We're excited to announce a new feature that will help you declutter and optimize your Public Works workflow: service rule archiving! This new functionality allows you to archive past or irrelevant service rules, keeping your workflow organized and improving database performance.

Many customers create new rules each season due to changes in their routes, and create additional rules for non-winter services such as street sweepers. Over time, this can lead to a long list of active rules, making it difficult to find the ones you need. Archiving past or unused rules will help you:

• Reduce Clutter: Keep your database organized and easy to navigate.
• Improve Performance: Archived rules no longer generate exceptions, reducing database storage and server load to process rules.
• Streamline Management: Easily find and manage active rules, improving efficiency.

The new Public Works Admin page will be available under the Public Works menu in MyGeotab. From there, you can:

• List and Filter Rules: View all existing service rules, filter by status (active/archived), and search by rule name.
• Archive and Activate Rules: Archive individual rules or multiple rules in bulk. You can also easily restore archived rules by activating them again.
• Toggle Between Active and Archived Rules: Easily switch between active and archived rules in historical views.

✱ NOTE: Archiving a rule does not delete its historical data. All historical data will remain available, but no new exceptions will be generated for archived rules.