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A SPIDAcalc client file lists your poles, owners, anchors, parts and forms. Cloneable turns it into a configuration: the objects fielders collect, the fields on each, and the pick lists they choose from. You do this once per client file. You need to be an organization admin.

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What gets mapped

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Build the configuration

Open Settings → Configurations → New configuration → From a SPIDA catalog. The builder walks you through six steps. Click Next to move on and Back to change an earlier step.
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Upload

Drop your .client file on the page or click Browse files (up to 50 MB). Cloneable shows the catalog name, the Client file version and how many poles, owners, anchors, wires and location forms it found.If Cloneable spotted anything unusual, a note says so. Click Show the notes to read them. Nothing there stops the build.
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Object types

Choose what fielders collect: Pole (always included), Span, Span measurement (midspans) and Guy anchor. Turning on Span measurement also turns on Span. The relationships between them, such as each span linking two poles, are added for you.
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Fields

Choose which fields each object collects. See Choose what fielders collect.
4

Lists

Choose which poles, owners, anchors and environments fielders can pick. Uncheck any you never want offered, or use Select all and Clear all. Keep at least one entry in each list.The default owner from your client file shows here. Cloneable applies it on export when a pole has no owner; it isn’t filled in on devices.If your file has trusses, braces, bundles, foundations or wire-mounted equipment, they’re listed too. Leave out any you don’t want the tracer to offer.
5

Review

Type a Configuration name. The review shows the templates and fields, pick lists, defaults, and anything collected but not exported to SPIDAcalc.Anything under Fix before creating must be fixed first. Worth checking items don’t block you. Nothing is created until the next step.
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Create

Click Create configuration. When you see Configuration created, click Open configuration.
If creating fails partway through, Cloneable removes what it made, so you can fix the problem and create again.

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Choose what fielders collect

The Fields step lists each object’s fields in groups:
  • Always included: what the export needs, such as location, measurements and the links between objects. You can’t turn these off.
  • Optional attributes and catalog choices: pole tag, pole type, owner, ground-line circumference, anchor type and the location details SPIDAcalc stores (remedies, comments, technician, address and so on). Some start on; extras like the location details and a typed pole height start off.
  • One group per location form, named after the form. Pick the form fields your crews fill in.
Use the buttons at the top to jump to an object. Each shows how many optional fields are on, such as Pole · 6/18 optional.
Only collect what your engineers use in SPIDAcalc. Every extra field is more typing in the field. You can change field defaults and conditional rules later in the configuration’s templates.

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When your client file changes

To bring in new or changed parts from an updated client file:
  1. Open the configuration and go to the Pick list step.
  2. Click Import SPIDA Client File and choose the new file.
  3. Save the configuration.
Parts you already used keep working, and new parts show up in the tracer and the export.
Re-importing updates parts only. It doesn’t add new location forms or form fields, and it doesn’t refresh the pole, owner, anchor or environment lists. For those, build a new configuration from the new file with a new name. Existing configurations and their jobs aren’t changed.

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More than one client file

Build one configuration per client file. Each job uses one configuration, so pick the one that matches the client file your engineers will open the export with.