Kahua Offline allows offline access to applications. The feature must be enabled in your domain, then each user must enable offline access for their profile. Offline access can be enabled in the desktop host and the mobile host. Once enabled for a host, it must be selected for each project and application within that project for that host.
When a project and application combination is enabled, data from the application will be saved to your device. When the data has been downloaded, Kahua will work locally any time your connection is lost. Kahua checks for a lost/found connection approximately every 30 seconds, to avoid intermittent disconnects when working in areas of irregular connections.
The following applications allow for offline access:
- Daily Reports
- Field Observations
- File Manager
- Punch List Libraries
- Punch Lists
- RFIs
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Enable offline application access for your domain
- Enable the offline application access for your profile
- Enable offline access for an application
- Disable or re-enable offline application access
Enable offline application access for your domain
This feature must be enabled for your domain to be available to individual users. This is done on the Domain Defaults tab of the Domain Settings app. For more information, refer to Domain Settings.
Enable the offline application access for your profile
Offline application access must be enabled in the host where you want it to be available. You can enable it for your account in the desktop host, the mobile host, or both. This enables the feature, but each application in each project where you want to use this feature must by enabled as well.
To enable offline access in either host, complete the following steps:
- Navigate to your profile icon in the header.
- For the desktop host
- For the mobile host
- For the desktop host
- Select My Settings.
- Select the Offline tab.
- Select Enabled.
- For the desktop host
- For the mobile host
- For the desktop host
- Click Save.
Enable offline access for an application
Once you've enabled Offline access from the My Settings > Offline tab, the next time you open a project and eligible application you will receive a message informing you that the app is available for offline access and asking you to enable it. Select Enable to do so. By default, record reference files are included in offline access. You can modify the settings in the My Settings > Offline tab.
If you do not enable it at this time, you will not be asked again. You will have to go to the My Settings > Offline tab to enable offline access for this combination of project and application.
The message requesting to enable offline access for an application in the desktop host appears as follows:
The message requesting to enable offline access for an application in the mobile host appears as follows:
Disable or re-enable offline application access
At any time, you can return to My Settings > Offline and disable or re-enable offline access for the entire feature or for a project and application combination.
You can adjust the following fields:
- Enabled - Toggle this option on or off to enable or disable the Kahua Offline feature.
- Max - Select the maximum amount of space to allow for the Kahua Offline feature.
Project and App Grid:
- Enabled - Toggle this option on or off to enable or disable Kahua Offline for this project and application combination.
- References - Toggle this option on or off to include or not include reference files with records stored offline for this project and application combination.
- Folders - This option only appears for the File Manager application. Click on the folder icon
to open up a list of available folders and enable or disable offline access. Click on each folder to drill down to make changes at the lower folder levels. - Delete
- Select this option to remove the Kahua Offline feature for this project and application combination. The next time you open the project and application combination, you will be asked if you want to enable Kahua Offline.