Field IQGeo scenarios in Cloneable and send the results back to IQGeo
The Cloneable Chrome extension connects IQGeo to Cloneable. Your design team’s scenario comes into Cloneable as a job, fielders capture it in the Cloneable app, and the changes go back into IQGeo.Nothing changes in IQGeo until you send. Setting up and bringing a scenario in only read from IQGeo.
Cloneable at app.cloneable.ai signed in. To set up, your account must be able to manage configurations.
The extension uses your existing IQGeo and Cloneable sign-ins. It never asks for or stores your passwords, and everything it writes to IQGeo is recorded under your IQGeo user.
If your IQGeo isn’t on an iqgeo.cloud address, open the extension’s Home screen, go to Private servers, add your IQGeo address, and allow access when Chrome asks.
Click the Cloneable icon in Chrome’s toolbar. If it isn’t there, pin it from the puzzle-piece menu. With your IQGeo tab active, the side panel shows IQGeo with three tabs: Set up, From IQGeo and To IQGeo.A green dot at the top shows the panel is connected, with your IQGeo address and IQGeo user. The letter at the top right is the Cloneable account you’re signed in with.
The green dot means the panel is connected to your IQGeo
You do this once per IQGeo. The extension reads IQGeo’s forms, option lists and icons and creates a Cloneable configuration that every scenario uses. Nothing changes in IQGeo.
1
Open Set up
Click the Set up tab. The list at the bottom shows any IQGeo configurations your organization already has.
2
Read the IQGeo model
Click Step 1 · Read the IQGeo model. Next to IQGeo model, the panel shows how many feature types, option lists and icons it read.
After Step 1, the panel shows what it read from IQGeo
If IQGeo’s map hasn’t finished loading, the panel reloads the IQGeo tab. Save any open IQGeo form first.
3
Choose what to include
Keep the default feature types under Include. They cover everything fielders use.
Name is what people pick when they bring a scenario in. The default is “IQGeo Fielding”.
Leave Use IQGeo’s icon artwork ticked so the Cloneable map looks like IQGeo’s.
Leave Conventions on None unless Cloneable has given you a conventions file.
4
Check what will be created
Click Step 2 · Check what will be created. The extension rehearses the whole setup without creating anything, then lists the templates, dropdowns and map icons it will make. Open What’s in each template to see the fields.
The check lists what will be created. Nothing exists yet.
5
Create it
Click Step 3 · Create. If anything goes wrong, everything made along the way is removed, so you never end up with half a configuration. Click Open the configuration to see it in Cloneable.
What the configuration carries over from IQGeo:
In IQGeo
In Cloneable
Field forms for poles, anchors, aerial spans, underground paths, terminals and so on
Object templates for poles, guys and anchors, spans, lines and points
Click the From IQGeo tab. Bringing a scenario in never changes anything in IQGeo.
2
Select the scenario in IQGeo
Click the scenario’s outline or title on IQGeo’s map. Its name appears under Scenario in the panel.
3
Choose the configuration
Under Configuration, choose the IQGeo configuration you created during setup.
4
Check what to bring in
What to bring in shows how many of each feature type are inside the scenario. Keep the defaults and keep Bring photos along ticked.
What to bring in: a count for each type inside the scenario
5
Choose where it goes
Under Into, leave New job. The job is named after the scenario. You can change the name, or choose Existing job.
6
Bring it into Cloneable
Click Bring N features into Cloneable (N is the total of the ticked types). When it finishes you see how many features were created and how many photos were uploaded. If anything fails, it is listed with a button to retry just those.
The result, with links to the job and to sending back
Click Open in Cloneable to see the job on the Utility Map. Fielders now see it in the Cloneable app.
Bringing the same scenario in again updates that job. Nothing is duplicated. From version 2.2.1, spans that cross the scenario boundary also bring their pole on the far side, locked, so the span stays connected.
Fielders open the job in the Cloneable iOS app and work through each object. Every template shows the fields IQGeo requires, for example “13 of 15 required fields remaining” on a pole, and flags values outside IQGeo’s allowed ranges as they type. Photos go in the photo fields on each object.
Open the To IQGeo tab. It works in three steps: Job, Review and Send.
1
Load the job
Search for the job and click Load. The extension checks the job against IQGeo before anything is written. A configuration check shows anything IQGeo requires that the job doesn’t fill.
2
Review
You see how many features will be updated or added, how many are held back and why, and how many already match IQGeo. Each held-back group says how to fix it in Cloneable, for example “No pole height: measure the pole height in Cloneable”, with links to the objects.Features deleted in Cloneable are only deleted in IQGeo if you tick Delete these in IQGeo when I send. Features that existed in IQGeo before Cloneable are never deleted, only unlinked.
Review before sending: what will change in IQGeo
3
Send
Tick the Write to box, which names your IQGeo address and warns that changes are live. Then click Send N changes to IQGeo. The box unticks after each send.To try one pole first, open Check a pole before sending, preview it and click Send only this pole.
When it’s done, the panel says how many IQGeo features are linked to the job. Sending again only sends what changed in Cloneable since the last send. If everything matches, you see “Nothing to send”.
Sending is limited to the scenario the job came from. New and moved features must be inside the scenario boundary, and updates must be to features in that scenario. If the extension can’t confirm that, it sends nothing.
