Barometers

The Barometers section (in the start menu) lets you edit the characteristics of barometers and barometer years, add new ones, add up years and much more. Only administrators of the Envirometer can access the ‘Barometers’ section. The administrator can change user rights via user management.

Below, the Barometer management options are explained in the following sections:

• Add a barometer
• Manage barometers
• Manage barometer years

Add a Barometer

You can expand your subscription with more Barometers (such as for different branches).

• At the bottom of the Barometers page, you can see whether it is possible to expand within your current subscription.
• If this is not possible, you can expand your subscription by one or more barometers via change subscription.
• You can add a new barometer using the ‘Add Barometer’ function at the top right. For an explanation of the settings, see ‘Edit Barometer’ below.

Manage Barometer(s)

When your subscription first starts, a Barometer will be created automatically with the company name as the title and a pre-selection based on the selected industry. You can then customize it according to your needs. Below are all of the options available for managing your barometer(s).

Go to Barometers in the start menu and select a Barometer by clicking on the title in the overview or in the menu on the left. You can now:

• Edit Barometer (top right button):
  • Change the title
  • Define the report title composition: ‘Automatic’ applies ‘Company name – Barometer title’ if those two are different and ‘Company name’ if both are identical.
  • Change industry: This changes the:
    1. Selection of measures
    2. Available industry averages
    3. Fine-tuning of input data and key figures if you use the ‘Reset fine-tuning’ function (below)
  • Reset fine-tuning: Useful for defining the fine-tuning (active input data and key figures) of a new Barometer. There are two options:
    1. Copy the fine-tuning of another barometer
    2. Fine-tuning in accordance with the defined industry
  • Labels can be linked to this barometer
  • Change Periodview: Choose an extra viewing option (besides years) in half years, tertials or quarterlies.
• Define rights for this barometer. Also see user management.
• Delete barometer: Self-explanatory

Important (1): A deleted barometer cannot be retrieved.
Important (2): We will not reduce your subscription automatically if you have deleted a barometer because this would mean you could not add a new barometer. You can reduce your subscription Subscription management.

Manage Barometer years

A new barometer starts with ‘last year’ because this is most likely the year for which you want to enter data. You can change this at any time. Below are all of the options for managing barometer years.

Per Barometer

Go to Barometers in the start menu and select a barometer by clicking on its title. You can now:

• Add a year using the button at the top right.
• Change or delete a year (click on a year).
  • Change the year to a different year (that is not yet used in this barometer).
  • Copy (top right): Make an exact copy of all input data either in the same or a different year. This is useful for testing the effect of a measure, such as green energy or extra waste sorting. In the graph below you can see how the two versions of the same year are shown next to each other.
  • Make primary: This lets you convert a copied year into the ‘real’ version of that year. The ‘primary year’ concept is particularly relevant for the display of graphs for reporting and your defined goals. For help with working with copied years, see graphs.
  • Read-only: This locks a year. Data can then no longer be changed until the year is ‘unlocked’ again. You can see whether the year has been locked by the lock symbol next to a barometer year.

• Delete year (top right): Self-explanatory.

Multiple barometers

Three functions are particularly useful for subscriptions with multiple barometers. These functions are found in the start menu, under Barometers, at the top of the screen.

• Add years: This lets you add a new year to one or more barometers. If the year already exists in a barometer, it will not be added there.
• Add up years: This lets you add up multiple barometer years, for example if you want to add up all locations to calculate a total for the entire organization. Tip: the SUMbarometer P5705 can often be useful for this purpose.
• Years average: This lets you calculate an average for different locations and/or years.

Important: An average or total must be placed in a barometer. This is usually done in a separate ‘total barometer’. In other words, this requires an additional barometer on top of the ones already used for the seperate locations.