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WinCan WebFlex Quick Start Guide; will guide you through the setup and , configuration and general layout of WinCan WebFlex. This document will also guide you through the creation, publication and sharing of projects that were either, created from scratch within WinCan WebFlex, imported into WinCan WebFlex from WinCan VX or imported from a camera system that has an embedded WinCan Client.
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Now that you've logged back into WinCan WebFlex any changes to your account will have taken affect. The most obvious change will be the amount of available space for your projects
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Assigning
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user
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Accounts the
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“WebFlex” feature
What is the Flex feature
The flex feature gives a user (After the WebFlex featured has been Assigned to them) the ability to create projects from scratch and/or manipulate existing projects that have been uploaded to WebFlex from either WinCan VX or a WinCan Embedded camera systems.
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For each user added to WinCan WebFlex the Company Admin can assign those users to different Account groups, a description of those groups are below.
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End User, view assigned group/s projects or Group projects on Hosts WinCan web account
End User Download, View & download assigned group/s project or Group projects from Hosts WinCan web account
End User (all projects visible). View all projects within the Hosts WinCan Web Account
VX Operator, Upload projects from WinCan VX to Host WinCan Web
Company Operator, View/Share projects for assigned /Download/Upload projects that have been specifically to them or assigned to their group/s and manage their own account settings
Company Operator (all project visible), View/Share all projects and /Download all projects on the company WinCan Web Account, however they can only upload projects that have been assigned specifically to them! They can also manage their account settings
Company Admin, WinCan WebFlex complete site management
The company Admin is the only account that can Give and Take Flex Mode from any user
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An entry in the observation window reflecting the newly created observation. You will also notice a video playing in the video window top right
A pipe graph will now appear with codes that have been entered, the more codes entered the more you will see, flow direction and end node are also present.
you may wish to edit delete or remove the video
Add more observations to this specific section
View, change, delete or edit the picture and draw or add text
Below I have added some lines and circles to the picture that draw your attention to a rather dull patch on the screen that has absolutely no structural of service defects!
Imagine just how effective the Picture drawing tool could be if there was a defect or structural problem located at this point in the below picture that you needed to bring to the customers attention!
Drawing
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Tool for Projects or Sections
The drawing tool, allows you to select a map image, uploaded pictures, PDF or create your own diagram//graphic for a project or specific section using the drawing tool which can better explain/highlight certain aspects of your project or section. This can be done at the Project lever, lower down at the Section level or, at the very lowest level, the observation picture draw and edit screen (please see above) . Project draw and Section Draw are identical in terms of functionality, however the drawing will appear in different location within the PDF report we will generated later.
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Page, Is the name you give the page, if not entered the default is “Page”
Layout, “In a nut shell” Whatever you choose here is going on an A4 page, so have a play and see what happens!
Page Width & Height, I leave this as is and go with the flow. Incidentally, if you have a background image you wish to use on your page (we’ll discuss background images a little later) Draw will ask if you would like to resize your Draw project if you select yes the entire project is resized, if you select no the image is resized and the project stays as it was….again this is your choice so choose wisely!
Calibration Unit, Your draw project can be calibrated in “Meters or Inches” and is measured across the page.
Calibration Width (Incrementation units), you can change this to whatever, default is 100 which means the page is 100meters from edge to edge. If you set calibration width to 10000 the page will be 6.213712 miles from edge to edge.
Please be aware this is a drawing package and is therefor only accurate to within a quatre of a light year plus or minus a few lightyears or so, if the wind is in the correct direction so on and so forth, in short if you need CAD accuracy you will need a copy of CAD. However, if you have the correct PLAN, Background or drawing which has an accurate and clearly visible scale you can get some good results.
Show Grid, puts grid squares on the page
Snap to Grid, Will snap icons to that grid (snap to grid works even if “show grid” is unticked)
Draw Window & features
Below is the WinCan Web draw tool which has many of the features of Windows Paint, and some added extras specific to WinCan Web
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The Page Name you added when creating this document
Draw tool selection tab
Draw Tools Menu tab
Fills and lines colour selection
Section draw (really cool and so easy to use, have a play you’ll work it out)Work Window
Work Window
Sketch tool
The Draw sketch tool below, allows you to freehand draw on the page you have selected
Select sketch
select your colour from the colour management palette. either by selecting,
The colour selection slider at the top of the window, or, selecting the default colours in the colour swatch boxes at the bottom of the colour management tool
The second line changes the shade of your colour
The third line changes how dark the colour is
The forth line turns you colour from solid to transparent
The colour swatch boxes can be added to, deleted from , reset back to the standard or a selection can be taken from the picture (if you hover over the icons in the lower portion of the colour swatch selection tool you get helpful hints
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3 In the main window you can see a finished picture, with a little time and effort you can produce so really effective results!
Above all have a play with draw, create random icons, lines of different colours, attach images, use maps backgrounds and add multiple pages then see how this affects printing
Scoring of Observations
Scoring a project
Your project will have various assets, those asses may have been inspects, and if so, observation may have been made. Some of these observation made may generate a score based on the defect/observation TYPE, LENGTH, SIZE and many other types of criteria, these specific defect codes, will generate a score which will be seen with in the project and project report and set against a scorable code.
(WinCan does not control the scoring. WinCan only applies the scoring template for the regional standard you are coding in to the project and the assets observations, thus obtaining a score for the aforementioned observations)
The below screen shot show a project standard that scores between 1 and 5 for structural and service (this will be different for the different standards)
If your project has Structural or service code that have not been scored (projects that may have been imported from 3rd party systems) you can re-run the scoring process from the PROJECT TAB, SCORING
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Project Report Creation/Generation
Types of Project Reports
When a project has been completed to ”you or your customers” specific requirements a PROJECT REPORT can be created. these project reports can be either active or passive (with or with out weblinks).
Passive Project Reports
Are reports where the project is not shared and therefore WILL NOT have “Active Web links on the report”
To create a Passive report
Create and complete your project, then, create the report using;
Project Tab
Reporting
Generate report
Report is create with no active weblink
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Active Project Reports (reports with hyperlinks)
Are Reports that have active hyperlinks within the report that can be either unlimited or limited in duration.
To create an active report, you will need to first enable or create a Project link for that specific project prior to creating the report.
The “project link” can be either;
Set at a global level (across all projects within your company WinCan Web account) and will add an “Unlimited” duration link for all projects created ‘post’ enabling of this option.
Or, created for each individual project as and when you choose to add one. Individual links take precedent over unlimited links and have custom durations from 1 day to whenever you choose to expire that link.
Create a unlimited project link for all projects.
Prior to printing/generating the report for your project, you will need to share the project (reports created before the project is shared will not have active hyperlinks and will need to be regenerated again after the link has been created).
From the main window select Account setting- Company Profile, slide edit mode to the right, scroll to the bottom of company profile and tick box “Create project link after uploading”, complete the edit by moving the edit button back to the left.
This is a global setting and only needs to be completed once for the entire account, however project that have already been uploaded with reports will need that report regenerated.
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Create a link per project.
Go to the main project Window,
Select the link icon for the specific project,
Select new link,
Select create new link
decide on your options
Select okay to confirm your settings
Once your link has been created you will be able to see the active link against that project by selecting the link button (selection 1 in the above process). When the link icon is selected the below window will appear.
Active till date, can be unlimited of a date
Is this project downloadable by your client, ticked, yes, unticked no
Edit the Active till and downloadable option
Delete link
Open the project from a customer perspective (Very cool feature)
Copy link (copy link and add it to an email)
Email link directly from WinCan Web (great feature but client email spam filters often kill the email before it gets to the client!!!!, use option 6 and copy the link and email it directly or send them an active report with links in)