Parking and hiding a group

There are two ways to take a tracker group off your screen, and they do very different things. Choosing the wrong one either leaves data in your totals that you meant to remove, or takes it out when you only wanted a tidier list.

The difference in one line

	Hiding	Parking
What it does	Leaves the group off two screens	Withholds the group from everything
Still in balances, reports and totals?	Yes	No
Still resolves in form references and computed figures?	Yes	No
Reversible?	Yes	Yes
Use it for	Decluttering	Retiring

Hiding a group

Hiding is display only. The group carries on exactly as before — balances still net it, global metrics still compute over it, form references still resolve to it, reports still count it. It is simply not drawn on the Tracked Groups list or the dashboard.

Use it when somebody has twenty groups and works with four of them.

Hiding and unhiding

From the group's actions on the Tracked Groups page. Needs Level 6 clearance, and you must be whitelisted on the group.

Seeing hidden groups again

Turn Show hidden on. The toggle lives on the Tracked Groups page only, and your choice is remembered on that device.

Hiding never changes a figure

This is the whole point of it. If turning a group's visibility off changed a total, hiding would silently be parking, and totals would move with nobody having asked. So no figure anywhere is filtered on it.

Parking a group

Parking takes the group out of circulation entirely. Nothing downstream can see it: it leaves the lists, the dashboard, the totals, the reports and the reference pickers.

Use it when a group's life is over — a site closed, a fleet sold, a product range discontinued — and you want its history kept but out of the way.

Parking

From the group's actions. Needs Level 6 clearance and the whitelist, same as hiding.

Getting one back

Tracked Groups → Parked Groups lists everything parked, and restores from there. Nothing is destroyed by parking.

Parking changes figures, and that is intended

A balance that netted a parked group's movements no longer does. A computed parameter that used it no longer resolves it. If you park a group and a total elsewhere moves, that is the mechanism working — check that you wanted parking rather than hiding.

Which one do I want?

Ask what should happen to the numbers.

Do I still want this group counted in my totals?

Yes → hide it. No → park it.

After hiding on a shared device

Trackapt caches parts of the app on your device so it works on a poor connection. Very occasionally a group's visibility takes a moment to catch up on a device that was offline when the change was made. Reloading the page settles it.