What's new in Survey

Information on the latest updates in Landonline - Survey.

Set firm notice preferences

September 2025

System managers can now set your firm’s notice preferences under Account Management.

You can choose whether notices are emailed to your firm, and whether print notices are sent to your office.
 

Image of account management, with the Firm notice preferences tab highlighted and open.

For more information, see: 
Set firm notice preferences

Update user privilege groups

September 2025

System managers can create and edit groups in Account Management.

You can set up your firm's Landonline users into groups, and update users’ privileges by groups.
 

image of account management, with the Groups tab highlighted and open.

For more information, see: 
Set up, edit or remove groups

Set default text and line properties in Layout Plan Sheets

September 2025

You can pre-set the line and text properties for any new user-added lines or labels you add to your layout sheets via the Default line properties and Default text properties panel.
 

image of part of the layout sheets screen, highlighting the default line and text properties panel at the left.

For more information on default lines and text properties, see: 
Default line and text properties panel 

Plan Generation now available in New Landonline

July 2025

You can now draft your survey plans in new Landonline. Use new Plan Generation to define and lay out diagrams for Survey and Title sheets and generate Records of Survey and Title plans for your survey dataset.
 

image of the plan generation layout sheets screen with 3 diagrams laid out on the page.

Important: Before you start working in new Plan Generation, please read:

Important information for transitioning to new Plan Generation

You can access Plan Generation from either:

  • Survey capture, by selecting the Plan Generation icon from the workflow control bar

    image of survey capture, highlighting the plan generation icon in the workflow control bar.
  • My Work page, by left-clicking the CSD reference and selecting Open CSD in Plan Generation

    image of my work page. A CSD reference has been selected and "open CSD in Plan Generation" is highlighted.


For full guidance on working in new Plan Generation, see:

Plan Generation

Back to My Work from Plan Generation

July 2025

When working in Plan Generation, you now have the option to return directly to My Work instead of Survey Capture.

You can return to My Work from:

  • the top left of the Plan Generation landing page 

    Image of the plan generation landing page. 'My Work' is highlighted at the top left of the screen.
  • Define diagrams, via Switch mode. Left-click Diagrams at the top left of the screen, then select Return to My Work 

    image of the define diagrams screen. 'Diagrams' in the top left corner has been selected and highlighted, and 'Return to My Work' is also highlighted.
  • Layout Plan Sheets, via Switch mode. Left-click Sheets at the top left of the screen, then select Return to My Work.

    image of the layout plan sheets screen. 'Sheets' in the top left corner has been selected and highlighted, and 'Return to My Work' is also highlighted.

Filter surveys by enabled user

June 2025

Under Firm surveys, you can now filter the listed surveys by enabled user. This allows you to check which surveys at your firm a specific user has access to.
 

screenshot of My work page, with the Firm surveys tab open. "Filter by enabled user" is highlighted and a drop-down list of users is visible.

The list of users in the filter will include:

  • active users associated to your firm, if they are enabled to any survey
  • inactive users who haven’t yet been removed from your firm, if they are still enabled to a survey
  • external users who are enabled to any of your firm’s surveys.

For more information on filtering your firm’s surveys by enabled user, see: 
Filter surveys by enabled user

Navigate to My messages

May 2025

You can now navigate directly to My messages within Landonline Survey.

Select the 9-dot menu at the top left of My work page to open the app switcher.

To open My messages, you can either: 

  • select My Messages to open My messages in your current browser tab

    image of the app switcher in My work. My Messages is highlighted.
  • select the arrow next to My Messages to open it in a new browser tab. 

    image of the app switcher in My work. The arrow next to My Messages is highlighted.

You can also still access My messages by selecting Notices in the app switcher, then selecting the My messages tab.
 

image of the notices application. The my messages tab is highlighted.

For more information on searching, viewing, or downloading messages, see:
My messages 

How height limits are shown on the Schedule / Memorandum

May 2025

Based on your feedback, we’ve made a change to the way Upper and Lower limit columns show on the attached Schedule / Memorandum supporting document.  

If no value has been entered in a height limit field, a dash will now show to identify no limit exists.
 

image of a schedule / memorandum with only a lower height limit displayed. There is a dash in the upper limit column.

For more information, see: 
Show height limits in schedule / memorandum tables

Account management - update firm details and assign user privileges

May 2025

Account management is now available in all New Landonline applications - Survey, Dealing, Web Search and TA certification - for system managers only.

This feature lets system managers update their firm contact details and manage user privileges - all within New Landonline.

To access this function, open the main menu at the top right of your landing page and select Account Management.
 

image of My work page, with the main menu open at the top right of the page. Account managament is highlighted.

For more information on account management, see:
Change a firm or user's details in Landonline

Update My Profile details

April 2025

You can now update your physical and email addresses, preferred name, and phone details for notifications in all Landonline applications. 

Select My Profile in the main menu to access your contact details.
 

image of the main menu in Survey, with My Profile highlighted.

You'll be taken to the My Profile page to update your details.

You can choose to use the same details for all associated firms by selecting the checkbox in the Contact addresses for notifications section.
 

Checkbox for associate all firms

To update contact details individually for different firms, you will need to switch your firm first from the header.

Changing your email address

Changing your email will also update your default email to receive Web Search orders. 

Note that it can take 5 to 10 minutes for emails to update across your applications.