📄️ RapidPlan Online Workspace
Before starting to create plans, we recommend getting to know your way around the workspace. It has been designed to be intuitive, easy to follow and to allow you the maximum available working space to create your traffic plan.
📄️ Canvas Area
The Canvas Area is where your traffic plan is created. When you open a new plan, a Google Maps (satellite view) of your worksite location is displayed on the canvas background. Changing the background (Map provider and view) is discussed later in this Chapter.
📄️ Main Menu
The Main menu contains a number of options to assist plan creation. The image below shows the main tools of the RapidPlan Online menu.
📄️ Toolbar
The Toolbar, located in the top right corner of the RapidPlan Online workspace, contains a small number of buttons available for quick access.
📄️ Palettes
The Palettes are located on the left and right of the Canvas Area. Whole toolbars or specific Palettes can be shown/hidden by toggling the corresponding arrow button as pictured.
📄️ Tools Palette
The Tools palette contains most of the elements required to draw a plan. The tools are separated into three categories, detailed in the Tables below:
📄️ Signs Palette
The sign palette is the repository for each of the signs in RapidPlan Online. Aside from the signs themselves, the signs palette has three main components:
📄️ Scratchpad Palette
The Scratchpad is used to store any object that you commonly use or have manually created. This way they are easily accessible and don't need to be created again.
📄️ Properties Palette
The Properties palette displays all the information pertaining to any selected signs, tools, markers or objects. This is where you can change fonts, colors, lane markers, etc - of a selected object.
📄️ History Palette
The History palette contains the list of changes that you have made on the plan. On the top right of the palette, there are two arrows that represent undo and redo operations.
📄️ Layers Palette
While it is named the Layers Palette in light of its core and original use case, the Layers Palette has now expanded in function to include 3 sub-menus:
📄️ Autosave Feature
Changes made to a plan are saved automatically. The Status Bar located at the top of the page shows the autosave status.