Public report template and a tidier map

We published a freely accessible demo version of the Report Builder, the tool you use to create the platform's environmental reports. It is the Nature & Climate template: a page you can open and try out without having to log in with your account. The template comes already filled with sample data, so you immediately see what a finished report looks like, with biodiversity indicators, satellite maps and descriptive texts. You can move and reorder the blocks by dragging them, edit the texts and explore all the available sections, exactly as in the full version. When you are happy with it you can also export the result to PDF, always starting from the sample data. The page opens in a clean full-screen view, without the site's navigation menu and without the bar at the bottom of the page, so you can focus only on the report. A notice at the top reminds you that you are working on sample data and invites you to log in or sign up to fill the report with the real data of one of your sites. It is the simplest way to understand what the Report Builder can do even before connecting your sites, ideal to show to colleagues and managers.

We enriched the Report Builder, the tool you use to create environmental reports, with a new way to choose and organize templates. When you start creating a report, you can now decide whether to begin from a template valid for the whole platform or from a template tied to a specific site. Platform templates are the general ones, which you can reuse on any site, while site templates are designed and saved for one precise place. To help you find your way, the template library has been reorganized into clearly separated groups, so you immediately find what you need without scrolling through long lists. If you select a template tied to a site different from the one you are working on, a clear warning points it out, so you avoid using an unsuitable template by mistake. This improvement saves you time and makes managing reports much tidier when you follow many different sites. To try it go to XNatura → Monitoring → Site → Report and start creating a new report: in the template picker you will find the groups dedicated to the platform and to the site, together with the possible warning. We recommend saving the templates you reuse most often as platform templates, so they are always at hand on every site.

We refined the behavior of the sites shared by other companies, recently introduced in the platform. The first improvement concerns the info popup: before, in some tabs of the map, for example the adopted-sites one, clicking on a shared site could fail to open the popup; now it opens correctly in every tab. The second improvement concerns the links: when you open the page of a shared site you now always stay inside your own personal area, with your menus and your settings, instead of finding yourself in an environment different from the usual one. This way the navigation stays familiar and consistent, and you can move between your sites and the shared ones without ever losing the thread. These refinements make the collaboration between companies smoother and free of surprises, from the map all the way to the detail page. The fixes are already active automatically and require no action on your part. To check them go to XNatura → Monitoring → Map, move between the different tabs and click on a shared site: the popup will always open and the links will take you to the right pages. If your organization has no shared sites yet, everything will keep working exactly as before.

We redesigned the toolbar of the Monitoring map, gathering all the controls in a single group with a dark, semi-transparent style. The site search, the filters and the new All/My switch now live in the same visual block, with the same style, the same borders and the same spacing. Before, the various controls looked slightly different from one another and could blend into the map background, especially over lighter areas such as sunlit fields or urban zones. The new dark style instead guarantees excellent readability on any background, from satellite imagery to street maps. The result is a cleaner and more professional map, where you find all the commands in one place without having to look around. You do not have to do anything to activate the change: the renewed toolbar is already available to all users. To see it go to XNatura → Monitoring → Map and look at the controls grouped above the map: search, filters and switches are now a single family. Try using them in sequence, for example searching for a site and then filtering the view, to appreciate how much smoother the workflow has become.

We recently introduced sites shared by other companies, which you can view in read-only mode directly from the platform. On these sites you do not have editing permissions, because they belong to another organization that shared them with you. Until now, however, some editing buttons and commands still remained visible even if you could not use them, a situation that could cause confusion. With this update we automatically hid all the editing commands when you open a read-only shared site. You will no longer see, for example, the buttons to correct the position of the surveys, to generate new map layers or to change the site settings. This way the interface stays clean and consistent with what you can actually do: consult the data with peace of mind, without the risk of starting actions that are not allowed. On your own sites, instead, all the editing commands remain available exactly as before, with no difference at all. The change is already active automatically and requires no configuration: you just need to open a shared site to notice the tidier experience.