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This tab displays a hierarchical list of
the project floor plans or site maps and performed surveys, as
shown below.
This list is an important tool
that offers the following functionality:
·Add, rename, or delete
floors (for multi-floor projects) and floor plans / site maps: The
project hierarchy consists of floors, floor plans, and surveys. The
top hierarchy level is a floor, which contains one or several floor
plans. A floor plan contains one or several surveys (i.e.,
walkabout paths with associated data collected by TamoGraph).
Adding a floor is optional. Your project does not necessarily have
to have the top-level floor node; when you create a new project, a
floor level is not automatically created, and your floor plan
becomes the top-level node. To add a new floor, click
Add
=> Floor. To add a new plan, select the floor you
want to add the plan to and click Add => Plan or Add => Street
map, if you want to
import a map from one of the online map services or Microsoft
MapPoint (MapPoint Europe or MapPoint North America are required to
use MapPoint maps). To move a plan and related surveys to a newly
created floor, simply select the plan with the mouse and drag it to
the corresponding floor node. You can also use the context menu
commands to Rename
or Delete
floors and floor
plans.
·Include, exclude, or
delete surveys: Every survey that you performed shows up as a
separate check-boxed item under the floor plan where the survey
took place. Checking the box makes the application include the data
collected in the course of the selected survey in data analysis and
visualizations. Depending on where and when the surveys were
conducted, you may want to check all or only some of the survey
check boxes. For example, if you have a large site and you made one
break while conducting the site survey, your walkabout path will
consist of two parts, both of which should be included in the
analysis. In a different scenario (e.g., when you surveyed the
entire site prior to installing additional wireless hardware and
then surveyed it again after the installation), you will probably
want to include only one of the surveys and then compare it with
the other one by changing the check box selection. You can also use
the context menu commands to Rename
or Delete
surveys.
·Merge surveys:
Sometimes, you may want to merge several surveys into a single one
for clarity and/or convenience. Typically, this might be desirable
when you made a break and then resumed the survey from where you
previously stopped. In such a situation, it is quite logical to
merge two surveys into a single one, as they represent a single
logical walkabout path. To do that, check the surveys you want to
merge and use the Merge Surveys
context menu command. Please
note that that the types of the surveys to be merged, their data
collection methods, and all other parameters must be exactly the
same. For example, you can merge two active surveys conducted in
continuous mode in which you collected TCP and UDP throughput data,
but you cannot merge an active and a passive survey, or two active
surveys if in one of them you collected TCP data and in the other
you collected TCP and UDP data. Similarly, you cannot merge two
surveys if one of them was conducted in continuous mode while the
other was conducted in point-to-point mode.
The Type column displays the type of survey that was
conducted: Passive,
Active,
or Passive +
Active. You can use
the Comments
column to add or modify
comments for surveys.The Floor Manager
is a tool that may be used in
multi-floor predictive surveys; more information can be found in
the Working with
Multi-Floor Sites chapter.
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