Collaborative survey and stakeout

• Collaborative Survey and Stakeout allows survey and stakeout operations to be performed in parallel from multiple field controllers at the same time. All users can share, view, and work on the same survey, including measurements and drawings created during the collaborative session.

To partecipate in a collaborative survey and stakeout session, the users must be in the same X-PAD Enterprise account.

Start a collaborative session

• The user who want to start the collaborative survey or stakeout session must open a Collaborative job.

• Open a Survey or Stakeout function and click Collaborative icon.

  

• Click New session to start a new collaborative session.

  

• Enter the Session name and click OK.

• The collaborative session is started.

Collaborative session settings

• To change the Collaborative session settings, click the Collaborative icon.

• Select Session settings.

  

• This open the Session settings panel.

  • Session alias: the alias used by the user in the collaborative session.

  • Share points: the points measured will be shared in real time with participants.

  • Receive points: the points measured by the participants will be received in this controller.

  • Receive users position: the position of participants will be visible in the map.

Join a collaborative survey session

• Other X-PAD 365 Enterprise users can join collaborative sessions.

• If a user is connected to X-PAD 365 receives a notification to join the session when it is started.

  

• Otherwise open a Survey or Stakeout functionality from a Collaborative job.

• Then click on Collaborative icon and select Join session.

  

• The software lists the active sessions.

• Click Join to join a specific session.

  

Sharing points and drawing within a session

• When the session is started, it is possible to visualize in real time points, drawing and stakeout points measured by the participants in the session.

• The points measured by the other users have a different color and user’alias as prefix.

  

• If you start the survey while other participants already measured points, you are prompted to download locally the missing points and drawing.

  

• The shared points are available in the controller with a special icon to identify these was measured by the other participants.

  

Leave a collaborative session

• To leave a collaborative session click the Collaborative icon.

  

• Click Stop session to exit from the current session.

• Click Stop and close session to exit and terminate the current session.