Webinar: Konect 2 – The next generation of the Konect platform

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been sharing Konect 2 with select customers and reseller partners through private First Look sessions. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re now ready to open the doors to our entire community.

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We’re excited to invite you to a 30-minute First Look webinar for Konect 2 – the next generation of the Konect field data capture platform.

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been sharing Konect 2 with select customers and reseller partners through private First Look sessions. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re now ready to open the doors to our entire community.

Webinar Highlights

Konect 2 is a complete rebuild of the Konect app, designed to make fieldwork faster, more reliable, and easier to manage. In this session, we’ll walk you through:

  • A modern platform built on Flutter – delivering native performance across iOS, Android, and Windows tablets from a single codebase.
  • Offline-first with automatic sync – capture data anywhere, with background syncing that removes manual steps and reduces the risk of data loss.
  • The new Data Tab – a powerful list-first view for searching, filtering, and managing project data without relying solely on the map. 
  • A refreshed user interface – cleaner design, smoother navigation, and customisable settings that reduce clicks and speed up fieldwork.
  • Stronger security – multi-factor authentication at launch, with single sign-on planned for a future release.
  • Migration made simple – run both apps side by side, with no new accounts or project rebuilds required.

Event Details

  • Date: Wednesday 22 April
  • Time: 10:00 – 10:40 am

Why Watch? 

  • This webinar is open to all Konect customers, reseller partners, and anyone in your organisation involved in field data capture, project management, or IT. Whether you’re a daily Konect user or a decision-maker evaluating the platform, this webinar will give you a clear picture of what’s ahead.
  • Following the webinar, we’ll be opening our beta program to select participants. If you’re interested in getting hands-on with Konect 2 before the official release, this session is the perfect starting point.

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Q&A from the webinar

How will the syncing be handled where multiple users potentially update the same features while offline?


This remains the same as Konect 1.
Konect has a simple conflict resolution model of latest change. The record with the most recent change date time will be used as the current value.
If your change was earlier than an already committed change, Konect will still write the record to the database, and it can be retrieved using the export transaction tools.
 

OG Konnect when connected with a live connection with a poor internet would create a blank map even if you have the offline project saved to the device. will konect 2 allow for the Offline data to be updated if possible with online data, but if the connection lags display offline data?


Basemaps:
Konect 2 like Konect 1 uses online basemaps unless an mbtiles basemap file has been prepared and assigned to the project (and downloaded). If the project only uses online basemaps this can lead to blank maps when no user vector data is on screen. We are investigating offering a system mbtiles basemap file available to all users. This system mbtiles file would be vector tile based and cover all of Australia. Falling back to this mbtiles file would ensure some basemap coverage.
 
User data:
Konect 2 will merge live data with local data when there is a connection, ensuring the latest version is always used and displayed.
Unfortunately, being able to confidently determine the current state of the network is difficult, you may notice this in other apps on your device as you leave your home wifi and it takes a few seconds to move to cellular. When a cellular network behaves erratically such that Konect continually receives updates about connectively changes this can inject latency that leads to a poor experience.
In Konect 2 to work around these sorts of situations we have included a new feature to switch to work with offline data only. This removes the need to go into airplane mode. The switch is temporary so your users will not need to remember to turn it back.

We have found that with intermittent service it was better to switch the device into aeroplane mode to avoid the lag and blank maps
 

Basemaps:
Konect 2 like Konect 1 uses online basemaps unless an mbtiles basemap file has been prepared and assigned to the project (and downloaded). If the project only uses online basemaps this can lead to blank maps when no user vector data is on screen. We are investigating offering a system mbtiles basemap file available to all users. This system mbtiles file would be vector tile based and cover all of Australia. Falling back to this mbtiles file would ensure some basemap coverage.
 
User data:
Konect 2 will merge live data with local data when there is a connection, ensuring the latest version is always used and displayed.
Unfortunately, being able to confidently determine the current state of the network is difficult, you may notice this in other apps on your device as you leave your home wifi and it takes a few seconds to move to cellular. When a cellular network behaves erratically such that Konect continually receives updates about connectively changes this can inject latency that leads to a poor experience.
In Konect 2 to work around these sorts of situations we have included a new feature to switch to work with offline data only. This removes the need to go into airplane mode. The switch is temporary so your users will not need to remember to turn it back.

I’m developing a new client. What is the timeline for K2? Will this have implications for the dev and deployment?
 

We are expecting release prior to the end of this financial year. It will be possible for clients to use both the konect OG and konect 2 without impact to a konect environment.

To be clear, is it just a new app, not the Manager and back-end?


The Konect2 release is for the IOS and Android mobile app. Konect Manager will not change in the short term for staff.

The newsletter indicated stronger security through MFA and SSO, what timeframe are we realistically looking at to see SSO implemented with Konect2?


TBA

Will there be the facility to copy an existing feature for a new feature?


At release there will not be a copy existing feature for a new feature. Konect does offer fill with last used default values in the form definition that can help fill form data when collecting sequential records that are similar.

A feature like this is on the roadmap.

Will the map retain your current map position when changing Projects?


Konect 2 currently provides an option to return to your last project location when changing projects. This could be extended to open a project at the location of the previously opened project. Many of our users turn on keep GPS in map view, to keep the map focused where they are working.

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