Each built-in CalAmp K-12 Dashboard is designed to provide key information about a specific aspect of your fleet management in an at-a-glance view with various types of charts, grids, and links to the underlying reports. This article describes the CA Dashboard, which provides details about the Comparative Analysis module.
Note: To see how to view the Dashboards and for details about all of the prebuilt ones, go to Viewing a Dashboard.
Of course, your organization must have the CA module in order to have the CA Dashboard and data in it.
To examine the CA Dashboard, follow these steps:
- Click
>> Dashboards.
The Dashboards screen will appear.
By default, Favorite Dashboards will be selected. (For details on adding a Dashboard as a bookmark, go to Adding a Dashboard As a Favorite.)
- Click Synovia Dashboards.
All the Dashboards will appear in a list on the right.
- Click CA — the actual "CA" text, not elsewhere in the row.
The CA Dashboard will appear.
Here is a description of each of its tiles:
- Last Night Import Data vs. 7 Days: Shows how many routes, schools, and students were pulled in with last night's import of data from your route planning system and with the import from a week ago. The final column's value is the difference between the two; a positive value indicates how many have been added; for example, in the figure below, 14 routes were added within the last week. A negative value in the Change column means that some have been subtracted, such as the Schools value below, which shows that one school was deleted over the course of the last week.
- Schools Without Zones Drawn: Displays the count of schools that need to have their geofences (zones) drawn in System Administration >> Locations. (See Adding a Location; step 8 is where adding a geofence begins.)
Note: You must have zones drawn for all your School locations; otherwise, you won't get the Comparative Analysis data for Planned vs. Actual (PvA) that will allow you to compare actual school drop-off and pickup times with planned ones.
This tile might also return any duplicate School locations mistakenly added by your route planning system. For example, if the route planner added a new school (with a new ID) because it was renamed instead of updating the current school (using its ID), during the import, it would be added as a new school without a zone drawn. (If the route planner creates a new location, you have to run a partial import and remap the existing location in CalAmp K-12 to the new one on their side. See Running a Partial Snapshot Import and Performing Entity Mapping.)
The underlying report for Schools Without Zones Drawn (which you access by clicking
at the tile's top right) lists the schools missing their geofences, plus their ID number according to your route planning system.
- Daily Substitutions Count over Last 30 Days: A chart with the number of vehicle substitutions entered each day as the y-axis and dates over the last month as the x-axis; the yellow line shows the average substitution count for a weekday (figured for the month) so that you can visually compare the actual substitution counts with what your fleet generally does.
The background report for Daily Substitutions Count over Last 30 Days (which you access by clicking at the tile's top right) lists the dates substitutions were made (with the most recent on top) over the last month and the number entered each day.
- CA Import Success Rate Last 30 Days: A radial gauge showing the percentage of days the nightly import of data from your route planning system was successful over the last month. The black line is the actual percentage value for your fleet; the colors offer a visual comparison of percent numbers (red for fewer than 80%, yellow for 80% to 89%, and green for 90% to 100%).
The report for CA Import Success Rate Last 30 Days (which you access by clicking at the tile's top right) lists the start date/time, server end date/time, and client end date/time (with the most recent on top) of the full nightly imports over the last month and the resulting status each day (such as Success or Failure).
- Latest CA Import Status: Presents the status of last night's import of data from your route planning system (such as Success or Failure).
The underlying report for Latest CA Import Status (which you access by clicking at the tile's top right) displays the start date/time, server end date/time, and client end date/time of the most-recent full nightly import and the resulting status (such as Success or Failure).
- Tier Start Success Rate: Displays the percentage of tiers that successfully started yesterday — in other words, those whose drivers correctly performed the event you use for starting your tiers. In this radial gauge, the black line represents the percentage value of successful tier starts. The colors are like those of the CA Import Success Rate Last 30 Days tile: red for fewer than 80%, yellow for 80% to 89%, and green for 90% to 100%.
Tier Start Success Rate's report (which you access by clicking at the tile's top right) lists all the tiers that were supposed to start yesterday (alphabetically by tier name), their primary group, the vehicle name/number, its ESN (electronic serial number), the planned start times for the tiers, and whether or not each tier was successfully reported as having started (with a value of Y or N in the Started? column).
Warning: If the Tier Start Success Rate widget doesn't have a high percentage value (above 90%), this may indicate a training issue — with perhaps drivers not performing the correct steps to indicate the tier start. Without that, you won't have CA data — or more specifically, PvA data. The number one reason a tier won't be registered as having started is that the substitution wasn't entered (either on the MDT or in the office using CalAmp K-12). Other issues are the driver beginning the run outside of the prescribed time window for its start or the stop event (such as Entrance Door Open or Stop Arm Open) not being correctly performed. - Invalid ESN Assignment: Shows the number of today's tiers whose assigned vehicle does not have a valid ESN associated with it in CalAmp K-12.
Warning: If this tile returns any count higher than 0, it's cause for immediate action. Buses must have a correct ESN entered for even Core CalAmp K-12 functionality such as Fleet Tracking to work — much less CA features such as PvA. (See Adding a Vehicle's ESN for details.)
The background report for Invalid ESN Assignment (which you access by clicking at the tile's top right) lists all the tiers from today with vehicles that don't have a valid ESN assigned in CalAmp K-12 by itinerary, route, tier, primary group, vehicle name/number, and ESN. (The ESN column will largely be empty, but if an incorrect one is assigned to the vehicle [such as 1234], it will appear there.)
- Duplicated Vehicles: Shows the number of duplicate vehicles in CalAmp K-12 for your fleet.
The Duplicated Vehicles report (which you access by clicking at the tile's top right) lists the duplicates by primary group, vehicle name/number, ESN, date and time the vehicle last reported to CalAmp K-12, and whether the bus was added by a user of the CalAmp K-12 site or through your route planning system (with values of "Silverlining" or "Routing System," respectively).
Note: If the duplicate vehicles were introduced during the nightly import of your data, you can merge them back into one entity by following the steps at Merging Duplicate Vehicles.
- Last Night Import Data vs. 7 Days: Shows how many routes, schools, and students were pulled in with last night's import of data from your route planning system and with the import from a week ago. The final column's value is the difference between the two; a positive value indicates how many have been added; for example, in the figure below, 14 routes were added within the last week. A negative value in the Change column means that some have been subtracted, such as the Schools value below, which shows that one school was deleted over the course of the last week.
- You can click Refresh Now at the top left of the CA Dashboard to reload its data.
Note: To the right of the Refresh Now button is the date and time of the most recent data refresh (the "Last Refresh" value), and to the right of that is when the next refresh is planned (the "Next Scheduled Refresh" value).
You can click Schedule Refresh at the top left to change when the data will be refreshed (daily, weekly, or monthly and at a time of your choosing).
- You can click
at the top right of the screen to export all the Dashboard's tiles to a PDF.
At the top right of each tile (in addition to, which opens the report that provides the tile's data), you'll have these options:
: Removes the tile from the Dashboard (after you confirm the deletion).
: Launches the Tile Properties window, in which you can rename the tile and select a different report to base the results off of.
: Opens the settings for the tile, in which you can redefine its layout, change its component data, and change the formatting, such as the color that represents certain values.