Where: background reading for anyone using the app, and for whoever trains them.
When you finish: you know which parts of the app your utility controls, which parts you control for yourself, and which are the same for everyone, so you read this guide for the step rather than the exact words.
Cloneable is not one fixed app. Your utility decides what it holds, what those things are called, and what they look like. Two crews at two utilities can both use UtilityScout and see screens with almost nothing in common. That is deliberate, and it is why this guide describes what you do rather than what is on your screen.
For whoever trains fielders: do not point a fielder at the app until your organization's configuration is built and switched on. Everything below describes a live, configured organization.
What your utility decides
Your utility chooses | So on your screen |
What things are called | The Add button uses your name (Add Structure, if you call poles structures). Some other buttons still say Pole, Span, Midspan or Guy Anchor. Your own custom types use your names throughout |
Which kinds of thing exist | One kind of pole or six; kinds this guide never mentions; kinds you do not have |
What things look like on the map | Icon shape, outline, fill, and what makes an icon change. A pole that needs work might be orange at one utility and red at another. A dashed line may be a perfectly normal finished span |
Which details you fill in | Every field, its name, whether it is required, whether photos are expected. Nothing on the form is fixed |
Which steps you get | More or fewer than this guide shows, in a different order, with different names |
Your units | Feet or meters, set when the configuration was built |
What you decide, just for yourself
Your setting | Effect |
Tabbed Layout | On by default. Off gives one continuous form |
Field order | Drag the ones you use most to the top |
So nobody should ever tell you "it is the third field down", not this guide and not your trainer. It depends on how you have arranged it.
What is the same for everyone
Same everywhere | Detail |
The safety loop | Start in the correct job. Complete what the job requires at the object. Verify before walking away. Finish the shift synced |
Selection | The object you have selected is highlighted; that is how you know what your next action applies to |
The counters | Labelled Poles and Spans for everyone, whatever your names. Left is measured, right is total |
Sync status | Syncing, Synced, Offline, Paused and Error mean the same thing to everyone, and so do their colours |
Find out what yours does
Ask for your job's requirements before the shift:
What do our map icons mean?
Which fields and photos are required at the pole?
Does this job require guy work or measurement, and which method?
What proves this object is complete?
When something here does not match, assume the guide describes your utility's version of the same thing. Look for the step that matches, not the exact words. If something the guide says should be there genuinely is not, your utility most likely has not set it up, which is normal. Ask before assuming the app is broken.
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