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Setting up WinCan VX for HADDMS Data Entry

There are some key settings that must always be applied inside WinCan VX to ensure good data, which are different to the default settings for WRc inspections and similar. When you load a HADDMS project in WinCan VX, the application will warn you if these settings are not correctly set, but it will not change the options for you.

From the ‘Home’ menu in WinCan VX, click on the ‘Settings’ option on the upper left side.

In the settings panel, uncheck the option ‘Don’t auto create lateral records' in the General → General Settings tab:

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In the Plugins area, select the AutoCreateConnections plugin, set the Naming pattern to DDMS and enable the ‘Execute after lateral auto creation’ option:

This last option simulates the feature that used to happen in WinCan v7 HADDMS where connector node forms would be send down from HADDMS after test upload, which could then be imported into the WinCan v7 project. This doesn’t happen anymore, and the connector nodes are created on the fly inside WinCan VX as you are carrying out the inspections of the pipes and this feature enables the naming convention of these nodes to be CN_[ID of the connected point item]_[SUPP_REF of the current pipe].

Of course, if the connector node already exists in the data, then it can simply be reused and there is no need for a new one. This tool is for creating new connector nodes only.

This option ensure that when you create PDF files from the printing centre, they are recorded in the database (which is particularly useful for manhole cards) and can be added to the ATT_DOCS field in the exported shapefiles. Without this setting active, they will not be added.

This creates the SUPP_REF automatically for new objects. It is important for DDMS to turn off the PLR Suffix auto-naming that is used in WRc projects because there is no defined format for how continuous items should be named. The only thing that matters is that objects must have unique SUPP_REFs in each catchment in HADDMS.

The default WinCan VX setting here is Date and time stamp, which usually works Ok but it is not user-friendly. It doesn’t really look like an asset ID.

The 3rd option here in this list is actually just the same as the 1st one, the date and time stamp, but it has no spaces and no special characters, so it just creates a 17 character string of numbers, which can be used if you wish.

Our recommendation is to use the 2nd option that creates an 8 character random string, unique inside the current WinCan project.

Whichever option you select, the SUPP_REF can always be edited inside the section or lateral form here when you are filling in the data:

Setting up WinCan Map for HADDMS Data Entry

In WinCan Map, we need to ensure that we have the correct node profile for plotting assets:

From the File menu, go to Settings and then in the Settings panel that opens, select the ‘Node Templates’ tab from the options at the top. In here you will see the default option already listed, and all you need to do is create a new line with a name of your choice (I have used ‘DDMS’ in my example) and then select the DDMS_Node.xml file from the dropdown list on the right side. Click the green tick to set.

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