Kahua Offline

Kahua Offline is a feature that allows you to have certain apps within a project, along with the data for those apps, downloaded to your mobile device or computer so that you are able to continue working on those apps in the event that your connection to the internet is lost or interrupted.

The feature must first be enabled in your domain by your domain administrator. Once enabled for your domain, each user who wants to use the feature must enable offline access for their own profile. Offline access can be enabled in the mobile host and the desktop host. Once enabled for a host, you must enable it for each combination of project and application where you intend to use it within 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 or 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
• Manage your Kahua Offline settings

Enable offline application access for your domain

Your domain administrator must enable this feature for your domain for it to be available to individual users. This is done by selecting the Offline option 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 mobile host, the desktop host, or both.

To enable offline access in either host, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to your profile icon in the header.
   • For the mobile host 

     

   • For the desktop host 

     

2. Select My Settings.
3. Select the Offline tab.
4. Select Enabled.
   • For the mobile host 

     

   • For the desktop host 

     

5. Click Save.

This enables the feature, but each application in each project where you want to use this feature must by enabled as well.

Enable offline access for an application

There are two options for enabling offline access for an application within a project. 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 that selection in the My Settings > Offline tab.

If you do not enable it at this time, you will not be asked again. Instead, you can go to the My Settings > Offline tab and enable offline access for this and other combinations of project and application. Refer to "Manage Kahua Offline settings" below.

The message requesting to enable offline access for an application in the mobile host appears as follows:

The message requesting to enable offline access for an application in the desktop host appears as follows:

Manage your Kahua Offline settings

At any time, you can return to the My Settings > Offline tab to manage the offline access settings. You can disable or re-enable offline access for yourself and manage the amount of space allowed for it on your device.

You can also enable or disable the feature for each application and project combination and select whether or not to include reference files. For the File Manager app, you can select which project folders are included in the offline access feature.

The following fields appear on the page and can be modified as appropriate: