Availability: All plans.
Summary
The document queue is where work in progress lives. It tracks every document from the moment you submit it until its legal descriptions are on the map, and it holds the ones that came back processed but not yet placed, and the ones that failed. Open it from Document Queue In the project menu.
The Add Document menu item carries a badge counting documents that processed but are not in the project layers yet, and the badge turns into a dot while anything is still running.
Usage notes
The three steps
An uploaded file runs three steps in order: Upload, OCR, then Plot. Upload puts the file on the project. OCR reads the page into text. Plot is the AI pass that turns that text into calls. The step you are on carries a spinning marker, finished steps carry a check, and a progress bar runs underneath until the document completes.
A description you pasted as text skips those steps. It has nothing to scan, so it runs one step and reports Processing until it is done.
The card names the status as it goes: Queued, Uploading, OCRing, Plotting, then Complete, or Error with the reason beside it.
The processing notification
A card follows the work over the whole workspace, bottom right, holding the same steps. It stays until you dismiss it with its close button, so you can leave the pane and keep watching. When the document finishes, the card offers Add to Project Layers, or Close when the descriptions are already placed.
Reloading or closing the tab mid run interrupts the document, and the browser asks you to confirm before it lets you. A document interrupted that way may need uploading again.
What the pane groups
Processed Project Documents holds finished documents whose descriptions are not in the layers yet. Failed Documents holds the ones that produced nothing. Processing Documents holds whatever is still running. With none of the three, the pane reads No documents in queue and offers Upload Additional Documents.
The processed card
Each finished document shows its name, the count of descriptions Trace found, and the original file name as a link that opens the file in a new tab. Once a document has been through the AI more than once it also shows an AI Attempts count.
Under that, a Legal Descriptions list gives every description Trace pulled out, with its call count and any warnings. Add to Project Layers at the bottom adds all of them at once and redraws the project.
Plotting warnings
An amber triangle beside a description means Trace read it but does not expect it to plot correctly. Click the triangle to read which condition it found.
| Warning | What Trace found | What to do | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lot and Block | A lot and block description. Trace has no access to the recorded plat it depends on. | Do not expect a plot. Type the lot’s courses if the plat prints them, or put the plat on the map as an overlay. | Lot and block descriptions |
| Complex Curves | A curve call of a form Trace does not solve. | A compound or reverse curve written as one course plots once split into one curve line per arc. A spiral does not plot at all. | Curves Trace cannot plot as written |
| Plss Boundary References | One description mixing PLSS and metes and bounds. Trace plots one or the other, not both together. | Work out the distance the section corner was standing in for, then write that course as an ordinary bearing and distance. | Calls that reference something Trace cannot see |
| Internal Angles | Courses given as internal angles rather than bearings. | These plot cleanly in the manual plotting editor, which takes interior and deflection angles and spends no credits. Move the work there. | Deed syntax reference |
| Referential Legal Description | The description leans on a geological feature or an outside record Trace cannot see. | Resolve the line from the source it points at, then type it as a course. Where that source is not in hand, this is survey work. | Calls that reference something Trace cannot see |
A warning is about the description, not about the scan. It says Trace read the words and does not expect them to produce a correct boundary, so another pass through the AI will not change the outcome. What Trace can and cannot plot sets out the four outcomes these five conditions fall into, and Read your description before you upload it catches every one of them before a credit is spent.
A warned description still lands on the map if you add it. Read the plot before you trust it, and type the description by hand if it came out wrong.
Failed documents
A document that yielded no descriptions at all is a failure, not a warning. Its card carries a red Error - Unplottable banner, a Try Again button and a delete control. When a document will not process covers what to do with it.
Where descriptions go next
With Auto-plot after processing on, which is the default, Trace places descriptions on the map the moment plotting finishes and the queue card is only there if you want to look. Turn the switch off in default project settings to review calls before anything draws.
Renaming a document
The queue does not rename documents. Open the document in the manual editor and type in the title box in its header; the name saves itself. Description names are edited from the tables instead.
Options
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Document Queue | Project rail | Opens this pane |
| Back chevron | Pane header | Returns to Add Document |
| Add to Project Layers | Processed card, notification | Places every description in the document and redraws |
| Warning triangle | Description row | Names the condition Trace expects to plot badly |
| File name link | Processed card | Opens the uploaded original in a new tab |
| Try Again | Failed card | Opens the guidance dialog and re-runs the AI |
| Delete | Failed card | Removes the document from the project, after a confirmation |
| Upload Additional Documents | Empty state | Returns to Add Document |
| Close | Notification card | Dismisses the notification; the document is unaffected |
Related
- Plot from a document, for getting a document into the queue
- When a document will not process, for failures and retries
- The documents and legal descriptions tables, for the project’s full lists, closure and OCR columns, and renaming
- Manage layers, for the descriptions once they are on the map
- Credits and plots, for what each pass through the AI costs