These settings apply to every site. They control how the build programme is grouped into stages, what those stages are called and coloured, and when scaffold is up.
What each stage is called and how it is coloured on the site plan.
The real COINS build tasks, in programme order, grouped into the stages they belong to. Each block is the work underway while a plot shows that colour. The line under each stage name says exactly when the colour appears: either when the tasks in the block above are all finished, or when a chosen task in its own block starts. The final stage is the finish line: a plot turns that colour only once every task is finished, and black when it legally completes.
How a plot's selling status is shown on the site plan. These settings apply to every site.
The thick outline drawn around each plot on the site plan when the sales view is switched on — so how a plot is selling can be read at the same time as how it is building. Turn it on with the Sales button on the plan.
These four are fixed. Three come straight from the Plot Status column of the COINS export, so they cannot be renamed without them ceasing to match the data. Legally completed is worked out rather than exported — the export has no column saying a plot has completed, so it is taken from the forecast legal completion date having passed. Because none of this is dated history, the outline only shows when the plan is on today.
How roads and footpaths are drawn on the site plan. These settings apply to every site.
The stages a traced road section moves through, in the order they happen on site. Each one gets its own start and finish date boxes on every section, and its own row in the plan's key. Roads are shaded with a pattern rather than a solid colour so the drawing's own linework still reads through them — the mark beside each stage is which pattern it uses. The right choice depends on the drawing: on a tight urban plan a cross hatch can read as solid, and on a wide-verge site a single diagonal disappears.
Order matters. A section only counts as having reached a stage once every stage above it has a finish date — so moving a stage up or down changes how far along sections read on the plan, not just the order of this list.
Removing a stage does not delete anything. It disappears from the key and from every site's date boxes, but dates already entered against it are kept — adding the stage back brings them straight back.
Adoption cannot be changed and is always last: it is a legal state rather than build work, and it is a pair of one-off events rather than a start and a finish. Hatch spacing and line weight are not set here either — they are judged against the drawing itself, so they live on the plan. Open the key in the Infrastructure view and they sit under the road swatches.
The range of house types this builder puts on its sites. These settings apply to every site — each site uses whichever of them you tag its plots to.
Add the house types you build — Larkspur, Thornbury, a plot-type code, whatever you call them on your own drawings. Once they are here, each plot can be tagged to one in Site setup, and the plan gets a House Type Schedule you can tick types off in — to see only the Larkspurs before committing to a drawing change, or to find where a poorly-selling type sits before drawing a re-plan boundary.
Renaming is safe. Each type keeps a hidden id of its own, and the plot tagging points at that rather than at the name — so correcting a spelling, or renaming a type outright, keeps every plot already tagged to it.
Removing a type does not untag anything. It disappears from the Site setup dropdown and from the plan's schedule, but plots already tagged to it keep that tagging — adding the type back brings them straight back.
No colours here, deliberately. Plots stay coloured by build stage or sales status; house type is a filter you tick on and off rather than a fourth colour scheme competing with those.
The kinds of ground a site takes over while it is being built — the compound, the sales area, a materials store. These settings apply to every site; each site gets its own areas drawn on its own plan.
Each type here becomes a draw button on the Infrastructure view, so you can trace round the compound the same way you trace a road. Every area you draw carries an on site from and off site by date, and the plan shows it dashed before it arrives, filled while it is there, and ghosted once it has gone.
The colour belongs to the type, not to the area. Unlike a road section — which you name and colour one at a time — every compound on every site is drawn the same colour, or the key on the plan would not mean anything.
Renaming is safe. Each type keeps a hidden id of its own, and the areas you have drawn point at that rather than at the name — so correcting a spelling keeps every area already traced against it.
Removing a type does not delete any area. It disappears from the draw buttons, but areas already drawn against it keep their name and their colour on the plan — adding the type back brings it fully back.
Who changed these settings, and when — build stages, sales colours, road stages, house types and site area types, across every site.