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• Grey – a regular data entry field.

• Blue – a WinCan field that is not needed by the standard but is either needed by the software for data management or is a ‘nice to have’ data field in the reporting.

• Green – a field that WinCan VX takes care of for you.  You can of course overwrite the data in the field at any time, but for now you don’t need to worry about it and it will be taken care of in the background as you work through the inspections.

• Yellow (or whatever colour is defined in the User Settings) – a mandatory data field that can be mandatory if;

  • WinCan VX cannot function correctly without it, or

  • leaving it blank will lead to a critical upload error with the shapefiles going into HADDMS.

Note – there are some fields that are conditionally mandatory by HADDMS like the ‘Connected Continuous Item’ (SUPP_CON) in the node header which is mandatory when the ‘Node Type’ (ITEM_TY_CO) is ‘CN’.  There are no special colours for these fields, but the validator will detect them as critical errors when they are left blank.

Open a new blank section header and you will see the following fields down the left-hand side.  These are fields relating to the object or the asset.  Note – hovering your mouse pointer over the cation of a field will display the ‘tip-text’ for that field which will help to explain what this field refers to and also which HADDMS data field it refers to.  They all refer to the pipe or the surface linear item:

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This data field defines where the asset is located.  Advice - care should be taken by operators here because it is common to make mistakes like assigning the value ‘Left Verge’ to a pipe where it actually crosses the carriageway.  The common mistake that people make here is that they think of where they are standing and the location of the manhole that they are inspecting from and enter this data but in reality, this field refers to the location of the pipe and not the manhole.  Translates to the HADDMS field LOC_TYP_CO.

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This is the height above sea level for the pipe at the upstream end and copies to the HADDMS field UPSTR_INVE.  This is not something that the CCTV operator usually needs to worry about and for this reason, the field is hidden from view when the user is logged into WinCan VX as an Operator and is only visible to users logged in to the application as Admin.  Note for data processors – there is button in the Tools ribbon bar called ‘Calculate Invert Levels’ which will auto populate this field when the chamber cover level is defined in the node data and the pipe depth is defined in the section data.  For this reason, it is not a good idea for operators to enter zero when the level is not known.  It is better to simply leave it blank and then the ‘Calculate Invert Levels’ tool will skip the calculation for this asset because it has no validity.

Downstream Node

Similar to Upstream Node, but for the downstream end.  Relates to HADDMS field SUPP_REFDN.

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