Checks and flags

What this is for

Every lot is checked all the time. A check looks for things worth a look: a missing photo, a log without a measurement, a volume far from the office's estimate, a load that arrived differently. Each finding is a flag on a tree. A flag is a prompt, not an error.

Where to find it

Open a lot and click the Checks tab. Today also lists every active lot with trees to look at.

The tab shows, from the top:

Trees to look at: the flagged trees, lowest utilization first. Trees without a utilization come last. Use Flag to show one kind only.
The figures: trees and logs, volumes, pieces without a tag, codes on trucks that no bucking backs, loads received differently, and flags by kind. Click a section to open it.
How flags are judged: the rules in force, and who changed them and why.

Click a tree to open its page and see what was recorded.

Utilization

Utilization is the volume recorded for a tree as a share of the office's estimate for it. 100% means it came out exactly as estimated.

The lot average is the average utilization of the lot's measured trees. Until enough trees are measured, it is provisional, and no tree is called low.

Two flags use it:

Flag	Raised when	Often means
Utilization high	The tree is above a set % of its estimate	A diameter or length typed too large
Utilization low	The tree is below a set % of the lot average, once enough trees are measured	A missing log, or a figure typed too small. Or a tree in poor condition: check its tree notes

Set the thresholds

The defaults:

High above (% of the estimate): 125
Low below (% of the lot average): 65
Measured trees before a tree is called low: 30

For the whole organization (owners):

Go to Admin → Settings.
Under What every lot follows, find Utilization flags and click Change.
Keep Set figures on, and type the three figures. To turn utilization flags off, switch Set figures off.
Say Why, and click Save.

For one lot (owners and managers):

Open the lot, then Lot settings.
Change Utilization flags the same way. The lot now uses its own figures.
To make the lot follow the organization again, switch Set figures off.

Each setting shows where its value Comes from: This lot, The organization or Default.

Changing a threshold changes the flags at once, also for trees recorded earlier. Flags are always worked out live against today's rules.

All flags

Flag	Meaning
Utilization high	The recorded volume is well above the estimate
Utilization low	The recorded volume is well below the lot's average
Measurement missing	A log has no length or diameter, so its volume cannot be worked out
No photo	The felling has no photo, though the lot's rules asked for one
Bucked with no felling	The tree was cut into logs, but no felling was recorded
Cutter missing	Nobody from the crew is named as the cutter
Bucker missing	Nobody from the crew is named as the bucker
Saw operator missing	Nobody is named as the saw operator
Code on a truck not backed by a bucking	A log code went onto a truck that no bucking in this lot produced: a typo, or a log from elsewhere
Load received differently	The yard received the load differently from how it was loaded
More untagged pieces shipped than felled	More pieces without a tag went onto trucks than were felled
Sawn with no boards	The tree was finished at the saw, but no boards were recorded
Bucked after reaching the saw	The tree was cut into logs again after it reached the saw
Left open at a saw	The tree was left open when the saw was taken back from its device
Deleted past the daily limit	More trees were deleted in the lot that day than the limit allows
Recorded while the lot was void	Something was recorded for the tree while its lot was void
Recorded around a move to another tree	A device with a slow clock recorded work on a tree whose records had been moved, and the record went with the move. Both trees are flagged. Check which tree the work belongs to
Recorded after the tree left the catalog	A corrected tree list retired the tree, and a device recorded it afterwards. The record is kept. Check the list, or move the records to the right tree

Each flag has an (i) next to it in the console with the same explanation.

What to do with a flag

Open the tree. Look at the felling, the logs and the photos.
If a figure was typed wrong, ask the crew to correct it on the device (Correct on the tree's step).
If a cutter or bucker is missing, fill it in from the console. See Correcting records.
If the record is right (a hollow tree really is small), leave it. The flag stays as a prompt; it does not block anything.

Tips

Which evidence a felling must carry (photo, location, who cut it) is set under Evidence for a felling, for the organization or per lot. No photo and Cutter missing follow it.
Exports include a flags sheet, judged against the rules in force when the file was made. See Exports.