SSI America 8040, 8020 manual Manually Creating a Survey Record

report and the “Survey Results (Pass/Fail)” field is for the results of the survey. The “Notes” field is for any general notes for the report.

Manually Creating a Survey Record

Clicking on the “Advanced: Manually Create Survey Record” link from the Load Survey Data screen will allow the user to create a survey record to use. Clicking on this link will display the “Manually Create Survey Record” form (figure 2.5). Five pieces of data are required to manually create a record: the SDS model, serial number, the start time and date of the survey, the end time and date of the survey, and the TC Spool Offset.

Figure 2.5 Manually Create Survey Record form

The drop-down list next to “Survey Box Model” contains a list of the available models, the SDS8020 and the SDS8040. Select they model type. Enter the SDS serial number on the next line, “Survey Box Serial Number”. The SDS model and serial number can be found on the About / Sign-onmenu, menu option 12 on the SDS instrument. The process for selecting the start date/time and the end date/time is the same. To select a date, click on the down arrow next to the time listed. This will bring up a calendar from which the user can select a new date (figure 2.6). Select the new date by clicking on it.

Figure 2.6 Select new date

The date of the survey start /end is listed to the right of the drop-down list. To select a time, click on the hours, minutes, seconds or “AM/PM”. The selected field will be highlighted. Each field can be changed by using the up or down arrows on the keyboard. If the survey start date is later than the survey end date, a message will be displayed to the user and the record will not be added (figure 2.7).

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