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1. Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive T Last Msg Ign Position Position Inside Geo Position Position Inside Geo Inside Geo O O e B O 6 z mu 7 Units can be displayed in their Fleet Groups or as a single alphabetic list sorted by Name Other columns that are commonly displayed show information like last known speed heading status and time ofthe last position A full list of columns that can be shown hidden is available by right mouse clicking on a column header and expanding the Columns option Boyce Industries Pty Lid Page 63 Vehicle Summary Commands Vehicle Summary Commands A number of commands are available from the Vehicle Summary panel via a right mouse click menu vehicle Summary vehicle Hdg Kph Last Poll Status Last Msg Mobile 310 NNW OF gt zdays Inactive Out of reach M Mobile 311 M 0 11 06 Inactive Mo response E Mobile 312 EEE EEE 2 BB obie 31 Exclude From Poll List G Moble3ld p equest Pol ASAP OO Mobile 315 EI mobile aja 2end Short Message amp E Mobile 317 Send Extended Message amp mobile 316 w 0 11 58 Inactive Position Polling Include in Poll List If not already included this option will add the vehicle to the poll list Exclude from Poll List If already included in the poll list this option will remove the vehicle from it Request Poll ASAP A poll request will be placed in the RevAdmin queue to be processed as soo
2. Industries Pty Ltd Page 4 Registration Registration Reveloc uses a floating license model where the RevAdmin application controls the number of concurrent RevViewer connections Consequently there is no need for registering installations of RevViewer separately Of course what this also means is that RevViewer can not be run without a valid instance of RevAdmin to connect to Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 5 Getting Started Getting Started Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 6 Installation Installation 1 Insert the supplied CD ROM into the CD ROM drive E 2 Double click on My Computer select the appropriate Drive letter e g F and open the drive Revviewer Set up 1 9 2 0 ex 3 Select the RevViewer Setup 1 9 5 x exe icon and double click to activate the install a mechanism The install program will prompt you through a series of Typical install dialogue screens Select Next to proceed or Cancel to quit the installation procedure Ja Welcome program Will install Reveloc Viewer on your computer pa Welcome to Reveloc Viewer Setup program This Pr Itis strongly recommended that you exit all Windows programs before running this Setup Program Click Cancel to quit Setup and close any programs you have running Click Nest to continue with the Setup program WARNING This program i protected by copyright law and International treaties Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program or
3. P Delete Job P zoom To Job P Allocate Job A Edit Job Allows the user fields associated with the job to be edited Job ID cannot be edited Delete Job Allows a job to be deleted from the list eg if the client cancels the appointment Zoom To Job Recentres the active map on the selected job This can also be achieved by double clicking the left mouse button on the appropriate row Allocate Job Allows a job to be allocated to an active vehicle see below Deallocate Job Allows a job to be deallocated from its associated vehicle This option is only available for allocated jobs which have not been confirmed by the driver with an appropriate status message Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 60 Job Allocation Job Allocation Jobs can be allocated by right clicking the mouse button on the appropriate Job Number and selecting the Allocate Job item from the popup menu small window like the one below will then appear Simply select the vehicle to allocate the job to from the list and click on the Allocate button or just double click on the vehicle name Allocate Job Job being allocated 110205 002 Select vehicle to allocate job to service 536 Service 537 Steve Allocate Cancel The Short Message window will then appear with the appropriate Job details as the default message text eg Short Message Valid characters are spaces 4 lt and0 49 Message 21 characters left mes Each section up to th
4. all three tabs Area Line and Maker If the Use renderer check box is not checked as in the image below the rendering will be based on the settings in the Section tab The Area tab provides settings to apply a color to each of the sections as listed at the bottom of the window The settings in this tab also control the use of patterns within polygons the widths and colors of polygon outlines use of a repeating symbol as a polygon fill use of symbols to represent polygon outlines etc If symbols are used to fill the polygons or to represent lines the Symbol Gap Symbol Rotate and Symbol Size settings control the spacing between the symbol repetitions the rotation each incidence of the symbol and the size in points 1 point 1 72 inch of each incidence of the symbol The Include in legend check box if checked makes a small representation of the rendered symbol appear in the Legend panel under the name of that layer If the Use renderer box is checked the settings in the Renderer tab are used to render the colors and or sizes Vector BNE LOCALITY Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label_4 gt Area Outline Smart size Apply Style width Color SOLID 1 Opt ET Cancel Use renderer Use renderer Bitmap Pattern SOLID Symbol Include in legend Weible Scale 1 75000 Wizard h Ignore shape parameters The Area Smart size sub tab provides access to the Smart si
5. and can be configured from with the Reveloc Administrator program Edit Job Job Information Job Number Scheduled 27 05 05 1421 PM Enter in a unique job number up to 20 alpha and or numeric characters and then fill in each of the fields as appropriate Edit Job Job Information Job Humber 050527 003 Scheduled 48 05 05 09 00 AM Todd Boyce 4 72 Angel St Eight Mile Plains Description Repair washing machine Priority High Normal Low Cancel Click on OK to enter the job in to the system A new line should appear in the Job Summary window and a symbol placed on the map atthe centre ofthe locality Jobs in the Summary are coloured according to priority Red for High Black for Normal and Blue for Low The colour of the job symbol that gets placed in the map will also be determined by its priority but will be determined from settings on the server Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 58 Adding Jobs Jobs EI Job ID Scheduled Entered By Allocated To Client Address 1 Suburb Description pk 050511 001 1105 05 9 42 00 PM Todd Boyce B Runcorn Test 050511 002 11 05 05 8 47 00 PM Todd Boyce Todd C D Euraby Test 050511 003 11 05 05 8 50 00 PM Todd Boyce L Rochedale Test 050511 004 117 05 05 9 16 00 PM Todd Boyce A B Macgregor 050513 001 1305 05 1 36 00 Pe Todd Boyce T D Eight Mile Plains Test 050527 003 287 05 05 9 00 00 AM Todd Boyce Todd Boyee 4 72 Angel St Eight Mile Plains Repair washi
6. appropriate item in the list either double click on it or select it and click on Find to recentre the active map on the selected street Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 49 Using the Map Manager Using the Map Manager Map Manager Map Mode Replay nf Lock Map Associated Units Group Lost Contact Display Go aoa Mame Show Unit Grouping Group IDAS 1 E HM sovce o1 MT E ecc Follow Unit Unit Colour Each workspace you have open during a RevViewer session has its own Map Manager window The window contains several options governing the map mode and which units are displayed Whilst it is possible to float each Map Manager window it is strongly recommended that they be docked to their respective windows and either closed or auto hidden if space is an issue Doing this will help reduce confusion when multiple map windows are left open ta Replay When a map is in Live mode only the current position of each unit is displayed If you want to see historic positions that have been loaded in the Replay Controller switch to Replay mode and ensure that the unit s in question has been associated with the map you wish to replay on If you have multiple maps open then each map can be controlled independently Lost Contact Display The Lost Contact option can be toggled to control whether or not units that we have lost contact with will be displayed on the map at their last known position
7. displays version and build information for the currently installed instance of Reveloc Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 13 Map Toolbar Map Toolbar The Map Toolbar becomes visible when there are one or more open map workspaces It contains the following buttons hati The Zoom Box tool allows the user to zoom in to an area of the map by drawing a box from top left to bottom right and zoom out by drawing a box from the bottom right up to the top left of The Dynamic Zoom tool allows the user to zoom in to an area of the map by clicking on the map and dragging the mouse down The map can be zoomed out by clicking and dragging the mouse up The further the mouse is moved up down the more the map is zoomed in out As the map changes dynamically with the mouse movement this can be quite an effective way of zooming to just the right level 4 The Pan tool is a simple way to reposition the map by clicking on a spot and dragging the mouse around The Add Geofence tool allows the user to add a new polygon to the Geofence layer Geofences are drawn by left mouse clicking on successive points around the area to be geofenced and then right clicking to close the region Once closed a window will pop up and allow you to select the type of geofence and enter in a name and associated parameters if relevant Don t worry if the exact shape of the geofence does not quite reflect what you intended when drawing the outline you can easily fine tune and e
8. file so that other layers can be used in conjunction with the BITStreets data eg OSM derived POI layers If you want to create a new workspace from scratch within RevViewer follow the steps below 1 Select the New from the File menu orthe from the Main Toolbar A window similar to the one below should pop up New Workspace 1 Select starting point for the new workspace C Existing project file dren C BIT Streets Project Coordinate System C Frojected f Geographic C Mone 2 Click Save As to choose name and location for the new workspace Save s care 2 Select the Blank Map option 3 Select the type of Coordinate System that corresponds with your mapping data 4 Click on the appropriate dropdown to open a list of options for the selected system type see below As a guide if your data contains coordinates with Eastings and Northings you should choose something from the Projected list and if it has latitudes and longitudes you should choose one from the Geographic list Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 32 Creating A New Workspace f Blank map with selected Coordinate System Coordinate System 0 Projected Geographic a WS 66 epsg 4760 jalle WGS 72 epsg 4320 WOS 84 epsg 437 E san 1980 epsg 4610 Tacare epsg 4509 Yemen NGNYE epsg 4163 Click Save As to choos off epeg 4310 5 Click the Save As button in and sel
9. zone be it for points line widths outlines etc can be set in terms of points or pixels Size to be used for rendering the highest zone be it for points line widths outlines etc can be set in terms of points or pixels Size for shapes with attribute values that fall outside of the minimum and maximum zones Allows the selection of a set of attributes on which the rendering will be based The field allows a numeric formula to be specified such as to express the sum of the values contained by two or more attributes or even averaging the value of multiple attributes Entering a positive value determines the number of places to the right of the decimal point that figures are presented in when shown in the Legend panel Negative values determine the number of places to the left of the decimal point that are to be displayed Page 42 Renderer Tab Vector BNE ROAD Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label 4 DE First Second Apply Cancel dsible Scale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 301 F dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY_CODE 302 OR HIE dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY_CODE 304 dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY_CODE 205 dsible Seale 1 75000 1 10000 Query HERARCHY CODE 301 visible Seale 1 75000 1 10000 Cuery HIERARCHY CODE 302 i lsible Scale 1 1000000 1 75000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 30 Wizard h Ignore sha
10. P Address of the computer that has 23 Enter Server Computer Name the Reveloc Administrator Please enter in the name of the Server that the Reveloc program running on it and Administrator program I installed on click Next Select the type of database you are using Select Server Database Type This should match what was used when installing Please select which type of database is in use on the server IF the Reveloc Administrator In doubt please ask your Network Administrator If you do not know which option was used please C Use Microsoft SOL Server contact your system f Use Microsoft Access administrator If you choose Microsoft Access then you can skip the next two steps Cancel Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 9 Installation If you opted to use Microsoft SQL Server 23 Enter SQL Server Computer Name then enter the Name or IP Address of the computer Please enter in the name of the Server that contains the running the database By Heveloc SOL Server database default the installer uses the same value entered for DEVSERVER the Reveloc Administrator computer Once you have entered the name of the SQL Server instance you will need to select the type Please select the type of authentication VOL are using IF you of authentication you select SOL Server Authentication jou will be given the PETE opportunity to enter your Username and password when the kodet program i first run authentication will
11. RevViewer User Guide Boyce Industries Pty Ltd RevViewer User Guide Version 1 9 5 Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 1 Introduction Introduction Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 2 Copyright and Licensing Copyright and Licensing RE VELOC RevViewer Distributed by Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Version 1 9 5 O Boyce Industries Pty Ltd 1999 2014 All rights reserved This product was developed using the TatukGIS Developer Kernel TatukGIS 1997 2000 TatukGIS 2000 2014 All rights reserved No part of this publication or associated software may be copied without the written permission of Boyce Industries The LICENSEE may physically transfer the associated software from computer to computer provided that the total number of computers capable of accessing the software does not exceed the number of user licenses granted under the software license agreement You may not modify adapt translate reverse engineer disassemble or create derivative works based on the software without prior written permission This manual and associated software is licensed to the licensee and must not be transferred by any means Termination will be automatic without notice if you fail to comply with this agreement or the software license agreement Upon termination you are required to return or destroy all copies of the Users Guide and associated software Disclaimer Care has been taken in assuring the quality of this product but to the extent pe
12. The image displayed with the forbidden symbol over the ghost indicates that lost contact units will NOT be shown Lock Map s The Lock Map option can be toggled to lock the map with its current extents When locked the map cannot be zoomed into or out nor panned around using the standard tools This can be useful if you want to monitor a site yard and don t want to worry about accidentally adjusting the display by interacting with the wrong window O Associated Units Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 50 Using the Map Manager lt a gt a As Name Group IDAS WT Meorce 01 MH C Meeorce o2 The Associated Units grid contains a list of all units that are associated with the map Apart from the controls detailed in subseguent sections the grid also has a right click option that will bring up the menu below if a unitis right clicked on a ji Name E Group IDAS 250 FC Morel mr fre E BOYCE 02 MER L Remove All In Group Remove All As the menu items suggest various options are available for disassociating units from the workspace ie the item itself all items in the Group the selected item is associated with or all items in the grid Grouping Group By default the Map Manager will display all associated units grouped by their Fleet Group name Show Unit The checkboxes in this column control whether or not the unit is shown on the map By default this box will be ticked meani
13. Y CODE 301 visible Seale 1 75000 1 10000 Cuery HIERARCHY CODE 302 lsible Scale 1 1000000 1 75000 Query HIERARCHY _CODE 3t Wizard h Ignore shape parameters A number of sections have been defined in the above example the point of which is to display the various items of road hierarchy in different styles at different zoom levels Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 41 Renderer Tab Renderer Tab Another rendering strategy is to render by dividing continuous values contained by a selected attribute into a number of zones using the Renderer tab settings The Renderer tab provides the following settings Number of Zones Minimum Value Maximum Value Start Color End Color Default Color Start Size End Size Default Size Render Expression Round Boyce Industries Pty Ltd The number of zones ranges into which the attribute values will be divided when rendering the map The starting lowest value in the lowest zone Shapes with an attribute value less than this will be rendered in the Default colour The final highest value in the highest zone Shapes with an attribute value higher than this will be rendered in the Default colour Colour that the lowest first zone will be rendered with Colour that the highest last zone will be rendered with Colour for shapes with attribute values that fall outside of the minimum and maximum zones Size to be used for rendering the lowest
14. a new mapping workspace for displaying track data on The Open Workspace button allows the user to browse for a Reveloc Workspace rwk file to open The Save button allows the user to save the underlying layer settings for the currently active workspace The Print button allows the currently active map screen to be printed This will only be enabled if there is a map open The Refresh button does an immediate refresh of Job Summary and Vehicle position information The Fleet Manager button brings up the Fleet Manager window for adding editing vehicle details The Message Summary button brings up the Message window containing all outstanding message polling requests for certain types of device The Job Summary button brings up the Job Summary window that contains a list of all outstanding unallocated jobs The Vehicle Summary button brings up the Vehicle Summary window that gives an overview of each vehicle in the poll list The Event Summary button brings up the Event Summary window that displays a list of events that have occurred since program commencement The Geofence Summary button brings up the window that displays a list of the geofences that are stored in the database The Preset Zoom Summary button brings up the window that displays a list of user defined map boundaries The Place Job button brings up a window so that information for a new job can be entered and submitted The About button brings up a window that
15. any portion of it mar result in severe Cl and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the masimum extent possible under an Cancel Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 7 Installation Please read the License JA Agreement carefully select QE the I agree option if you accept the terms and click Clickwrap Software Licence Next to continue License Agreement Br CLICKING ON AGREE BELOW OR BY DOWNLOADING INSTALLING OR MAKING ANY USE OF THE SYSTEM DESCRIBED BELOW YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND BOYCE INDUSTRIES PTY LTD ACH 084 803 458 SUPPLIER 1 DEFINITIONS Licence means the licence granted pursuant to clause 21 Location means the first location at which You install or use or intend to install or use the System Helpdesk Support means provision of instruction in hl agree to the terms of this agreement f do not agree to the terme of this agreement Now select the folder where the RevViewer application should be installed and click Next Setup will install Heveloc Viewer in the following folder 78 Choose Destination Location To install into different folder click Browse and select another folder Tou can choose not to Install Reveloc Viewer by clicking Cancel to exit Setup Destination Folder Cy Boyce Industries A ew iewer Browse Cancel Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 8 Installation Enter either the Computer Name or the I
16. ap you must first associate the vehicle s fleet with the appropriate Workspace This can be done as follows Make sure you can see the Vehicle Manager window and the workspace you wish to associate the Fleet with 1 2 Find the Fleet containing the vehicle you wish to associate with a workspace 3 Click on the Fleet in the Vehicle Manager and while still holding down the left mouse button start dragging it toward the appropriate workspace The cursor should change to a ghosted image representing the Fleet you have selected see the example below Vehicle Ma nager aur DAS mn bt TLE 01 4 Once you are overthe appropriate Workspace release the mouse button to drop the Fleet onto it ef TULIP Lang There are no items bo show in this VIEW The fleet should now appear in the list of vehicles associated with the Workspace s Map Manager Please note that individual vehicles can be associated with a map in a similar manner Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 55 Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Map Manager a x BW te re 2 a I Group IDAS e M eovce o1 M Meoxvce oz Fleet Workspace Association Page 56 Job Dispatch Job Dispatch Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 57 Adding Jobs Adding Jobs Select the Place Job item from the Tools menu or click on the 2 toolbar button The Edit Job window should now appear the Field names fields shown below are purely for demonstration purposes
17. apping information is displayed on screen Layers can be added and removed or even reordered by selecting the layer from the list and clicking on the appropriate button Properties for a layer can also be modified Refer to Setting Up Maps Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 15 Map Toolbar pbl The Replay Control button activates the Replay Controller screen used to replay previously stored or logged tracking points Refer to Replay Controller EE The Load Replay button allows the user to retrieve a file containing previously logged track data Once the Load Replay button has been pressed the system will display an Open dialogue box allowing the selection of a specific file for retrieval Look in les ve dm fe Mobile 2 11 11 2002 lag Mobile 2 11 12 2002 lag Mobile 2 15 01 2003 log Mobile 2 15 11 2002 lag E Mobile 2 17 10 2002 log E Mobile 2 18 11 2002 log 4 Mobile 2 19 11 2002 lag Mobile 2 29 11 2002 lag E T22 02 07 2001 log E T22 26 06 2001 log 122 109 Files of type Log files rel mem log Cancel pa The Load Track from Database button allows the user to retrieve historical data for one or more vehicles Once the button has been pressed it will display a dialog similar to the following 1 Track Range Select the vehicefst Date Range Today kl Simply select one or more vehicles and an appropriate date range then click on OK to load the data Boy
18. ated settings to be modified Show Lost Contact If unticked only vehicles that are currently active will be displayed in open map Vehicles windows Playback Speed Determines the rate at which points will be displayed when using the automatic playback facility of the Replay Controller Vehicle Trails If ticked all vehicle positions for the active session will be displayed otherwise only the current position of each vehicle will be displayed when in Replay mode Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 26 Street Searches Street Searches General Configuration Device Types Symbols vehicle Display street Searches Map Display Street Table Configuration D Mipps A ey ewer Streetbetup inl 18 C Use simple single area configuration Road Table Road Mame Field Road Suburb Field Suburb T able Suburb Name Field Cancel The Street Searches section needs to be set up in order to facilitate RevViewer s Find Street functionality State Based Config Road Table Road Name Field Road Suburb Field Suburb Table Suburb Name Field Use this option if you have road and suburb information split up into multiple areas eg by State Name of the street road layer that will be searched Name of the field in the Road Table that contains the Street s name Name of the field in the Road Table that contains the appropriate suburb if present Name of the layer that contains Suburbs for use in refi
19. ce Industries Pty Lid Page 16 Docking Windows Docking Windows A number of Reveloc Viewer s controller windows can be docked to the frame of the main window These include e Vehicle Manager e View Manager Information Window Replay Controller Job Summary Event Summary Vehicle Summary In order to change a window s docking position click and hold down the left mouse button in the appropriate window s Title bar and start to move the window A number of docking control helpers will appear on the screen As you move the window onto one of these it will highlight the portion of the screen where the window will be docked if you release the left mouse button Some windows also allow you to dock the window over the top of an existing one A new tab will be added to the window when this occurs To do this simply use the centre part of the control if available An example showing the Event Summary window about to be docked as a tab in the Job Summary window is illustrated below Press the Ctrl key to prevent docking Although the docking mechanism is quite sophisticated it is also relatively easy to use so feel free to experiment a little in order to get the perfect layout for maximum productivity Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 17 Configuring RevViewer Configuring RevViewer Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 18 Connection Options Connection Options The Connection Options window can be accessed from the Connection Opti
20. d when the map is being moved with the second being performed once movement has stopped long enough for the rendering process to be completed It is recommended that this box be ticked for large or complex layers Tick to force labels to be drawn on top of all map layers in the project Value in the range 0 to 100 A value of 0 corresponds to full transparency ie invisible while a value of 100 corresponds to no transparency ie full visibility It may be better to think of this value as an Opacity percentage Value in the range of 0 to 100 that determines the degree to which the background colour of the layer is added to the colour of the objects in it useful for viewing anaglyphs Page 37 Layer Tab Vector BNE ROAD Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label_4 gt Parameters Into Apply Path E ABIT Streets2007 02 LDBrsbaneBNE ROAD TAB Cancel Mame Caption BNE ROAD BNE ROAD Projection Select iw Cached Paint iw Labels on top Incremental Paint Transparency Addition 100 Wizard The Layer Info tab provides provides information about the format of the layer a field for user comments about the layer and CodePage options for situations requiring a translation between language character sets eg Greek Cyrillic Arabic etc Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 38 Layer Tab Vector BNE ROAD Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label 4 DE Parame
21. dit it after it has been created and you have the rough shell to work with p a The Add Preset Zoom tool allows the current map extents to be saved in the database against a user friendly name This boundary can then be reverted to in the future by selecting the appropriate item in the Preset Zoom Summary window Add Preset Zoom Name Description User Name koddb aja The Add Feature tool allows symbol object s to be placed on the map at the point clicked This is useful for adding in features like client locations m The Edit Geofence Feature tool allows the user to edit an existing geofence feature from the appropriate layer Once a geofence has been selected left clicking within its bounds points can be moved inserted or removed as follows Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 14 Map Toolbar Move Left click on the point to be moved and drag it to the new location Insert Left click on the section of the boundary that you want the point inserted into and drag the vertex to its appropriate location Remove Double click on an existing point to delete it from the geofence boundary Editing can be finished by right clicking which will popup a window with geofence feature information that can also be edited if desired Features can be deleted by clicking on them and hitting the Delete key a The Information tool allows the user to view position information for a vehicle if a track point is at the
22. e SQL Server database typically just the name of the PC SQL Server is running on Log on information Select the type of authentication to use when connecting to the RevServer database If not using Windows NT integrated security then a User Name and Password will need to be supplied Database Location If not using SQL Server ie using Microsoft Access then this field should contain the full path to the RevServer mdb database file The easiest way to select this is via the button to the right of the edit field Unless a redundant server system is being used the Secondary tab should have all of its fields left blank Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 21 General Configuration General Configuration The General Configuration window can be accessed from the General Configuration item on the Tools menu Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 22 Device Types General Configuration Vehicle Display Street Searches Map Display Device Types Symbols Communications Devices Used Place tick in the bos next to each class of device pou Will track with the software l Emcom URM Board Hexion Radio Modern 2000 Radio Modern Simoco SRMYDODD zeres Statue Automator IF Gateway Status Automator kap Status Automator Mason SMS Tait T 2000 seres Trunked Tait T8000 serier VLL 30 Radio Modern Gatekeeper Terminal E F F F F F F M M 505 Alert Settings W Reguire operator response for 505 Boyce Industri
23. e next comma will be sent as a separate message Bear in mind that a maximum of five messages of 25 characters each can be received by the mobile radios Once you are happy with the message text click on the Send button WOU NEUES AUD U9 3 KUU FM I 000 pope A Gi Macgregor 050527 003 28 05 05 00 00 AH Todd Boyce Todd Todd Boyee 4 72 Angel St Eight Mile Plains Repair washing machir The allocation request will be sent to the server and the row for the job in the summary window coloured differently until the allocation has been confirmed by the driver Once confirmed the item will be removed from both the list and the map Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 61 Display Summarys Display Summarys Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 62 Vehicle Summary Vehicle Summary A brief summary of the status of each active vehicle can be displayed by clicking on the ki button of the toolbar The layout of this window is dependent on a combination of the Event settings configured by RevAdmin and grid settings that may have been previously updated When not using user defined events the window will look similar to the one below lp Col Mame A Heading Speed Last Poll ia Group E Ea Test E l Group IDAS sovet N sovceo2 oN E Group SanJose acr 130 NME eov 024 ESE G sovio wsw DO sov M m 29 100 hever gt 1 week 21 52 1 week 1 week gt 1 week gt 2 days Status Inactive Status 0 Ish OM
24. ect a filename and location to save the new workspace to 6 Click on OK You should now see a blank map window with an empty Map Manager panel in Replay mode and a Legend panel with several default layers as illustrated below h Vehicle Current h Vehicle Track wl c 0 Ne Channel Ps Ho Ga AE Speed Limited ats Yard ite iw User Feature T Right click on the empty area of the Legend panel and select the Add Layer menu item p site W User Feature Add Layer Remove Highlighted Layer Welw Layer Extents 8 You should now see a standard File Open dialog similar to the one shown below Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 33 10 11 Creating A New Workspace Look ir Base Sel d E Bri osm au roads major TAB 2 RailLines TAB My Recent Railstations TAB Documents Roads TAB 4 Gi Urban TAB Desktop A Contours TAB Drainage TAB amp Lakes TAB amp Lacalities TAB osm au natural tab My Documents 5 osm au poitab amp osm au roads local TAB hel Computer as File name AustBounds 100K TAB My Network Files of type Vector files don def shp tab Cancel FI Acer Open s read only Browse for the layer you wish to add using the above window and then click Open to add it to the Legend The list of currently supported vector formats include Microstation dgn AutoCAD dxf ESRI shp and Mapinfo tab In addition the followin
25. en tick this box Primary Monitor If ticked RevViewer will sound the Emergency Alert and flash an orange screen if the connection to the Primary server is lost see Emergency Alerts section for configuring the audio file to use Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 20 Primary amp Secondary Tabs Connection Options General Primary Secondary Local Settings Local Part Server Settings Server Address 152 160 0 2 Server Port 160 iM Use SOL Server SOL Server DEVSERVER Enter information to log on to the server f Use Windows NT Integrated Security C Use a specific user name and password User Mame Password Server Database Location p Server Settings Primary amp Secondary Tabs The Primary and Secondary tabs are identical and broken up into two sections Local Settings Allocate Local Port Automatically Tick this box if you want RevViewer to automatically assign a port for the duration of the session If this box is cleared then a Local Port number will need to be set Local Port Port number to use for connections to the server This field is disabled if the Allocate Local Port Automatically option is ticked recommended Server Address Name of the Server PC that RevAdmin is running on Server Port The port that the Server PC is listening on for connections Use SQL Server Tick this box if you are using Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server If used the instance name of th
26. erting Monitoring Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 71 Emergency Alerts Emergency Alerts If RevViewer is to be used for emergency purposes then a number of configuration steps that are not a part of the normal user interface need to performed By default when an SOS is received from RevAdmin and RevViewer is set to require operator responses the screen will flash red and the details of the alerting vehicle will be displayed This visual alert can be supplemented with an audible one as well as the display of an Emergency Procedure document when the alert is acknowledged This can be set up as outlined below Please close RevViewer before making the changes 1 Locate a wav file that you wish to use for the alerts Please ensure its duration is around 3 seconds or less as it is designed to looped on a regular interval 2 Create an rtf document you wish to use for the Emergency Procedure 3 Copy the files to the folder where RevViewer is installed 4 Using Notepad or a similar text editor open the RevViewer ini file located in the Windows folder 5 Navigate to the Configuration section 6 Find the AlertFile entry and type in the full path to the wav file eg AlertFile C Program Files Boyce Industries RevViewer Siren wav 7 Now find the ProcedureFile entry and type in the full path to the rtf file eg ProcedureFile C Program Files Boyce Industries RevViewer Emergency rtf 8 Save the ini file and close NotePad Boyce Industr
27. es Pty Ltd Device Types The Device Types tab is split into two sections Communications Devices Used Tick the box for each type of device you want to be made available for viewing monitoring Please note that any changes to these settings will require the RevViewer program to be restarted in order to ensure correct functioning of the application SOS Alert Settings Ticking the Require operator response for SOS box will result in the following behaviour when an SOS alert is received 1 Flashing red screen with alerting vehicles details and location 2 Audible alarm sounded if set 3 Emergency Procedure document displayed when flashing screen is cleared if set Please see the Emergency Alerts section for details on configuring the audible alarm and Emergency Procedure document Page 23 Symbols Symbols The Symbols section of the General Configuration window allows the user to customise the display of on screen job and vehicle positions Current Moving Current Stopped Replayed Positions Rotate Symbols Rotation Offset Job Symbol Feature Symbol General Configuration Vehicle Display Street Searches Map Display Device Types Symbols Vehicles Moving C t Sad Rotation offset deg fr Heplayed positions A Current ae Rotate symbols with heading Iw Jobs User Features Job Feature b Spmbol Symbol Simbol colours shown are not representative of the final resul
28. g raster file formats are also supported ecw jpg and tif After you have selected the layer an entry with its name will appear in the Legend panel and the layer will be added to the map if AustBounds 1 00K h Vehicle Current l Geofence Continue to add layers as required By default layers are added to the top of the Legend Typically though you will want the Vehicle Current layer that holds the current position of each vehicle to be at the top It can be moved back here by simply clicking on it and dragging it over the top of or even above the topmost entry in the list h Vehicle Current Geofence at Channel at Ne Go Speed Limited am nat Ya a Yard te Site We User Feature h AustBounds 100K Once you have finished adding layers click on the Save item of the File menu or the Save button on the toolbar Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 34 Creating A New Workspace Information on how to configure the display of objects in individual layers can be found in the next section Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 35 Configuring Layer Properties Configuring Layer Properties Each layer has a number of properties that can be configured to customise the overall appearance of the maps used in RevViewer Changes to layer properties are only stored in the underlying map project ttkgp file The underlying map data is not altered in any way Layer properties can be viewed maintained by double cl
29. ggled via the Replay Controller button Replay Controller vehicle BOY 130 MP Wi bi 4i ib Show All SS Export 9 Google Map Marne Local Latitude Longitude Speed Direction PosType E H BOY L30 Mon 13 Oct 08 15 00 56 26 691583 153 045713 0 M F 2 BOY 130 Mon 13 0ct 08 15 01 57 26 609267 15304634 44 MME R 3 B0Y 150 Mon 13 Oct 08 18 10 27 26 6073543 153 0493652 16 ME F 4 BOY 130 Mon 13 Oct 08 15 11 50 26 690923 153 045 765 51 SS F 5 BOY 130 Mon 13 Oct 08 18 54 18 26 691617 153 045732 0 M F 6 BOY 130 Mon 13 Oct 08 15 55 20 26 692995 153 042845 44 Soy F 7 BOY 130 Mon 13 Oct 08 18 36 21 26 699053 153 044558 0 55E R 6 BOYV 130 Mon 13 Oct 08 18 55 25 26 69905 153 044557 0 55E F ri Bars 1 an Mian 1 ee MR 19325174 76 SKOONE 152 NdadeET M ZZE oO The image above shows the various components of the Replay Controller including controls as follows Vehicle Drop Down Boyce Industries Pty Ltd If multiple vehicles are loaded then the drop down allows the grid to be filtered by either one or all vehicles Move the current position back to the start of the grid Automatically step through the grid Stop stepping through the grid Move the current position to the end of the grid Move the current position to the previous grid row Move the current position to the next grid row Show all loaded grid positions for the specified vehicle s on any maps in Replay mode that ha
30. gram commenced 3 Please note that the event grid is only designed to retain the five hundred most recent events Once this limit is reached the first fifty items are deleted x All items can also be deleted by clicking on the button By default the Event Summary automatically scrolls so that the most recent event is always visible in the grid If you wish to scroll back and view past events then click on the lock button to change the state so that scrolling is enabled Once you have finished reviewing the events simply click on the button to reautomate the recent event tracking Types of events STATE Program Commencement Server Connection Disconnection EVENT Lost Contact Speeding Proximity and Stoppage alerts ALARM Reserved for future use NOTIFY Refresh events generated from the server for jobs vehicles etc ATTN These events are coloured red and indicate a failure has occurred that may require attention eg Sending Job details fails REQUEST Requests made to the server for job allocation and messaging Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 66 Message Summary Message Summary Under Development Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 67 Track Analysis Track Analysis Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 68 Replay Controller Replay Controller Once historical information has been retrieved either from the database or log files it can be reviewed using the Replay Controller The display of the controller window can be to
31. hing StateX Contains the value corresponding to the field that is returned for a state from the Country layer as used in the State section below State Section s For each state that vehicles are going to be operating in a separate section needs to be set up with section headings as follows State State Name where State Name corresponds to the entry in the Country table Each section then needs to have two entries RoadTable and LocalityTable which specify the location of the Road and Locality layers respectively Please note that all files must be in a MapInfo ESRI shape vector format Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 30 Setting Up Maps Workspaces Setting Up Maps Workspaces Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 31 Creating A New Workspace Creating A New Workspace In RevViewer mapping workspaces are generally built around a Tatuk project file By default these files have a ttkgp extension The project file contains information about which layers are to be displayed and when as well as the presentation style of geographical objects within the individual layers Project files can be created using the free Tatuk GIS Viewer software available for download from the Tatuk GIS web site or they can be created from within RevViewer itself BITStreets data for Australian users is stored in a bitsts file and if available can be selected using the third option of the New Workspace window This option also has an accompanying project
32. icking on the appropriate layer in the Legend panel The Properties window has a number of Tabs for adjusting various aspects of the layer display Each is explained in a section to follow Note Some details have been copied directly from the Tatuk Viewer help file Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 36 Layer Tab Layer Tab The Layer Parameters tab provides provides the following settings fields Path Name Caption Projection Cached Paint Incremental Paint Labels On Top Transparency Addition Boyce Industries Pty Ltd The path to the file containing the selected layer The name of the file containing the selected layer The name for the layer as it is displayed in the Legend panel The geographic coordinate system of the selected layer currently inactive Tick if cached layer painting is required Cached painting means that all drawing is done off screen first and then the map image displayed up on completion This helps improve performance and reduce screen flicker Leaving the option unticked will mean that the repaint will be seen on a vector by vector basis Tick if incremental layer painting is required The mapping engine currently renders a map in two phases The first draft phase essentially draws all simple vector geometry while the second phase draws the final presentation features like charts labels and complex fill styles If incremental painting is turned on only the first phase is performe
33. ies Pty Ltd Page 72 Contact Us Contact Us Please direct all initial correspondence and support requests to the dealer you purchased your system from If you need to contact us directly then please use the contact information below Emailing support is the preferred method of contact Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Unit 10 2 St Martins Terrace Buderim Qld Australia 4556 Telephone 61 7 5453 4833 Facsimile 61 7 3102 6258 Email support Qboyceindustries com au Web www boyceindustries com au Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 73
34. ktop Icon or Clicking on the Start button selecting Programs then Boyce Industries and selecting the Reveloc Viewer item This will activate the software and present the Main screen from which all functions are activated Sy RevViewer 0 rwk 0 Eile view Window Tools Track Help FK Sth gt GOGIAAS A WAL GIAZO I CEH Oe He BOYCE 02 BUDERIM Ws Yard vehicle Summary A x Event Summary Description EVENT 2012 06 06 15 52 35 BOYCE 02 Invalid GPS Position Received a Poll Col Name ai Heading Speed Last Poll Status Last Msg Ign REQUEST 2012 06 06 15 52 43 BOYCE 02 Requested vehicle colour ch JAM re 0 Never Inactive Position EVENT 2012 06 06 15 52 43 BOYCE 02 vehicle restyle request proc Ha Group IDAS NOTIFY 2012 06 06 15 52 43 BOYCE 02 Vehicle restyled JOH sove N Iweek StatusO Position EVENT 2012 06 06 16 07 37 BOYCE 02 Invalid GPS Position Received gt O HE sove N 16 21 IGMONM Inside Gen EVENT 2012 06 06 16 22 40 BOYCE 02 Regained GPS after 149 20 35 Group T8000 Test Fleet NOTIFY 2012 06 06 16 22 40 BOYCE 02 Normal Position 4 1 Todd 32 N 1week Inactive Inside Geo O Ready Cursor 26 6894859 153 045178 Scale 1 3553 r O Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 12 Main Toolbar Main Toolbar The Main Toolbar is always visible and usually docked and contains the following buttons t i i om 9 tal Pa The New Workspace button allows the user to create
35. lea Marker Label_4 gt Area Outline Smart size Apply pi Cancel Field 0 A Size N Include in legend Weible Scale 1 75000 Wizard h Ignore shape parameters A customised sample of the Line and Marker tabs are shown below Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 45 Area Line amp Marker Tabs Vector BNE ROAD Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label 4 DE Line Outline Smart size Apply Width Style Color SOLID h 4 pit Cancel Use renderer Use renderer Bitmap Pattern son Symbol h Include in legend dsible Scale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 301 dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 302 OR HIE dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 304 dsible Seale 1 10000 Cuery HIERARCHY CODE 305 dsible Scale 1 75000 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 301 visible Scale 1 55000 1 10000 Ouery HIERARCHY CODE 302 lsible Scale 1 1000000 1 75000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 30 Wizard h Ignore shape parameters Vector BNE FEATURE Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label 4 gt Marker Outline Smart size Apply Style Size Color TRIANGLEDO 6 0pt 0 Cancel Use renderer Use renderer Bitmap Pattern sou zl Symbol E T Include in legend sible Scale 1 10000 Wizard h Ign
36. n as the appropriate base device becomes available Messaging Provided that the base device and network infrastructure support a short messaging service text messages can be sent to vehicles via the Vehicle Summary window Send Short Message Use for messages up to 25 characters in length Send Extended Use for sending longer messages where supported Character limit depends Message on mobile hardware Once a Short Message option is selected a message entry window will be displayed From this window a new message can be sent and saved to the list of predefined messges via the disk icon or a predefined message selected and edited before being sent Messages in the Predefined list can be removed by highlighting the appropriate entry and pressing the cross button Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 64 Vehicle Summary Commands Short Message Predefined Messages ko to load location x Head to Wetherill Park Return to base Message valid characters are spaces 4 4 and 0 9 25 characters left mes Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 65 Event Summary Event Summary The Event Summary window contains a time stamped list of events that have occurred since program commencement It can be displayed by selecting the Event Summary item from the View menu or clicking on the toolbar button Event Summary Ed Description w STATE 2007 07 08 22 57 52 Connected to server Primary STATE 2007 07068 22 57 52 Pro
37. ng machine Di EIGHT milla 050527 003 TL As you can see from the illustration above the Job ID is used as the label on the map If the locality Suburb cannot be found then you will see a message similar to the one below RevViewer At this point you can either click on Yes to continue without placing a Job click on No to abort the Job adding process or Cancel to go back to the Edit Job screen and check the spelling of the locality Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 59 Job Summary Job Summary The Job Summary contains a gridded list of all of the unallocated jobs that are stored in the database on the server It can be displayed by selecting the Job Summary item from the View menu or by clicking on the CE toolbar button Job ID Scheduled Entered By Allocated To Client Address 1 Suburb b 050511 001 11 05 05 6 42 00 FM Todd Boyce B Runcor 050511 002 11 05705 8 47 00 Pe Todd Boyce Todd C D Kuraby 050511 003 11 05 05 8 50 00 Pe Todd Boyce C Rochedale 050511 004 1705 05 9 18 00 Pe Todd Boyce B Macgregor 050513 001 13 05 05 1 36 00 PM Todd Boyce T D Eight Mile Plains The grid contains several fixed columns Job ID Scheduled Entered By and Entered On along with one or more columns as configured by the Reveloc Administrator The grid has a right click menu attached to the Job ID cell from which a number of options can be taken Job ID Scheduled Edit Job
38. ng the unit will be shown when a unit group is associated with the map Follow Unit s The checkboxes in this column control whether or not the unit will be followed When the Follow box for a unitis ticked any time a new position is received for that unit the map will be updated to ensure the unit remains visible Unit Colour Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 51 Using the Map Manager This column simply shows the default colour of the associated unit If particular event conditions have been activated for the unit eg Proximity Stationary Lost Contact etc then the relative event colour will be used instead Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 52 Vehicle Manager Vehicle Manager Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 53 Vehicle Manager Overview Vehicle Manager Overview All devices that will be used in conjunction with Reveloc Viewer are available from the Vehicle Manager list Details for each Fleet and its vehicles are stored in a database on the server and can only be modified from within the Reveoc Administrator The Vehicle Manager is a docking window and can be accessed from either the i toolbar button or from the Vehicle Manager item on the View menu An example of this dialog is shown below vehicle Manager a BOY CE 01 ig BOYCE 02 T 8000 Test Fleet Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 54 Fleet Workspace Association Fleet Workspace Association In order to display positions for a vehicle on a m
39. ning the street search Name of the field in the Suburb Table that contains the Suburb s name Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 27 Map Display Use Geofences Use Features Quick Zoom Scale Cursor Display SOS Coordinate Display Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Map Display General Configuration Device Types Symbols Vehicle Display Street Searches Map Display Layer Options W Use Features orn Quick Zoom Scale Factor 1 7600 Cursor Display Format Eastings Morthingz if available 505 Coordinate Display Coordinate System Select GDA MGA zone 56 epeg 20356 Format Eastings Northings if available Cancel Tick this box if the Geofence layer is to be displayed on each map Tick this box if the User Features layer is to be displayed on each map Scale factor to use when selecting Quick Zoom from the View menu Format to use in the status bar for the cursor position The Eastings Northings option will display metres based information if the underlying coordinate system used by the high level workspace project supports it Cursor Display Format castings Northings it available Decimal Degrees COS Cod Degrees Decimal Minutes Degrees Minutes Seconds Bere Castings Northirngs if available Coordinate System and coordinate display format for use on the flashing SOS Alert screen Pressing the Select button will bring up the window below from which the appro
40. ons item on the Tools menu If you select the Connection Options item when a connection to the server is already open you will be asked if you wish to close it RevViewer DO You are currently connected to the server and cannot make changes to the connection settings unless you First es disconnect Do you wish to disconnect now The window has three Tabs which are explained in the following two sections e General Tab Primary 8 Secondary Tabs Once you have entered in the appropriate information click on OK You will then be prompted with a window asking if you want to make a connection to the server then and there ReyViewer 2 Connect to server mom If you do wish to try and establish the connection with the new settings then click on Yes otherwise click No Notes 1 Once you have entered in the appropriate connections settings RevViewer will automatically use them next time the program is started 2 An event item will be added to the Event Summary window for each successful connection disconnection Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 19 General Tab General Tab Connection Options General Primary Secondary General Current User toddb i Primary Monitor Cancel The General tab displays the name ofthe user that is currently logged in and has two checkbox options Use Secondary If RevViewer is reguired to connect to a second copy of RevAdmin for redundancy Server Facility purposes th
41. ore shape parameters Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 46 Label Tab Label Tab The Label tab provides a number of settings to control what information is presented and how each label appears as far as size colouring outline font etc Width Height Color Use Renderer Bitmap Pattern Font Field Value Include in legend Visible Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Maximum label length Should be set to a value that is likely to present sufficient information contained by the selected attribute Maximum label height The background colour of each label If checked the label colours are rendered based on settings in the Renderer tab Provides a mechanism for placing symbols or images as labels Provides a mechanism for placement of a background pattern inside the labels Option to control the font colour size bold face underlining and other options relating to the presentation of label text Used to select the attribute from which information is to be presented in the labels Allows a formula to be specified in order to provide complex labels with multiple fields or HTML Multi Field values start with the character and are formatted as follows any text lt specifier field name gt any text eg Site n lt 25S SITE_NAME gt nArea lt 8 2F SITE_AREA gt sqm Valid HTML markers are tags like lt B gt lt STRONG gt lt I gt lt U gt lt BR gt lt HR gt lt FONT gt lt NBSP gt am
42. ow feature which positions labels parallel to line features and automatically repositions each label for the best position relative to the line after each map move This tab also includes settings to preclude overlapping labels and duplicate labels with line features If multiple sections are in use the label set up must be performed separately for each section Ensure that the correct section is highlighted in the box at the bottom of the Label tab when entering the label set up Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 48 Finding Streets Finding Streets Select the Find Street item from the Tools menu or click on the E button on the toolbar Find Street Street To Find Region ag Street Name Pe Suburb Pe Matching Addresses mes First select the Region from the drop down list and then enter in the Street Name you are looking for eg ANGEL ST and click Find If there is only one match then the map will be be automatically updated otherwise if there are multiple matches then the Matching Addresses list will be populated Find Street Street To Find Region OLD Street Name ANGEL Suburb Matching Addresses ANGEL STREET CABOOLTURE ANGEL STREET EIGHT MILE PLAINS ANGELA BOULEYSRD SOLDIERS HILL ANGELS COURT ANGELA COURT CRANBROOK ANGELS CRESCENT CLEVELAND ANGELA ROAD BURPENGART ANGELA HUSD ROCKHAMPTON REGIONAL DE 43 Akhi CCI a ONAN DAPEFUAKJDTMORIDCEIMNRKINAN Mp rea Once you have found the
43. p amp Alt amp gt amp nbsp eg Name lt hr gt lt b gt LocalTime lt b gt Determines whether or not the label style will appear in the Legend panel Controls whether or not labels should be displayed for the selected section Page 47 Label Tab Vector BNE ROAD Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label Chart 4 OK Label Outline Smart sze Position Apply Height Width Color 5 Opt 5 Opt Cancel Use renderer Bitmap Pattern Font TRANSPAREN Arial Value STREET NAME STREET sible Scale 1 10000 sible Scale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 301 Wsible Scale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 302 OR HIE sible Scale 1 10000 Query HERARCHY CODE 304 sible Scale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 305 visible Seale 1 75000 1 10000 Cuery HIERARCHY CODE 301 lsible Scale 1 75000 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY CODE 302 Wizard h Ignore shape parameters The Label Outline sub tab provides settings to turn on off and control the appearance of label outlines The Label Smart size provides a setting to turn off labels at any given zoom level for any shapes rendered less than a specified size Use of this feature can result in faster map rendering and reduce map clutter The Position sub tab provides settings to control the positioning of labels relative to the location of the associated shape This includes the Foll
44. pe parameters The Wizard button which appears at the bottom of the Renderer tab and other tabs within the layer properties control opens the Rendering Wizard window The Wizard provides time saving short cuts to much more quickly render a vector map layer based on the unique values or value ranges of a selected attribute One short cut is that the Wizard automatically determines the minimum and maximum values necessary to include all the shapes in the layer Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 43 Area Line amp Marker Tabs Area Line amp Marker Tabs The Area tab provides the settings to control how the sections defined in the Section tab or the zones defined in the Renderer tab are to be rendered on the map If the selected layer is of a type that contains only line shapes this tab is titled Line If the layer is a point or multi point layer the tab is titled Marker Similary if the layer only contains polygons then an Area tab will be presented The setting options are similar with each geometric type but a bit different to reflect the geometric differences For example in a line layer a symbol would be rendered repeatedly to represent the line feature whereas in a points layer the symbol would be rendered one time for each point CAD style DXF or DGN files can contain vector polygons lines and points all in a single map file layer Therefore if the selected layer contains a DXF or DGN file the visual layer property window can contain
45. priate Coordinate System can be selected Page 28 Map Display Select Coordinate System Coordinate System amp Projected 60494 MGA zone 56 epsg 28356 Geographic Default 45584 Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 29 External File Configuration External File Configuration The Street Setup file format mentioned in the Street Searches section is broken into three main areas Fields Files and State Details FIELDS LocalityTableLocality L OCALITY NAME RoadTableStreet STREET NAME RoadTableLocality L OCALITY FILES NumStateFiles 2 State1 NSW State2 QLD State NSW Road Table C Program Files Boyce Industries RevAdmin MapData NSW NSW_ROAD tab LocalityTable C Program Files Boyce Industries RevAdmin MapData NSW NSW_LOCALITY tab State QLD Road Table C Program Files Boyce Industries RevAdmin MapData QLD QLD_ROAD tab Locality Table C Program Files Boyce Industries RevAdmin MapData QLD QLD_LOCALITY tab Fields Section This area contains three entries corresponding to the field names that will be looked up in the various mapping layers LocalityTableLocality Field in the Locality Table s that contains the name of the locality RoadTableStreet Field in the Road Table s that contains the name of the street RoadTableLocality Field in the Road Table s that contains the name of the locality Files Section NumStateFiles Number of separate state files to be loaded for street locality searc
46. rmitted by the law Boyce Industries Pty Ltd does not accept responsibility for errors and shall not be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage including but not limited to special incidental consequential or other damages arising from the provision of this product to the user Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 3 General Introduction General Introduction Welcome to the Reveloc system from Boyce Industries Boyce Industries provides both customised and off the shelf style software and mapping solutions for tracking vehicles fitted with a GPS and appropriate communications hardware The system provides basic functionality that allows one or more vehicles to be tracked on one or more maps via a continuous polling or position on demand mechanism You should be generally familiar with the use of Microsoft Windows XP or later and some database networking knowledge may be required if you are wanting to install maintain the system without assistance This User Manual will detail the various operational functions of the client side of the Reveloc system In order to use the RevViewer software you should already have a server configured with the Reveloc Administrator software As an overview the User Manual is broadly divided into the following Installation Getting Started Configuring RevViewer Setting Up Maps Workspaces Map Manager Vehicle Manager Job Dispatch Display Summarys Track Analysis Boyce
47. selected location and or any attribute information for objects at that geographic location Information Field Value Layer OLD ROAD HOSDNAME ESPLANADE HOADTYFE 303 SURFALET 3 GRODUNDRE 4 LOCALITY_1 TOOGOOM LOLALITY 2 GODODNS amp The Vehicles At Location tool can be used to display a list in the Information Window of all vehicles at a particular location This is handy in situations where several vehicles are all in close proximity of each other and can t all be labelled clearly The tool allows a centre point to be clicked and the mouse then dragged out to define a circular region All vehicles falling within the circle will be included in the Information list a The Measure tool allows distances between map locations to be calculated by clicking on subseguent points on the map it The Upload Geofences button provides a mechanism for uploading geofence boundaries from an appropriately formatted file into the geofence database The Find Street button allows a street and suburb combination to be entered Once an exact match is identified the map will be zoomed to this location ld The Fit button allows you to zoom back out to the entire extent of the current workspace eg Brisbane North America world E The Map Manager button is used to show hide a list of vehicles that are currently associated with a particular map 4 The Legend button is used to activate a map s Legend panel which is used to control how m
48. ters Info za File nformatione viapinfo Native Format TABMAP Cancel User comment From CodePage To CodePage 11252 11250 Wizard If the layer is a raster image the File Information box will display the number of pixels in each row columns and the number of colour bits used by the image Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 39 Section Tab Section Tab One rendering strategy is to use the settings under the Section tab to segment the contents of the map layer into sections defined by attribute query statements and or scale ranges Zoom levels The parts of the map layer defined by each section then be rendered in specific ways at specified scale levels or not rendered at all some specified scale levels This is one way to control map clutter such as by turning off certain map feature or labels at given zoom levels Attribute query statements are defined in the Render if match query field and the visible scale range is set with the Minimum scale and Maximum scale settings The formulas for each defined section are listed at the bottom of the Section tab If sections are not used all the content of the map layer will be contained by a single section named Visible Visible Minimum Scale Maximum Scale Render if match query Legend Ignore shape parameters Boyce Industries Pty Ltd If unchecked shape visibility will be turned off in accordance with the parameters specified by the selection in the sec
49. tion list in the lower part of the window The minimum scale level ie Zoomed out for the section selected in the section list Use the Current button to fill with the current map s scale level The maximum scale level ie Zoomed in for the section selected in the section list Use the Current button to fill with the current map s scale level If desired enter a query to define the selected section Format is similar to an SQL WHERE clause All shapes matching the query will be rendered according to other settings in the properties window Enter the name that will appear in the legend when the selected section is rendered Gives the option of ignoring any internal visual parameters that might be stored within the map file itself As is possible with CAD oriented file formats like DXF DGN or TAB Page 40 Section Tab Vector BNE ROAD Layer Section Renderer Line Area Marker Label 4 DE h Visible E Apply Minimum scale M asimunm scale Current gt lt 1 75000 Current gt lt 1 10000 Larie Render if match query must be logical HIERARCHY _CODE 502 OR HIERARCHY CODE 303 Legend Arterial dsible Scale 1 10000 Cuery HIERARCHY CODE 301 F dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY_CODE 302 OR HIE dsible Seale 1 10000 Query HIERARCHY_CODE 304 E dsible Seale 1 10000 Cuery HIERARCHY CODE 305 dsible Seale 1 75000 1 10000 Query HIERARCH
50. ts as they are overridden by colour settings from the SEEL Symbol to display for all current vehicle positions where the vehicle is moving Symbol to display for all current vehicle positions where the vehicle is stopped Symbol to display for all historical vehicle track points Tick this box if you wish the given current symbol to be rotated in accordance with the vehicle s heading Number of degrees to initially rotate the symbol by to reflect a Northerly heading Symbol to display on the map for current jobs Symbol used for displaying user entered features Clicking on a Symbol button will bring up the Symbol Style window similar to the one below Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 24 Symbols Select Symbol Font tutu later Effects Bold Underline Italic Strikeout Cancel As indicated in the dialog box the colours of the symbols are irrelevant as this information is retrieved from the Server LTtpeters testtir gt SyP lA T R A vg y gt I F im N d qs ite i lt D gt o gt k Y ee tor lt 44 ae i ie oe w Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 25 Vehicle Display Vehicle Display General Configuration Ed Device Types Symbols Vehicle Display Street Searches Map Display General Flayback Speed Fastest M W Show ehicle Trails Cancel The Vehicle Display section allows a couple of vehicle display rel
51. use the currently logged in i C Use Windows NT Authentication user s network account f Use SOL Server Authentication when trying to access the database SQL Server authentication requires the user to supply a User Name and Password when first connecting to the RevServer database 13 Select Server Authentication Type Cancel Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 10 Enter in the name of the Program Manager Group you want to install the RevViewer icons under and click Next That s it Click on Next to start the installation Once everything has been completed you will be prompted to restart the computer Start Installation Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Installation 2 Select Program Manager Group Enter the name of the Program Manager group to add Reveloc Viewer icons to Rey viewer GPS Navigation Graphics HMaplnta Mastenng NT Greek Microsoft HET Framework SOK v1 1 Microsoft Developer Network Microsoft Office Microsoft SOL Server Microsoft Visual Studio HET 2003 Microgott Web Publishing Mozilla Firefox Navman Online L NetLib Encryptionizer DE NPort Administration Suite x Back Tou are now ready to install Reveloc Viewer Fress the Nest button to begin the installation or the Back button to reenter the installation Information Cancel Page 11 Main Screen Main Screen To bring up the main screen activate Reveloc Viewer by Reveloc Double clicking on the Yiewer des
52. ve the vehicle s associated with them Export all loaded grid positions to a kml file for use in Google Earth Display the current position on a Google Map in the current system s web browser Page 69 Replay Controller History Slider Simple slider control for fast navigation to a particular grid row History Grid Grid of historic positions with more detailed information on each point Note 1 The Allow Vehicle Trails option must be ticked in order to view a trail of points 2 The local time is calculated based on the local PC s time zone setting 3 Where a vehicle has position information that contains a number of satellites its symbols will have a black border when the number of satellites is greater than or equal to four Readings with less than four satellites will be coloured with a white border Loading Multiple Log Files If you want to review multiple log files simultaneously simply load each file one by one and select No when the prompt displayed below appears ReyViewer in n 1 Do you wish to remove existing tracks From memory Once loaded all data will be sorted chronologically for each vehicle There is also an option to follow the progress of all vehicles in chronological order as indicated below Replay Controller vehicle gasset lt All vehicles Mobile 312 Mobile 318 Drag a column header here to group by that Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 70 Alerting Monitoring Al
53. ze feature This important layer property sets a size threshold for the rendering of shape features in the layer Shapes smaller than the Smart Size at any given zoom level scale level are not rendered With very large vector file layers use of the Smart Size feature can dramatically speed up the opening of vector map files and the rendering speed at relatively zoomed out extent levels This is because the software does not have to waste computational resources to render objects which Boyce Industries Pty Ltd Page 44 Area Line amp Marker Tabs are too small at a given zoom level to meaningfully affect the map view In some situations use of the Smart Size feature can enhance the map view by reducing clutter Smart Size Used to set the Smart Size in terms of points pt or pixels px A commonly used Smart Size setting is 1 pixel 1px which results in any line or polygon shape in the layer that would be rendered with a size of less than one full pixel at the present zoom level scale not being rendered at all Naturally the Smart Size feature is more meaningful for polygon and line layers since point shapes do not have a size The Smart size feature can be turned off by setting the size to 0 0 Field In the event that shapes are to be rendered by size based on values contained by one of the attributes this attribute can be selected from the drop down menu in this field Vector BNE LOCALITY Laver Section Renderer Ling A

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