The Project List contains an overview of projects created in the Private Data folder of the local computer, collected for sharing in a Public Data folder, or even located in the Private Data folders of multiple remote TEMS Discovery peers.

TEMS Discovery provides a multi-user environment. Different users in the same computer can have their own private data folder, hidden from others. Projects created by a user will be visible only to their owner (these are listed under the Private Data tree node in the tree view). However, the computer administrator has the right to control who else has permission to access a particular user's private data folder.

The Public Data folder is for sharing data among all users. Users can upload their private data to the public data folder, or download data to their private data folder for manipulation. This Public Data folder can be a network folder. Please see Measurement Data Storage Options for information about setting up a Public Data folder.

Additionally, TEMS Discovery can connect to remote computers that are also running TEMS Discovery and share data with those computers’ active users. In the tree view, a remote computer will be indicated with its IP address and FTP port number. See Data Networking for more information.

The Project List is the data portal. The listed projects can be opened to a workspace with certain pre-configured view layouts and/or with pre-defined analysis sets.

 

TEMS Discovery provides functions to filter the file/device list by date or by user-selected.

 

Right-clicking at the tree node shown above will bring up the following dialog for defining date range, so that only the file/devices which are processed or collected within that date range will be listed.

 

Other than the above date filtering, for each dataset, only up to a certain number of file/devices can be listed. You can select the context menu “Modify Max. Number Of Files To Be Listed For Each Dataset” to modify this maximum number.

To be more specific, you can manually select the file/device to be listed from the following dialog which can be brought by selecting contaxt menu “Select File/Device For Listing”.

 

 

 

Geo area. The Geo area combo box lists the available geo areas created by importing GIS data. Once a geo area is selected, all the maps under that geo area will be listed under Default GIS combo box.

A geo area can be associated to a project, so that all the maps under that geo area will be listed in the Data Explorer–GIS List and available for display in the Map View.

 

Geo center. Once a geo area is selected, the center of the selected geo area will be used as the geo center of the project.

Because Map View is based on Azimuth Equidistance projection, an appropriate geo center is crucial. If you select a geo area for the project, the geo center will be automatically determined from the selected geo area, otherwise, the geo center will be determined from the first data (drive test data, cell configuration, or maps, etc.) to be displayed in the Map View. You have the option to clean up the current geo center and force TEMS Discovery to determine a new geo center. In some circumstances, this could solve some Map View distortion problems.

 

Default maps for display and report. You have the option to select multiple maps so that they will be always displayed in the Map View when it is opened or when it is part of output such as Excel, PDF, or paper printing.

 

Default UDR. You have the option to select multiple UDRs so that they will be always displayed in the Map View when it is opened or when it is part of output such as Excel, PDF, or paper printing.

 

Default print area (UDR bounding rectangle). TEMS Discovery provides several features such as Reporting, Batch Printing, and Batch PDF View to output data in the Map View. Instead of leaving TEMS Discovery to automatically determine output area, you can create a UDR in the Map View and select that UDR as the output boundary.

 

Cluster UDR mapping for reporting. In this spreadsheet, you can create indexes for cluster UDRs. When you create the report template in the Report Template Builder, you can select an index in Report Options so that only the data collected in the corresponding UDR will be considered for reporting.

 

The default cell configuration defined here will be used for generating Cell ID frames and Map View reports (if prompted to include cell configuration in the report template), as well as other functions that require the presence of a cell configuration.

You have the option of selecting a default cell configuration so that it will be always displayed in the Map View when it is opened, or you can choose to just restore the last displayed cell configuration.

 

From the Project List, you can double-click on a project, or right-click the project field and select Open Project to open a project. Once a project is open, a workspace like the one shown below will be created. This workspace contains multiple views that can be turned on or off by their corresponding toolbar buttons or from the File menu.

 

You can select a project in the Project List, then hit the Delete key on the keyboard or select Delete from the pop-up menu to delete the project. All data belonging to that project will be permanently removed from the disk and cannot be recovered.

TEMS Discovery maintains a list of TEMS Discovery peers that can access and share data.

 

To add or edit a TEMS Discovery peer, click the Add or Edit button to bring up the Add/Edit Remote Data Server dialog.

 

The settings in this dialog must be consistent with what is defined in TEMS Discovery peer (defined in Data Networking). Clicking the Test button will test whether this specific remote TEMS Discovery peer is accessible.