Propeller July 2024

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These notes aren't just a list of updates; they're a treasure map to transformative experiences and cutting-edge functionalities. Stay in the know, and you'll gain a competitive edge, discovering hidden gems that can revolutionize your workflow and solve lingering challenges.

July 2024

Focus on what matters: Hide inactive sites and organize your homepage

You can now group sites on your homepage to keep more organised. Star key sites for easy access, and mark old sites as “inactive” and hide them from your default homepage view.

For example if you have many sites in your portal that relate to one project or a specific region (e.g a city or state) you might group these sites together. These new features are designed to give you the flexibility to organise a homepage to suit your needs.

More specifically you can:

• Group sites together
• Create a new site group
• Move sites into/out of a site group
• Ungroup and delete a site group
• Rename a site group
• Make site inactive or active

You can also star the sites you want to find quickly

Availability

• Available to all customers

Note:

• Organization owners can manage site groups and make sites inactive/active.
• Site groups are visible for any users that have access to a site in that site group.

Take your Propeller workflows to the next level: Introducing the Scale Platform Plan

Our newest plan, the Scale Platform Plan, is now available to all customers.

The Scale Platform Plan brings a set of features that help you optimize GIS workflows, provide seamless integration with your platform(s), and bring a level of data protection.

It’s a plan for those businesses that intensively use Propeller that will scale with Propeller over time.

Specifically, the plan includes the following features:

• Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is a means of serving map layers as cached map tiles, effectively "streaming" tiled imagery or orthophotos from Propeller into your preferred GIS software.
• Read-only Public API - Our API enables teams with developers to design custom integrations with the Propeller platform, including importing new survey files into third-party software.
• Private Workspaces, enabling you to limit access measurements and designs to invited users only.

You are also able to get set up with a Custom Single Sign-On (SSO) set-up, which enables you to integrate your existing authentication systems seamlessly with Propeller.

Check out our Scale Platform Plan page for more details or contact your Account Executive.

Available: For all customers

• Note this plan is also available as Trimble Stratus Scale for Trimble Stratus customers.

More detailed survey status updates in the platform - No more waiting for answers!

This feature upgrade means you now have more details about the status of your surveys being processed.

When looking at the processing status of your recent surveys, you’ll now see when a survey is held up for manual review and/or troubleshooting directly in the platform under Data processing.

You’ll also see any surveys that have been released within 24 hours and any surveys that are still being processed.

For each survey, you will see:

• the processing status
• the site name and when it was submitted
• the name of the survey

Availability

• Available to all customers
• All users with view access for a site can see the processing status.

Some little changes to the Platform that will make a difference

At Propeller, we appreciate the little things. That’s because we know those subtle, quality-of-life changes matter. Starting today you’ll notice small (but important) changes to improve your experience when using the platform:

• The Propeller (or Trimble Stratus) logo now acts as a true ‘home button’ allowing you to navigate back to the Homepage.

• In the top navigation bar, the secondary branding color (found in Organization settings under Branding Detail) is no longer applied to the full bar but will now applied around your company logo only. This transition will aid accessibility by improving the contrast of typography in the platform.

• Portal picker has a slight redesign making it a little more refined.
• The overflow menu is now on the left-hand side and restyled to align to improve the user experience on mobile devices.

Availability

• Available to all customers

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