Wachs Vitals - Creating and Editing Valves and Activities; Printing

Chapter 7, Using Vitals Desktop: Creating and Editing Valves and Activities
E.H. Wachs Part No. 79-MAN-04, Rev. I 139
CREATING AND EDITING VALVES AND
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CTIVITIES
If you need details about the structure of the Vitals valve
database (for instance, for importing/exporting data to or
from an external database), see Appendix B, “Vitals Data-
base Reference”.
How Vitals Uses GPS Location Information
Vitals 3.8.1 includes
Latitude and Longitude in the valve
record. You must enter these values to the valve record
manually, using your best available GPS data for the valve.
(You can also add them when importing valve data from an
external database.)
The latitude and longitude stored in the valve record are
considered the reference, or “correct”, values. Vitals will
look first to the valve record for GPS information about a
valve (such as when doing a GPS search with Vitals
Mobile). If there is no GPS information in the valve record,
Vitals will use data from activity records for the valve.
Activity records have latitude and longitude values that are
logged during the activity, using GPS measurements from
the controller. These values may vary for a given valve,
depending on the quality of the GPS readings during the
activity, and may not be accurate. Note that Vitals Mobile
only stores latitude and longitude data in activity records; it
does not change the latitude and longitude in the valve
record.
When Vitals needs location data for a valve that does not
have latitude and longitude in the valve record, it reads from
activity records for that valve and averages the available
data.
Valve Record
Double click on any valve record in the Valves section to
bring up the valve record window.