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Creating and Uploading Cloud Plans

RapidPath now features incorporated cloud functionality, allowing you to:

  • Store your library of plans securely, and access them from anywhere.
  • Seamlessly collaborate with team members or clients by adding them to a plan and providing editing or view-only access.
  • Add comments and create comment threads to discuss aspects of your plan during the design process.
  • Quickly share a link to your plan so relevant stakeholders can view a read-only version on their mobile devices.
  • Plan files created in the desktop applications can be opened and edited by our web applications, and vice versa.

Creating a Cloud Plan​

As discussed in The Home Screen, a cloud plan can be created in a number of ways:

New Plan Wizard, found on the home screen as well as in The Toolbar can be used to create cloud and local (locally saved) plans. In the final step of creating a plan using New Plan Wizard, the button highlighted below will decide whether a plan is saved to the cloud or locally.

new plan wizard cloud toggle

A cloud plan can also be created by clicking New Cloud Plan: Note this will create a default plan befitting the defaults you have set (in Tools > Preferences > Defaults in the Toolbar). Note that default plans do not have a location set initially and so won't have aerial mapping available. If necesary to add a location to a default plan: Click F2 to open the Edit Plan Properties menu > uncheck the Don't Set Location box > choose your location.

Uploading an Existing Plan to the Cloud​

If you have a plan or plans saved locally they can be saved to the cloud in one of two ways:

From the Workspace​

To save a local plan that you have open in RapidPath to the cloud: Simply click the Invarion Cloud Plan Details button in the Toolbar on the top-right, highlighted below.

toolbar cloud button

Then click Transfer to Invarion Cloud, choose the file name you would like to use initially for that plan in the cloud, and which folder you would like to save it to (these can be updated later if need be).

Now that the plan is a saved to the cloud, Invarion Cloud Plan Details menu will display information about the plan, its collaborators who have editing privleges, and Comments added to the plan.

cloud plan details

Doing this will leave the locally saved copy of your plan as is. Changes and saves to the cloud file you create will not be applied to the local file.

If you want to return to working on the local version, you will find it in the same location in your computer's File Explorer. It can also be spotted in your Recent Plans in the RapidPath Home Screen - note the cloud icon indicating which version of the file is saved to the cloud.

home screen saved plans