Use this module when your job says to add objects or connections. What you see is built from your company's configuration, so names and available object types may differ.
Placing is deliberately quick: it records where an object is. It does not establish that the object's required field work is complete.
The button will use your organization's own words. If your company calls them structures, it says structures.
Which kinds of object you can place at all is also your organization's decision. You may have one kind of pole or several, and you may have kinds of object this article never mentions. The steps are the same whatever they are called.
Placing a pole
Choose the add action on the sheet at the bottom.
If your organization has more than one kind of pole, use the small chevron beside it to pick which. This is worth checking the first time rather than assuming there is only one.
A crosshair appears in the middle of the map. Move the map so the crosshair sits where the pole is.
Confirm it.
The pole appears on the map straight away. Placing it records where it is. It does not measure it. What a new pole looks like depends on the icons your organization set up, so judge it by whether it appeared, not by its color or shape. See Find your way around the map.
Note: Some add buttons have a small caret underneath. Long-press one to reveal secondary point types your organization has set up, such as No-Access markers, Angry Dog warnings, Map Notes, or locked gates.
Where the object gets placed
You may get two ways to place an object: at the crosshair, or at where your phone says you are standing. Your organization sets this per object type in its configuration, so it can differ from one object type to another. The at-your-position option also needs a current location fix, and the app does not offer it when your phone does not have one.
At the crosshair is right when you can see the pole and want it exactly there. At your position is right when you stand at the pole. Neither is better. They suit different moments.
Placing several in a row
After you confirm a pole, the bottom row can keep you in placement. Slide the row if you do not see every control.
Turn on Continue Adding. It turns green. Each new pole stays in this mode, and the span connecting it to the last one you placed is drawn automatically.
Auto Midspan appears while Continue Adding is on. It is on by default and shows orange, and it drops a small midpoint marker on every chained span as you go.
Leave it on if most spans need a midpoint. Turn it off before you start if none of them do, or unhighlight an individual span afterward to skip just that one.
Slide the row to the right and tap Done when you finish. Done is blue.
If Continue Adding is off, the last control reads Cancel.
Note: Auto Midspan is on by default whenever Continue Adding is on. Turn it off before you start if you do not want midpoints at all, or unhighlight a specific span afterward if only that one does not need one.
Connecting two poles into a span
Start a connection and a line follows between the poles as you draw. It is not saved until you confirm it.
Do not judge that from how the line looks. Line styles, including dashes, belong to your organization's own line types, so a dashed line on your map may be a perfectly normal finished span. Go by whether you confirmed it.
You then have three things available:
Confirm the connection, which commits it.
Choose the span type, if your organization has more than one.
Add a midspan, if you need to record something at the middle of the span.
If drawing a line tells you no line template is set up, that is a setup gap rather than a fault. See that message.
Drawing a line with several bends
There is a separate mode for lines with multiple points. It counts your points as you go, so the label tells you how many you have placed, and there is an undo for the last one.
As with poles, you can add each point at the crosshair, and also at your own position when your phone has a current location fix.
What placing does not do
Placing an object does not measure it. It puts it on the map with its position. The counters keep reading zero measured until measurement happens, which is correct.
Filling in details is separate too. See Fill in a pole or span's details.
Related field modules
Return to the field runbook. If your job requires more work on this object, use Fill in a pole or span's details, Take photos and review them, Measure a pole or Guy wires as applicable.