1. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? MoFR Information Management Group March 2007 Module 12 – RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? 1

2. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? History: Where did the new features come from? New and improved features Future: Next Steps Agenda Learning Objectives –Highlight the new and/or improved features that are included in the latest release of RESULTS –Give users an understanding of how they will work with the new features 2

3. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? History Process began in July 2005 Process began in Early 2006 Followed by User Acceptance Testing in 2007 RESULTS 3.0 was deployed on Mar 17, 2007 Emergency Fixes to 3.0 3

4. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Enhancements made to the following components –Opening Definition Submissions –Disturbance Submissions –Silviculture Activity Submissions –Forest Cover Submissions –Milestone Submissions –Amendments –Standard Regimes (SSIDs) –BGC Site Series –Authority Levels –Notifications –Silviculture Activity Planning –Project Management 4

5. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Opening Definition/RESULTS301 Opening Inquiry Screen –Previous Stand Information – NOW REQUIRED Business Case –MoFR needs a pre-harvest record of the stand for comparison purposes in the future (e.g. data used for measuring things like species shift, or changes in site productivity 5

6. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Disturbance/RESULTS316 Disturbance Results Screen –Added ‘Disturbance Complete’ check box Business Case –Allows for identifying completed harvesting activities and completion of harvest on entire opening –To be checked when harvesting on entire opening is complete Checking the box will trigger automated cut block status change to LC (FTA) Requires Disturbance End Date if checked Known issues –Appears that there is an issue with Disturbance area being displayed on RESULTS315/316 if dates are missing 6

7. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Disturbance/RESULTS316 Disturbance Results Screen –Added rule enforcing existence of at least one Disturbance record if Forest Cover Exists Business Case –This rule was designed to ensure that disturbance records exist for openings, and the disturbance record would not be removed without a replacement When Forest Cover exists there must be at least one disturbance record Known issues –In order to delete an incorrect disturbance and replace it with the correct disturbance, users must first add the new, correct disturbance, and then delete the incorrect disturbance record. 7

8. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Silviculture Activity/RESULTS317 Silviculture Screen –Relax edit rules around Treatment areas for Certain Activities Business Case –There was a need to simplify the reporting for activities that could span multiple openings Activities impacted: PC (Pest Control), SU (Survey), FE (Fertilization) Area for treatments listed above may exceed 125% of opening gross area Edit rule still applies to remaining silviculture treatments: Activity Treatment Unit (ATU) areas must be with 125% of opening gross area 1

9. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Forest Cover/RESULTS320/321/328 Forest Cover Screens –New Edit Rules Business Case –New forest cover edit rules added to help ensure FC data being submitted as per the legislated requirements At least one forest cover polygon is required before a milestone declaration can be made (e.g. post-harvest, regen delay, free growing, and no regen) A disturbance record must exist for an opening before a forest cover submission is accepted IMM and NSR FC Poly’s must link to a standard unit (SU) through attribute in FC, or spatially –Emergency fix – not applicable to Reserve Polygons 8

10. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Milestone Declaration/RESULTS325 Milestones Screens –Free Growing Milestones can be now declared even when Early Free Growing offset field is blank Business Case –This rule is especially focused on Openings that were previously managed with Silviculture Prescriptions, and have been brought under an FSP (which may not specify early FG offsets) under section 195(5) –SUs cannot be declared unless there is a forest cover polygon present Business Case –This rule helps ensure that FC is submitted as required 9

11. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Opening Definition Amendments to Silv Pres –In XML submissions minimum height is now optional for Silv Prescription openings with approval dates prior to 1994-04-01 (RESULTS on- line already supported this) Business Case –Need to make XML submissions consistent with online functionality This is for stocking standards only 10

12. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements ESF Amendments/RESULTS312 Amendments –Tree height will not be mandatory for Layer 1, 2, 3 for ESF Silv Pres Amendment Submissions Business Case –This rule brings SSIDs in line with similar rules already in affect for stocking standards for Silv Pres This was already in place in RESULTS –Addition of Submission Date Field for Silv Pres Amendments Business Case –The addition of the amendment submission date will allow for measuring how quickly/slowly amendments are processed 11

13. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements ESF Amendments/RESULTS312 Amendments and Site Plan Amendments –Silviculture Prescription Amendments and Site Plan Amendments can now add/update Stocking Standards IDs after the Regen Milestone has been declared. Business Case –This rule allows for amendments to occur after the regen milestone has been achieved Known issues –The Regen Due Offset will be locked down and unchanged –The BEC information will not be overwritten by the application of the SSID, but it can be changed manually 12

14. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements RESULTS505 Standards Proposal Screens –Tree height will not be mandatory for Layer 1, 2, 3 Business Case –This rule brings SSIDs in lines with similar rules already in affect for stocking standards for Silv Pres: SUs cannot be declared unless there is a forest cover polygon present 13

15. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements RESULTS505 Standards Proposal Screen –Standards Proposals will now allow up to 5 supporting attachments Business Case –Allows for providing rationale for specific stocking standard regime proposals. –Standards Proposals will now allow a single stocking standard regime to be associated with multiple Organization Units (i.e. Districts) and Multiple clients Business Case –This supports the multi-Licensee, multi-District FSPs that are being established around the province 14

16. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements 15

17. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements RESULTS205 Stocking Standard Proposal –New Edit Button Business Case –Allows for corrections to stocking standard regimes (SSIDs) Only available to users with System Admin Authority Level Known issues –Any corrections made will not be applied retroactively, but a list of affected SUs will be provided. 16

18. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Various Screens/XML –Biogeoclimatic Site Series expanded to 4 characters Business Case –This was required to support numerous districts and MoFR Research Branch which have site series codes longer than two characters. 17

19. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements RESULTS515 District Options Screen –New screen that allows each district to manage the auto-generate opening numbers option, and the district email contact Business Case –Providing access to these features directly to the district offices will allow the district to respond faster and have more control over operations in their district Must have RESULTS Approval or RESULTS Admin Authority access. 18

20. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Two new Authority Levels added to support 3.0 –RESULTS Project For viewing and maintaining silviculture activity projects Business Case –Allows for activity project management Was designed mainly for MoFR NRFLs and FFT See RESULTS Activity Planning and Completion Course for more details –RESULTS Preview For viewing and recommending approve/not approve to a Statutory Decision Maker (SDM) Business Case –Allows for more transparent review/approval process Only for IDIR account holders 19

21. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Notifications –Clarification re when email notifications will be sent Business Case –There may have been some confusion as to when email notifications were and were not sent to the submitter and MoFR. Notifications have been addressed in 3.0 20

22. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements TASKActionLicenseeDistrictRegionHQMISCComments Data EntryInsert Accept/RejectOnly for ESF Submissions Silv Pres Amendment Submission PreviewLicensee will receive an email if Previewer rejects application Approve/not Approve Deletion Silviculture Correction and Minor Amendment or Site Plan Amendment and Approved variation SubmissionOnly for ESF Submissions 21

23. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements TASKActionLicenseeDistrictRegionHQMISCComments Stocking Standard Regime Submission PreviewLicensee will receive an email if Previewer rejects application Approve/not Approve Deletion FRPA 108Submission PreviewLicensee will receive an email if Previewer rejects application Approve/not ApproveMisc = FPB – approval granted Deletion Opening Amalgamation Submission PreviewLicensee will receive an email if Previewer rejects application Approve/not Approve Opening Removal Notify LicenseeIf Licensee has obligation they will be notified upon removal Notify ILLRMisc = ILLR will be notified 22

24. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Enhanced Activity Planning –Allows for the application of Treatment regimes to openings Business Case –Allows for faster activity scheduling Was designed mainly for MoFR NRFLs and FFT See RESULTS Activity Planning and Completion Course for more details 23

25. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? Updates and Enhancements Project Management –Allows for the creation and maintenance of silviculture activity projects in RESULTS Business Case –Allows for activity project planning, budgeting and progress reporting Was designed mainly for MoFR NRFLs and FFT Provides basis for schedule B creation See RESULTS Managing Silviculture Activity Projects Course for more details Know Issues –Presently only available to IDIR account holders –All projects accessible to all with access 24

26. What’s New? RESULTS Training RESULTS 3.0 What’s New? History You are here in the development cycle of RESULTS 4.0 25