Q3 2018 Updates

What's New? - Sidebar Search box to filter schematic elements - Save/Error status messages with improved schematic element highlighting - New Visual category added to side bar that includes a text box schematic element - New Format Panel which includes advance features - Diagram panel to easily change page options (grid, guides, page view, paper size) - Style panel to change the borders of delineators/text boxes and enable Line jumps for flow lines - Text panel to edit text ...

Not In Service Periods for Equipment You can now specify Not In Service Periods for equipment in MBO. Navigate to a piece of equipment to view, add or edit not in service periods. If your company is using our Scheduling feature you can also specify if the recurring schedule per activity type should be paused while the equipment is not in service. This will adjust the schedule everywhere in the system. You also have the option to allow an activity to be recorded during a not in service p...

Sidebar and Toolbar Changes Sidebar Search Schematic Elements New Search box added to the Sidebar to search schematic elements. Example search for 'wellheads' to list all wellheads or 'well gas' to list all gas wellheads. Visual Schematic Elements At the bottom of the Sidebar is a new category called Visual where we've moved the existing Compass Rose and Direction of Flow elements and also added a new Text box element. Toolbar Visual changes made to the toolbar: grouping ...

Better Messages and Error Handling After successfully saving a schematic, a green Last Saved date stamped message will appear above the toolbar. If any schematic changes occur after a schematic has been saved, a red Unsaved Changes message will appear above the toolbar. If an error occurs when trying to save a schematic, a red Error Saving date stamped message will appear above the toolbar. If the saving error was caused by a piece of equipment, an additional message will appear displa...

Format Panel The Format Panel consists of a bunch of advance and handy features made more accessible to use when building a schematic. The Format Panel is found on the righthand side of the schematic editor area. If you don't see it, there are a few ways to toggle the Format Panel; from the new View toolbar dropdown button, from the View menu dropdown, or with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P). The Format Panel's options change depending on what schematic element(s) you have selected or ...

Line Jumps Line jumps is an advance schematic feature which gives a visual cue at the intersection of where two lines meet. There are 3 types of line jumps as illustrated in the above image: Arc, Gap, and Sharp; the default is none. To enable Line jumps select your Flow line(s) or select all Flow lines by right-clicking on the schematic and selecting Select Flow Lines from the menu. Navigate to the Style panel in the Format Panel and select the Line jump type from the dropdown. You can incr...