Jul 23 2011
We made the new GPS Insight Dashboard available last week to customers (in Beta).
Here is the new demo!:
New GPS Insight Dashboard Demo
Click on the image to watch the video and enjoy the new GPS Insight Dashboard. It’s several months of hard work and REALLY good. Enjoy!
Thanks,
Rob.
Apr 16 2011
After loading our “horizontal” interface with 79 distinctly different options (not all are available under every user name), we are FINALLY going to make the interface a little easier to use and more convenient for all.
We should have a beta version available in May. We’ll make sure everyone knows how to get access to use it.
Here is a preview:
Preview of GPS Insight's new Dashboard Interface
Major improvements will include “tabs” at the top which will default to “best practices” dashboards. As always, every dashboard can be configured by the end user, but our new “default” dashboards will be more usable out of the box. Additionally, customers will be able to configure their tabs to their requirements and add as many custom tabs as they want.
Map/Report/Administration menus will flow “downward” rather than horizontally as has been the case with GPS Insight for 6 years now.
Rather than “pull the plug” on existing customers when it’s time to move to this new interface, we will make BOTH available indefinitely. This will ensure you will be able to transition at your own pace. We expect most customers should really appreciate the new interface and at once point we will make it “the default” to try to get wide-spread adoption.
As with other “deprecated” features within GPS Insight, the old dashboard may not support new features when they are released so we encourage everyone to utilize it when it’s released in May.
We look forward to this release, and encourage you to give us any feedback you have to ensure we consider it while completing this major improvement in GPS Insight.
Here is one more screen shot:
Preview of GPS Insight's new Dashboard Interface
Enjoy!
Thanks,
Rob.
Jan 06 2011
We added a new “clock” dashlet to GPS Insight for people who want to see what time it is without having to look at their tiny, typically inaccurate, little Windows time at the bottom right. It inherits your timezone/DST preferences, but you can override them:
New GPS Insight Clock Dashlet
We get our times from the server which is sync’d to an atomic clock so it’s always guaranteed accurate (well, since browsers aren’t always perfect, you can expect it to be within 1-2 seconds at all times):
Here is a picture of the clock on an actual dashboard, next to the “supposed” real time:
New GPS Insight Clock Dashlet
And here is where you find it on the list of available dashlets, under “utility”:
New GPS Insight Clock Dashlet
Sorry we missed getting it out there for your New Years countdowns! Enjoy!
Rob.
Oct 11 2010
Recently (a week ago), we promised a lot of graphs coming, & here are 3 more:
New Speeding Graph and vehicle-centric graphs
The top graph is a histogram of speeding events relative to the speed limit with different colors representing the severity of the speeding.
The bottom graphs show 3 different per-vehicle metrics:
Each different graph dashlet is configurable as to how many lines to show, which graph to show, how many days to show, etc:
Modify each graph dashlet
Each “per-vehicle” graph is also configurable as to which graphs & how long to show, and the vehicle shown is the one most recently clicked upon in the “vehicle picker.”
Here is a screenshot of just how much you can easily depict within your dashboard, and save/call up whenever you want an overview of your groups of vehicles:
Lots of graphs and maps available within GPS Insight's new graphs dashlets
And the new “dashlet group” functionality makes it very quick to set up dashboards like this instantly.
Enjoy!
Rob.
Sep 20 2010
We announced it 10 days ago, and now it’s available to our customers in production:
New GPS Insight Graphs
A new set of 3 graphs are available (for starters). We plan to rapidly release many more, to include begin/end of day, speeding, then a wasted miles graph which will show you which of your drivers are driving aimlessly, wasting miles.
There are too many things to detail in this blog post, and the dashboard has changed significantly with the new “vehicle picker” so watch this movie for a quick 6 minute overview!
All graphs are now available for free to GPS Insight customers.
Thanks,
Rob.
Feb 18 2010
Recently a prospective customer asked us to add a “half-height” map. We did that within a few days (as well as a 2x, 3x height map).
When using it though, I thought it took too long to use the menus to choose the right vehicle, etc.
I decided it would be really convenient to allow the user to “tear off” a vehicle from a location, alert, etc. dashlet.
Now you can just drag & drop ANY VEHICLE from any dashlet onto the dashboard to create an instant half-height “follow this vehicle” map:
Drag a vehicle to instantly create a half-height "follow this vehicle" map
As soon as you drop the “map” icon which is displayed, that vehicle is now displaying in a map which follows it, and shows all of the vehicles from the group associated with the dashlet you dragged it from (this was a complaint from the prospective customer about their current vendor — this type of map only showed the single vehicle):
Instantly create 5 maps just by dragging 5 vehicles to the dashboard
We let you show up to 8 maps per dashboard window. This took me 2 seconds per moving vehicle to create these maps using this new capability. We will start allowing other drag & drop capabilities on the dashboard now that we’ve started to use this type of functionality.
Really convenient! Remember, if you want to keep this particular layout, you need to save it or save as in the hierarchy save tools:
Save your Hierarchy Changes!
As usual, if you have any tips or requests for new capabilities or ideas, please let us know!
Thanks,
Rob.
Jan 23 2010
We have been busy this month and released several new features to the dashboard (as well as posted speed limit reports/graphs which I will talk about separately).
First, there are new dashboard layouts, and they are more intuitively labeled:
Intuitive dashboard styles
Choosing “2 wide L” will give you a wider column on the left and a thinner column on the right. Choosing “4 wide” will give you 4 columns. These various layouts are useful depending on what type of style you like for your dashboard setup.
As always, after making changes, make sure to save your dashboard settings!
Next, we have added the ability to send routes to Garmins from the Route Dashlet.
After optimizing a route with the route dashlet (and optional feature), just choose a Garmin-integrated vehicle and click on send — the optimized route is sent instantly to that Garmin:
Send a full optimized route to a Garmin
Send a full optimized route to a Garmin
Last, we made our “closest to” dashlet more useful by adding both drive distance and drive time, in addition to the “crow flies” distance which is all we previously supported. You can sort by any of the columns, choose your vehicle, and click on the “dispatch” button if you are using Garmin integration:
Closest To Dashlet includes drive distance/time now
And for users of the dashboard map book tool which turns an address into a map book page/grid coordinate, you can now “sanity check” the location by clicking on “Map Address” — it will pull up a convenient map for you to make sure you typed it correctly & have a reasonable address:
Sanity check your mapbook addresses now in the dashlet
And another recent dashlet worth mentioning again — the legend. Now you can have a convenient reference to what the various colors and vehicle icon shapes mean:
GPS Insight map legend
Thanks for using these new capabilities and we appreciate your feedback which has led to their creation.
Click for more information on our GPS Vehicle Tracking Functionality.
Rob.
