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Working on Job Files
Creating a New Job
Before you ask field operators to create a new job, you just
need to create the appropriate feature library and upload it to
their handhelds. Field operators will then just have to create
a new job based on this feature library. But you can also pre-
pare an “empty” job using the procedure below and ask field
operators to open that job for their field operations. By
“empty job” we mean “with no features logged yet in the
job.” But this empty job can contain waypoints, routes and a
background map as explained below.
You create job files using the
New command from the File
menu. Select Save from the File menu, type in a name for the
job and click the Save button to create a new *.mmj file in the
Docs folder (default folder).
A job file cannot do without a feature library as field opera-
tors do need a feature library to complete their jobs. That is
why you have to import a feature library –created earlier–
into the job before uploading the job to the handheld. You
can do that using the
Import command from the File menu,
specifying the Feature Library Files option in the Files of Type
field, selecting the feature library to associate with the job
and then clicking
Open . As a result, all the features read from
this library will appear as layers in the job.
You can also add waypoints, routes and a background map
to be part of the job. This is simply done by saving the job
when a waypoint/route list displayed in the right-hand part
of the screen and a background map is attached to the job and
shown in the Map Display area.
The coordinate system attached to the job will be the one
currently selected in MobileMapper Office. This informa-
tion will be required in the handheld if you have created a list
of waypoints in the job so that the handheld can identify the
coordinate system used to express these waypoint coordi-
nates.
To create a feature
library, see explanations
from page 76.
To create waypoints and
routes, see explanations
from page 90.
To create a background
map, see explanations
from page 94.
To choose a coordinate
system, and for more
information on coordi-
nate systems, see expla-
nations from page 103.