Data Output

After data entry has been completed there are four different ways that the user can publish and share the project data:

• Printing the inspection report to paper directly in the CCTV truck or the office.

• Saving and sending the inspection report as a PDF file.

• Burning or copying project data to external media (CD, DVD, HDD, USB drive) together with a WinCan VX viewer package.

• Uploading the project directly to the cloud and sending a corresponding web link to the end customer.

Printing Inspection Reports

Select the tab command Printing > Printing Panel in the WinCanVX main screen to print the current project data as you prefer. WinCan VX provides up to 26 different types of reports with their own default settings:

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1. This part of the dialog box lists all the report types currently provided by WinCanVX: Open the corresponding main group (1a) for sections, manholes or laterals and select the desired reports for the print-out.

2. This area contains all printing options for the report type selected in the part 1.

3. This part provides the output options for all the selected report pages.

4. Click the print button (4) to either get a preview of the selected reports or to create a corresponding PDF-file. Depending on the project size, this may take several minutes and you can follow the progress in the status bar (5).

Hitting the gear wheel icon left to the printing button (6) gets access to additional printing options which are enabled per default.
In case you want to print the inspection report on header-paper with a pre-printed logo, you will have to disable the option Display header.
Wide contractor logos, that may fill up the major part of the page header, can be printed as soon as the option Display contact data has been disabled:

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A group of sections or single sections can be printed once the radio button Range is selected: you may type "1-10" if you want to set a section group or you may type "1,5,10,12,20", if you want to set a number of single sections. Both spellings can also be combined as shown in the illustration above (7a).
A PDF-file is created only when pushing the printing button after you enabled the option Create document > Document per print job and set the file location (7b):

Printing Inspection Reports with Classification Colours

The inspection report may also be printed with coloured observation text. This requires a damage grade which has to be set in the observation table; use the predefined value list available in the field Grade (1) for that purpose.
Call up the printing dialogue afterwards and select the report type Defect Grade Description (2). Right to the legend text the user may now select a specific colour for the corresponding damage class from a color palette: the corresponding panel opens when pushing the arrow button right to the color field (3).
Always make sure the grade values are taken from the Grade column you prefer (4). This customized classification legend is saved automatically in the background:

Hit the PLUS button to add another defect grade description or click on the REFRESH icon  to reset the customized legend to default.

Printing Inspection Reports with coloured Pipe Graph

Many damage code standards are working with a predefined list for the field SectionType in order to easily define it for each section. Before printing the report the user may also specify colors for different section types in order to have the pipe graph printed in the corresponding color. Call up the printing dialogue, select the report typ Section Inspection (2) and click on the button Section Type Colour (3) below the option list.
The small dialogue box that appears next allows you to assign a color to each section type when clicking on the color cell right to the section text via a color palette:

Printing Inspection Report with Connection Point Symbols

The fields Upstream Manhole and Downstream Manhole in most cases contain information regarding manholes. For pipelines whose upper and lower ends consist on connection points other than manholes it makes sense to have the default grey circle on the inspection report replaced with more meaningful symbols. Please follow the instructions below to get the result you finally prefer.

• Enter the correct term for the upper connection point (e.g. WC, toilet, kitchen drain, roof, road gully etc.) as well as for the lower connection point (e.g. main pipe, collector, catch basin, creek, river, lake, sea etc.) into the corresponding fields Upstream Manhole and Downstream Manhole.

• Next click on the tab command Printing > Print, select the report type Section Inspection (2) in the printing dialogue and click on the button Manhole Symbols(3) below the option list.

• Enter exactly the same term you've already typed into the fields Upstream Manhole and Downstream Manhole again into the text field right to the desired symbol. Mind the orthography of the terms entered and save all descriptions with a click on the green OK-button. Multiple entries within this text field must be separated with a comma (4):

The placeholder "*" (5) allows the software to recognize also parts of the text typed into the fields Upstream Manhole and Downstream Manhole. So the user may count up all connection points of the same type (WC1, WC2, WC3 etc.) and the desired symbol will appear on the inspection report in all these cases.

The illustration below shows a sample preview of an inspection report created by WinCan VX. Within the preview panel you are able to print the report, save it as a PDF file or send it directly via e-mail. If you select a PDF output option, the resulting file will be saved automatically to [Project Folder] > Misc > Docu:

Data Distribution to DVD, USB & HDD

Like in previous versions of WinCan, the project data can be distributed on DVD or any kind of removable disk. Click on the icon Data Exchange > Viewer Export to run this module. A wizard will then guide you through the process to gather the information needed to run the distribution process, and to copy the whole project on one or more disks depending on its size:

Select the drive you want to have the data distributed on and click on Next to continue:

Select the project to be distributed and click Next:

Hitting the button More Options… opens another dialogue box to modify the distribution settings:

1.) Enable this option to get the disc name written into the corresponding inspection field (i.e. INS_VidoeRef).

2.) Clicking this button is going to open a further dialogue for renaming picture and video files. Unskilled users are advised to apply the default presets (2a):

3.) Set or check the path for the temporary image folder. An image of the distributed data is usually created in the folder C:\Users\Public Documents\CDLAB\Common\Images and used for immediate burning with the WinCan burning software.

4.) Set the path of the target folder where the distributed data should be saved as an ISO-file (compressed data package). ISO-files can be burnt later on another computer with any external burning software.

Finally push the green OK-button (5) to confirm all settings and to get back to the Media Distribution Wizard.

WinCan will now show a summary of the options that have been selected and clicking Next again will start the process of creating the intermediate data store in preparation for writing. This may take a few moments depending on the size of the project:

Click OK to engage the burning module, then click on the Burn button to start the burning process:

How the End User Views the Output

The end customer can view the project data delivered on the external data storage medium in WinCan VX or in the WinCan Light Viewer on any Windows computer. Both software applications run automatically in the viewer mode and are entirely license free.
After inserting the disc into the corresponding drive the following Windows message pops up:

A click on the 'Run Program' option will start WinCan VX and show the project data directly in the viewer mode:

The viewer mode automatically blocks all program functions for data entry and processing. If the end customers (e.g. engineers, local water authorities) need to post-process the data, then they will need to purchase a valid WinCan license.

When selecting the option Light within the MediaDistribution wizard the data distribution and burning process runs much faster and finally shows the output in the new application WinCan Light Viewer.
This software is purposely limited to the basic functionalities used to quickly browse through a project. Once the user has slided the DVD into the drive the WinCan Light Viewer is launched rapidly and shows a main interface subdived into three parts:

• The left part contains a video player that shows the video clip of the object (i.e. section, lateral or manhole) which has been selected in the table below:

• The central part shows the inspection report of the currently selected section as a PDF-file.

• The right part shows all the photos taken for the currently selected section.

Note that launching a project distributed on a DVD together with the WinCan Light Viewer is unable to show all kind of data due to the reason mentioned above.

Using WinCan Web

This new service allows the CCTV-companies to upload their survey data to a host server, where it can be downloaded from at any time and on any spot on the world by an end customer. So this procedure is able to fully replace the sending of survey data as paper reports or as a batch of DVDs.

In order to upload a project, open it in WinCanVX and hit the command Tools > Manage Web Projects > Upload Current project (1):

The panel that follows shows the status of the process in the progress bar. Besides that, it provides you a list of all available projects on the local hard drive (2) and those which have already been uploaded (3).

You can thus manage your personal web space directly in WinCanVX. Use the button Log in/Log out (4) to enter the profile data of your personal web space.

Once finished you are informed via e-mail the project has been successfully uploaded to your personal web space.

In order to make uploaded projects accessible for end customers, run WinCanVX and hit the command Tools > Manage Web Projects > Manage Web Projects:

Switch to the tab On Web and VX in the dialogue box that follows (2), select the desired project from the list of recently uploaded projects and hit the paper clip icon (3) in order to create a corresponding link:

The dialogue that follows asks you to create a link (4), set an expiration date (5) and finally send it to the receiver (i.e. e-mail address of the end customer (6)).

Make sure the option Allow Download is checked so the end customer will be able to download the project from WinCan-Web.

The Browse button (3a) right to the Links button allows you to view the picture and video files associated with the WinCan Web project.

The Delete button (3b) on the other hand is used to delete projects from your personal web space: this does not delete them from their source (local) location.