Reading the forecast
How to navigate the year-by-year depreciation forecast.
What it is
After a report is parsed, the depreciation report page shows every item in the year it's projected to need work. Bar length is cost and colour is category. Items without a year or a cost are listed separately as Undated / no-cost items.
What you can do
- Overview: four tiles at the top show what's overdue, what's due this year, the next 10 years and when the next report is due. Choose Hide to fold them into one line; Pleno remembers your choice on this device.
- Years: overdue work and this year's items are listed by default. Click a year (or its arrow) to list or hide its items. The range menu shows the next 2, 5 or 10 years or the full report; in the full report, runs of empty years fold into one line.
- Find an item: the search box in the top bar matches item titles and categories. While you search, every matching year is listed across the whole report. Filter narrows the page to chosen categories.
- Beyond the range: when items fall after the last year shown, the timeline says how many and offers Show full report.
- Item panel: click a bar or an item to open its details: costs, remaining life, projected year, the engineer's notes and its history. Use the arrows in the panel, or the ↑ and ↓ keys (or J and K), to step through items in order; Esc closes the panel. The item you last looked at stays marked so you can find your place. On a phone, tap a year's bar to list its items, then tap an item; its details open full screen, and × closes them.
- The report itself: an item's In the report section opens the uploaded PDF at that item's page, or the whole report. The Report menu in the top bar opens the whole report, and holds Add item and Replace report.
- If the PDF was deleted from Documents, the forecast says so and items can't open at their page. An admin (president, VP, delegated PM) can Attach PDF: pick it from Documents or upload it. The forecast isn't parsed again, so use the same report to keep the page numbers right. Uploading the PDF to Depreciation / reserve study in Documents also offers Link to forecast once it's saved.
- Completed items drop off the timeline and are listed under Completed, where you can open and reopen them. Archived items are listed the same way, with Restore item to bring one back.
- Items on the board show their card or project number; their bars are striped.
Who can do it
Council on any plan. A forecast your strata already has stays readable after a trial ends — parsing a new report is what needs Pro.
Limits and things to know
- The forecast is a working view for council, not a substitute for the signed engineer report.
- Items you add as council-owned forecast items sit alongside parsed components.