User Group Meeting
5th March 2008
Presentation by Gary Armstrong & Vicki Hook
• Introduction
• WasteDataFlow progress to date
• New WasteDataFlow Factsheet
• 2006 / 2007 Development Review
• Development Plan 2007/2008
• Open Floor
Comparison of timeliness of returns
Q1 & Q2 deadline
Q3 deadline
Q4 deadline
100%
Q1 05/06
80%
Q2 05/06
Q3 05/06
Q4 05/06
60%
Q1 deadline
40%
20%
Q2 deadline
Q3 deadline
Q4 deadline
100%
Q1 06/07
80%
Q2 06/07
Q3 06/07
Q4 06/07
60%
0%
Jul-05 Aug-05 Sep-05 Oct-05 Nov-05 Dec-05 Jan-06 Feb-06 Mar-06 Apr-06 May-06 Jun-06 Jul-06 Aug-06
40%
20%
0%
Jul-06 Aug-06 Sep-06 Oct-06 Nov-06 Dec-06 Jan-07 Feb-07 Mar-07 Apr-07 May-07 Jun-07 Jul-07 Aug-07
Factsheet: Validation Process
• Why required?
• Overview
• Feedback?
2006/7 Development review
• Large list of items for development
• Built up into specifications
• Specifications prioritised by
– England user group
– WDF Operational group
• Developed and delivered through the year
2006/7 Development review
• Question navigation and status page
• New reporting system
– giving Excel output
– Unlimited benchmarking
• Advanced reporting to support data authorisation
– Mass Balance Report
– On-line status reports
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Email on quarterly Roll Up and Authorisation
Queued processing of data roll-ups
Block Negative numbers on data-entry
Ability to give questions a start and end date
Review of Questions
System maintenance
Development Screen Shots
Development Screen Shots
2007/8 Development Plan
First Phase
• More Excel based benchmarking reports complete
• Pre authorisation validation checks page – in
finalisation
• Auto upload of data
– For fixed questions end of January 2008
– For variable length (destination/district) questions
to come in March
• Selection list update process to go quarterly –
working on cleaner data file from EA.
2008 Development Plan
Second Phase
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CSV Generation
Destination Lists
Help System
Interface Improvements
New Report
Question Review
Reports Generation
Roll-up Process
XML upload
CSV Generation
• Make the CSV generation process
same as reports process with
associated options.
• Give CSV format options, eg. include
blanks, include comments.
Destination List
• Make destination lists associated with a
question filter to only show destinations
of the appropriate type.
• Give user search access to all fields
held on a destination facility when
picking destination to report on.to go on
list, eg licence number.
Help System
• Make sure ? Help is up to date
• Ongoing task – New help menu
Interface Improvements
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"Authorisation screen:
– Allow list of actions to be ordered by the columns (period, authority, level)
– Keep position in list/options when going to and from the screen.
– Set default order to have most recent at top"
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Make the user and authority management screens easier to use
Make system request user to log-on and then show you the menus you
can use
Remove the 'unused' periods from the roll-up screen
Create a screen where the calculated c-vars for an authority can be
seen and a comment field that would appear on reports
Enable reject from level 50 after 'x' months
Add back the asterix to the questions drop down to show complete
Ongoing task - to set up a screen at rollup that shows c-var values prior
to actual approval
New Report
• Have the Mass Balance as a report in
the reports screen
• Have a set of reports based on a Waste
Destination.
• Make a report that outputs in the XML
upload format
• Ongoing task - to create a set of c-vars
for use in Scottish reports
Question Review
• When data is loaded from previous period the
previous period notes are appended to any already in
the current period
• Make sure load comments/data is correct on each
question
• Add a comment field to each row of a question
• Where questions use/request population/household
etc figures, show those figures on the question page.
• Ongoing task - to standardise wording on destination
questions
• Ongoing task - to change to allow qu16 and part of
qu23 to accept data by CA site rather than WCA/total
Question Review (cont)
• Give option for more than one disposal destinations for waste
type.
• Change qu19/35 to allow a destination to be selected under a
material rather than having all materials showing
• Add total/subtotals to qu19/35 by material
• "Add more materials to the existing list of 32 materials, eg tyres,
foodwaste.(note this will not affect LATS biodegradability)"
• Make it compulsory to enter a destination to any reject tonnage
entered in qu19/35
• When data is loaded from previous period the previous period
notes are appended to any already in the current period
Reports Generation
• Predefined groupings of authorities based on
the authority eg family, partnerships
• Sort options on the excel output
• Tidy up the reports screen to give options
panels ability to be open/closed
• Add more authority data to reports, eg region,
type.
• Give user search access to all fields held on a
destination facility when picking destination to
report on, eg licence number.
Reports Generation (cont)
• Make sure report headings are correct
• Bring the basic (question layout) reports into the
excel system. (we have the possible layout with the
xml generator)
• Be able to limit the data in a report by the level of the
data rather than the level of the user.
• Configure reporting system to include automatic
subtotals by some chosen element of the report, eg
material, destination, authority grouping.
• Add more information about a c-var to the c-var tab
• Ongoing task – to ensure the current destination
reports for EA are okay.
Roll-up Process
• Make roll up process a little quicker and
conserve space
• Change the textual labels of the c-vars
• Create a monthly dataset based on the
entered months that can be used with all
reports
• Create an annual dataset based on the four
quarters that can be used with all reports
• Ongoing task – to ensure c-vars/m-vars are
reliably calculated at rollup
XML Upload
• Ongoing task - to add developer page
• Ongoing task - to add destination type
questions
Open Floor
• Any questions on the presentation?