Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Reporting Options Added to Staff Web Pages

We have added some basic reporting options to the Staff web sites. From the main web page you can choose the "Reports" option to move to a page that will offer reports for the Building, Zoning, Violations and Housing databases. More databases will be added later. The report screens function somewhat similar to what you are used to in the Windows interface but do not have near as many options. You can select a Date field and date range that determine which records are included. Each screen has a "Basic" and "Summary" report option. We can add more report choices as the need presents itself. When you print the pages, portions of the screen are hidden so that the reports look like reports instead of screen prints. Give it a try and give us some feedback.

Upgraded Google Maps in Staff Web Pages

Each ZP SQL customers Staff web site now uses upgraded Google maps in most instances. The primary advantage is that now the Street View option is available for these maps. If you have not used this feature before, you'll see a little person icon in the upper right corner. You can drag that icon onto a street that the Google team has photographed and see pictures of all the buildings around you. You can move around in the interface and see a 360 degree photographic representation of the street. It's pretty cool. Of course, not every area has been photographed yet so your results will vary accordingly.