4.20 Device Attribute Assignment Template

After drive test data is imported, some key pieces of information will be extracted and saved as attributes of the file/device. New attributes can also be created. Attributes can be used to categorize files/devices for the following purposes:

• Organize mobile data in Data Explorer. Mobile data can be categorized and logically displayed under the same attributes.

• Create Composite Data. Before creating a composite dataset, you can group the mobile data by its attributes and drag-and-drop the entire group to create composite data. See Composite Dataset for more information.

• Generate Reports. By assigning appropriate attributes to mobile data, you gain great flexibility to generate reports from specific data. These attributes can be part of the definition in the report template. See the Report Template Builder Metric List for information about applying these attributes. When generating final reports from large amounts of data, TEMS Discovery can internally categorize the data based on its attributes and produce reports of defined attributes from the data.

New attributes are defined and edited on the Device Attributes dialog, which can be accessed through the right-click context menus for data in the Data Explorer, the Composite Dataset dialog, or the Report Template Builder. The attributes can be globally applied to all data, conditionally or unconditionally.

Users can define any number of attributes and assign values to them. These attributes can then be used to group data for display or to identify data for reporting.

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The value of attributes can be assigned unconditionally, or changes to their value can be assigned conditionally by providing a list of conditions and the associated change. In the event you don't want to overwrite the value of an attribute that has been assigned a value, check the Don't overwrite the value of attribute if it is not empty option.

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The device attributes assignment can be saved as a template, and it can be configured to automatically assign device attributes at the time drive test data is imported. (See Import Drive Test Data and ADP Management for more information.)

To create a new Conditional Editing entry, select an empty row and fill in the File Name, Attribute and Condition fields (blue fields). Note that the condition field is always an equivalence test, e.g. Attribute = “ESN” and Condition = “1234*” will match any device with ESN that begins with “1234”. Then enter any of the attribute values (white fields) that will be applied to the file(s).

With conditional editing, you can define a condition that checks for certain text phrases in the file name. You can include the wildcard (*) in the text phrase to create more flexible condition checking.

Condition
ABC*	Checks if file name starts with ABC
*ABC	Checks if file name ends with ABC
ABCDEF*	Checks if file name contains ABC, then DEF

Time offset is a special device attribute that can be set to artificially offset the data collection time. This is extremely useful if you want to synchronize messages from different devices.