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Eric Collins posted 01-06-2023 10:21
Looking to have a report or spreadsheet that gives me a point list showing only points that were shot using the "DistanceOffset" Method in the field. 
I have Field Crews that use the Distance Offset Method, forget to change it in the Survey Controller when tying new points and
then these subsequent points all have the same offset but are not correct.   
I can see in the point properties that a point was shot with that Method (see screenshot), but is there an easy way to get a list of these points? 
I don't see any options in report settings to even show the distance offset amount or that they were not tied "Directly."

 
Thanks.
ian bissonnette's profile image
ian bissonnette
i am not very familiar with tbc reports, but i would use the optical spreadsheet. if you change the settings for the optical spreadsheet: settings cog/view/optical spread sheet/observation type toggle to show. then you should see what kind of observation was used for the shot. total station observation is a regular angle/distance, and in my example there are some distance offset shots. you can click the top column and organize by observation type too.
but, what is lacking is easy functionality to change them to angle distance shots. i wish that all fields were editable in tbc, this would give us the power to fix these problems quickly. i only know how to do yours manually. once you have them organized(might be better to run through them sequentially to find when the problem started), then you would have to open the properties and zero the offset(as shown on the left in my example). 

you can also use 'select observation' to highlight them all by observation type, but without pinpointing the exact ones you need this might or might not be too helpful. 

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Kyle Calhoun

My preferred option is to setup a custom export format for the data collectors to parse the data for you and generate a report similar to the as staked report and tailor it to your specific needs.

The more practical option if you don't have much coding experience is to use the selection explorer to sort data by type. If you don't have the selection explorer docked you can find the button along the top.