Your rating scale and word lists

Admins only. Everyone can see these settings. Only an admin can change them.

These live in Settings, on the Roads tab.

The rating scale

AssetLink does not decide how you rate pavement. You tell it your scale, and its bands decide how each rating is coloured on the map and what it is called.

A new account uses a common starting point until you save a scale of your own: PASER, whole numbers from 1 to 10, where higher is better, in five bands.

Band	Ratings
Failed	1 to 2
Poor	3 to 4
Fair	5 to 6
Good	7 to 8
Excellent	9 to 10

This is a starting point, not a rule. To change it:

1. Under Rating scale, optionally press one of the Start from buttons (PASER 1–10, PCI 0–100, Simple 1–5). This only fills the form.
2. Set the Name, the Lowest rating and Highest rating, and the Decimal places a rating may have (none, one or two).
3. Say whether a better road has a higher rating or a lower rating.
4. Set the bands. Each has a name, the highest rating it covers, and the colour it is shown as. A scale has between 2 and 5 bands.
5. Press Save scale.

Changing the scale later

Changing the scale never changes a rating that has already been recorded. Blocks rated on the old scale keep their rating and the band it fell in then, and their panel says they were rated on an earlier scale. New ratings use the new scale.

Surface types

Surface types is your own list of what a road is made of. It starts with Asphalt, Concrete, Chip seal, Gravel and Unpaved. Rename, add and remove entries to match how your department talks.

Distresses

Distresses is the list your raters choose from when they note what they saw on a block. It starts with a short list of common ones, such as Cracking, Rutting and Potholes, and is yours to rename, add to and trim. Each one is marked low, medium or high when it is noted; those three levels are fixed.

Removing a word

Remove does one of two things. A word that has never been used is deleted. A word already used on a block or an inspection is retired instead: it stays on the records that have it, shows as "(retired)" in the list, and can be brought back with Restore.