At the highest level of the Benchmark Compliance program, program managers can filter all the sites in their portfolio(s), manage each site's status, resolve conflicts, and navigate between Covered and Uncovered Sites. This article will go over each aspect of the status tab at the Global or Group level and how to manage your imports.
At the very top of the status tab, you will see two buttons that separate this page into two views: Covered Sites and Non-Covered Sites.
Covered Sites - Covered Sites have a defined city_ubid and benchmarking_ubid. This means that it will be easier to identify problems or duplications when sites are re-imported every week.
Non-Covered Sites - Non-Covered Sites did not have a defined city_ubid ID when they were imported into Maalka. This means that the sites have data associated with them, but it may be harder to identify issues with them during weekly imports.
To move sites from the Non-Covered section to the Covered section, you will need to export your data (data can be exported from the Reports section in the Maalka program), add a city_ubid with matching benchmarking_ubid IDs to each building column in your spreadsheet, and reimport.
The Benchmark Compliance program is designed to help you import new and updated Energy Star Portfolio Manager data into the Maalka program every week. In the Status tab, you can see when data was last imported and by whom in the card at the top.
To upload a new file, click the Upload button on the right and select your most recent Energy Star Portfolio Manager file.
After a few minutes, you will receive a notification that your file has been uploaded, and your sites list will be updated.
You can filter your sites in both the Covered and Non-Covered site list by clicking on the pie chart slices. This will quickly tell you, which sites have certain statuses associated with them so that you may contact a site owner and resolve any issues.
If you want to change what filters are being used in your program, you can click the Configure Filters button located in the section header.
This will bring up a screen with several filter options that you can select and immediately implement.
