Draw Polygon to Select Activities

When you enable the Scheduling Layer, you’ll see a new Lasso icon on the Route Map page.

This icon helps you switch to ‘draw’ mode, where you can select activities on the Scheduling Layer. You can select all the activities within a drawn enclosed shape and all the selected activities are displayed in the activity panel. You can add the selected activities to your route.

How to select activities?

Follow the steps below to select activities:

  1. Click the Lasso icon to switch to drawing mode.

    A message Outline area to select activities is displayed on top of the map.

  2. Draw an enclosed shape in the Scheduling layer.

    This screenshot shows the message displayed on the page when you click the Lasso icon.
    Select the listed activities and assign them to your route. Click Assign.

    This figure shows the list of selected activities which you have selected by drawing a polygon.
  3. To cancel the drawing mode, you must close the message hint or zoom the map in or out.
Note: The drawing functionality is available in online mode only.

Show Selected Activities on the Dispatch Map

When you select multiple activities on the Dispatch map (by drawing polygon or selecting clustered activity), the selected activities appear on the right panel on the map. When marking one or several activities in the panel, the top panel displays the number and total duration of the marked activities. To assign them to other resources:
  • Drag the marked activities to a resource from the tree.

  • Click Click on the Move action at the top of the panel and move the activities.

In the panel, the activities are listed according their priority (Urgent, Under risk, Other). The activities appear on the map with different markers - bubbles.

Show identifiers on the route map

When you select multiple activities on the Route map (by drawing polygon or selecting clustered activity), the panel displays activity marker and activity identifier for the activities.