping screen, your mouse should now look like a small plus symbol. A single click on the map will place the first point of your geofence. Continue to click the corners of where you require the geofence to be located. When you reach the last corner, if you double click, it will automatically join the last point to the first point. You have now drawn your geofence. The screen shot below shows how I have drawn a geofence around 41 Lakeside Cct, with the geofence set to a base.
Click "Save". Your place has now been created and is available for use. If your place doesn't immediately appear visible for use with Fleets, Alerts, Reports, or Pool Vehicle Booking, please try logging out, and then logging back in and make sure the place appears in the list of "Places" in the mapping screen.
Helpful hints for Places
We recommend drawing Places how it has been shown in the above example. Allow the edge of the Place to be slightly larger than the address you want to encompass. It can be important to encloses part of the roadway in many instances. It's important to think about where the driver may actually end up parked when attending the place if you're needing this for a Base, Supplier, or Customer. For example, if parking is scarce at this Place and the driver may need to park further down the road, we recommend extending the Place into a different shape to include more of the road.
If you want to start drawing the place all over again, select "Redraw". This will remove all of the drawing for that Place.
Your Place does not have to be a square or rectangle, you can include as many corners as you would like. We have Places in use that cover over 100km of highways and freeways.
If you have a general shape already drawn, but want to move it around a bit, you can. The solid white bubbles at a corner can be clicked and held, and then dragged, allowing you to move that corner. In the middle between two corners is a lighter bubble that appears under the edge of the Place. Clicking and holding this bubble will turn that into a corners edge, and this can now be dragged around too, to alter the shape. Right clicking any existing corner will delete it, and the Place will make a new edge between the previous and next corner.
You can come back to any saved Place and adjust the Place, whether it be the name, description, or the shape of the place.
If you're using a place for reports or alerts, and you feel the data is wrong. For example you're not getting an alert, or you know a vehicle has been to a specific location but it isn't showing in the report. It's often that you will need to alter the shape of the Place as you have drawn it in a way that the vehicle isn't inside the Place while the Driver is at a specific location.
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