SwiftComply

How-to articles for Stormwater Authority Users

Authority Users

Connect ArcGIS Online with OAuth, add ESRI Feature Layers, and import structures or sites into SwiftComply.

Integrating ArcGIS and Configuring Map Layers

A tour of the Sites map view — pins, filtering, ArcGIS layers, and how to navigate to site detail pages.

Using the Interactive Map

Utilizing GIS & Mapping in your Stormwater program

GIS & Mapping

An overview of the Enforcement program — how case files, entries, and escalation levels work.

Overview of the Enforcement Program

How to create enforcement cases, add entries, set levels, and close cases.

Creating and Managing Enforcement Cases

Managing enforcements in your Stormwater program

Enforcements

An overview of SwiftComply Stormwater — what it does, who uses it, how it's organized, and how to access it.

What is SwiftComply Stormwater?

A tour of the SwiftComply Stormwater Dashboard — counters, recently inspected sites, weather, map, and Jump to.

Navigating the Dashboard

How to add, edit, and manage user accounts in SwiftComply Stormwater.

Setting Up Your Organization and Inviting Users

How to log in to SwiftComply Stormwater with single sign-on (SSO).

SSO Login

Roles in SwiftComply Stormwater — Administrator, Global User, Restricted User, View Only User, and Contractor.

Understanding User Roles

Use the Calendar to view and schedule events, set up recurring inspections, and sync with Google or Outlook.

Understanding the Calendar and Scheduler

Getting Started

How the Monitoring program works — sites, events, records, and how monitoring data flows into reports and analytics.

Understanding the Monitoring Program

How to add monitoring sites, enter records, and configure flow meters within the Monitoring program.

Setting Up Sites and Creating Monitoring Events

Logging precipitation events, qualifying event detection, and how SwiftComply integrates with NOAA, Aeris, and Weather Underground.

Precipitation Events and Weather Data Integration

Monitoring

Manage your notification preferences, create custom email templates, and view the email log.

Setting Up Notifications and Email Templates

Managing notifications in your Stormwater program

Notifications

How report templates work — field types, prepopulated data, composite fields, and the report status lifecycle.

Understanding Reports and Inspection Forms

How to create a new report, fill it out, save drafts with auto-save, and submit it.

Creating and Filling Out an Inspection Report

Submit a draft report, approve or disapprove submitted reports, and generate PDF exports.

Submitting, Approving, and Rejecting Reports

Managing Reports & Inspections in SwiftComply Stormwater

Reports & Inspections

Tour of the customer-managed settings — users, BMPs, deficiency levels, statuses, tags, equipment, ESRI, and more.

Configuring Instance Settings

Track field instruments, configure equipment types, and assign equipment to users.

Managing Equipment

Configure compliance status types, learn how SSO is enabled, and how billing/subscriptions are managed.

SSO, Compliance Status Types, and Billing Settings

Setting up & configuring in the SwiftComply Stormwater program

Settings & Configuration

A tour of the Analytics modules — deficiencies, sites, BMPs, reports, enforcement, IDDE, and weather.

Understanding the Analytics Dashboard

Detailed views and exports for each analytics module: deficiencies, IDDE, BMPs, enforcement, and weather.

Viewing Deficiency, IDDE, BMP, Enforcement, and Weather Analytics

Analytics & Reporting

How the BMP database is structured, including BMPs, categories, effectiveness ratings, and how they're used.

Understanding BMPs and the BMP Database

How to add BMP implementations to a site, track effectiveness, and link them to deficiencies.

Adding BMP Implementations and Tracking Effectiveness

Managing Best Management Practices in your Stormwater program

BMPs

An overview of the Construction program — features, fields, and how it tracks compliance at active construction sites.

Overview of the Construction Program

How to conduct inspections and log deficiencies on a construction site.

Managing a Construction Site (Inspections and Deficiencies)

How to log precipitation events, BMP installations, training activities, and sampling records on a construction site.

Logging Precipitation, BMPs, Training, and Sampling

Construction Program

What deficiencies are, their fields, statuses, audit trail, and where they appear in SwiftComply Stormwater.

Understanding Deficiencies

The full deficiency lifecycle — creating, setting levels, assigning, resolving, and emailing externally.

Creating, Assigning, and Resolving a Deficiency

How to add corrective actions, link BMPs to deficiencies, view the audit trail, and use public resolution links.

Tracking Corrective Actions, BMPs, and Audit History

Managing deficiencies in your Stormwater program

Deficiencies

An overview of the Industrial program — features and fields specific to industrial stormwater compliance.

Overview of the Industrial Program

How to conduct industrial inspections, manage SPCC plans, and log sampling and monitoring data.

Managing Inspections, SPCC Plans, and Monitoring

Industrial Program

How to create an investigation, document findings with events, record outcomes, and close cases.

Creating, Documenting, and Tracking Investigations

Investigations

What sites are in SwiftComply Stormwater — fields, programs, navigation, and how they tie everything together.

Understanding Sites

How to create new sites, edit existing ones, and use the bulk tag and compliance status editors.

Adding and Editing a Site

How to manage a site's compliance status, priority level, and tags — including bulk operations and admin configuration.

Setting Compliance Status, Priority, and Tags

Use the bulk tag editor, bulk compliance status editor, and CSV export to manage many sites at once.

Bulk Editing Sites: Tags, Compliance Status, and Export

How to upload files and images to a site, manage them with categories, and configure file categories.

Uploading Files, Images, and Exporting Site Data

View and edit a site's interactive map — perimeter, BMP markers, monitoring sites, deficiencies, and ESRI overlays.

Using the Site Map (GIS)

Managing Locations & Sites within the Stormwater program

Locations & Sites

Track permanent stormwater infrastructure — add assets, conduct inspections, and log maintenance activities.

Municipal Fixed Assets (Adding, Inspecting, Maintenance)

Log field maintenance activities like sweeping, catch basin cleaning, and inlet maintenance against sites.

Municipal Field Activities (Sweeping, Catch Basin Cleaning)

Track street sweeping operations, material weights collected, and produce annual regulatory reports.

Sweeping Summary and Material Weights

Municipal Programs

Track stormwater BMPs at completed development projects — inspections, maintenance, and long-term effectiveness.

Managing Post-Construction BMP Inspections and Maintenance

Post-Construction Program

Track workplace and site safety compliance — inspections, training logs, deficiencies, and risk assessments.

Safety Program

Log municipal maintenance activities — sweeping, litter pickup, landscaping, spill cleanup — as a running entry log.

Good Housekeeping Program

Track public outreach activities required by MS4 permits — log presentations, workshops, school visits, and booth events.

Education Program

Small Programs

Manage Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure compliance for facilities that store oil/petroleum.

SPCC Program

Manage stormwater outfalls — discharge points where water exits the storm sewer system into receiving waters.

Outfalls Program

Track individual stormwater structures (catch basins, inlets, manholes) within a site, with structure-specific deficiencies.

Structures Program

Specialty Programs

Assign work items to team members, link them to records, and track progress through comments and the activity log.

Creating, Assigning, and Tracking Tasks

Tasks

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