This month we have some changes to the image gallery and current energy pages, plus several bug fixes.
New image gallery
We've implemented a new and less annoying image upload feature:
- You can now drag and drop files to upload onto the page
- There's a list of images to upload, which have individual uploading statuses, so you can see how far along the upload process is - and you know which files failed to upload if there's a problem
- We'll only upload two images concurrently - previously if you had, say, 25 images, the app would try to upload them all at once and this could cause upload failures.
New current energy page
Again, this looks pretty similar to the old page - but under the hood it's totally different code. We've provided side-by-side comparisons on the bar charts between baseline and current use, and improved the alignment and visual appearance of the table, with the numbers lining up nicely in columns.
We do have plans to align the reporting in the app with the reporting in the report – but this is something we'll be looking at closer in 2023.
"Carbon Co-op"-style appliances bug fix
We discovered a set of related bugs in the Carbon Co-op appliances calculations that together led to space heating demand (SHD) being higher than it should be. In the majority of affected assessments, the overestimate was between 1% and 5%, though in some it was more significant. (In many assessments this behaviour was not triggered at all.)
In keeping with our backwards compatibility policy for building model changes, projects started before this bug was fixed will retain their old calculations, but new projects will use the fixed version.
Smaller bug fixes
- Per person energy use and CO₂ emissions were swapped on the 'compare scenarios' page
- The household questionnaire page's layout had been messed up - it's now readable again.
- Applying bulk measures to window elements that don't have the 'subtract from' field set is now possible.
Coming soon
We'll have the new floor u value calculator ready hopefully in October - we'll post about that when it goes live.