Using Projects

For a video tutorial, please see: Projects - managing projects

Projects are containers to hold your cables. You can add a new project by clicking the '+Project' button. Once a project is added you can edit project details and add cables.

Your projects are listed in a table. You can filter what is displayed by typing search terms and sort the table by clicking on headings. For each project, you can do the actions:

• edit - edit the project's details
• people - add or remove users/collaborators to the project
• delete - delete the project
• group_work - navigate to the project's cables view
• content_copy - copy a project (including cables)
• settings - edit settings (for advance use only)

Create new project

Projects reflect the way you work and are used to organised cable schedules.  Once you create a project, you will be able to access its cable schedule and select and work with cables.

To create [add] a new project click the 'Create New Project' button, fill out the project number and name.  When you create a project, you are automatically the project owner.  As the project owner, you can complete/update project details, add contributors to the project and transfer ownership. 

Description: to keep track of your projects, give a meaningful project a number (or other identifier) and description.

Environmental:  default values can be set.  See Projects - environmental variables.

Branding: You can change the project logo here. The logo will appear on report headings.

Summary/Comments:  you can enter comments or summary information about your project here. Comments are printed on various reports. In particular, the 'Project Cable Sizing' report will include comments as the first section. Making it ideal to document scope, assumptions, findings and other relevant project information.

Update Project

You can update projects by clicking the update button on the projects menu.  On the update page you can change the project number and description, set default values or update the logo. 

Default values set for temperatures and soil thermal resistivity are used when a new cable is created.  Although, they can also be overridden in the cable itself.  If you know the actual site conditions, you should enter these, otherwise, by selecting a country from the drop-down list, the default values will be populated with the reference conditions given in the IEC standards.

The logo appears on reports, and you are free to change this and upload your own logo if you wish. 

Advanced Setting

Changing advanced settings may result in your cables being sized incorrectly or not in line with regulations. Only change these settings if you are confident that your decisions will result in compliant cables.