I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. Are you talking about Survey Attributes with Open Roads Survey?
The success of this requires some specific modifications to variables and more if you want to try and use traditional InRoads Survey Codes. A few are not supported and a number of new/replacement codes have been added. Also, Attributes often rely on a TIW file with specific settings. Open Roads might not be looking in the same location for TIW files as InRoads. Also, there is a GEOPAK TDS format and an InRoads TIW driven TDS format.
We have also seen newer releases of the data collector software sometimes changes how the attributes at accessed or stored in the raw file. In most cases, you have to either export the file on the data collector, or use an after-the-fact conversion tool to take the XML survey file and transform it to another format. This conversion tool is actually very similar to the InRoads XML Reports - using XML style sheets (XSL) to read and transform one file type to another. They provide a TDS Style sheet, but it writes Attributes in yet another format from the original TDS format. With my skill set from customizing InRoads XML reports, I was able to create a version that wrote out attributes in the manner we have always used.
Also, InRoads supports a dot notation for attributes, using a Note field. The method is very simple add a new not to a shot and type a period (dot) as the first character. Follow this immediately with the attribute name, a space and the attribute value. Initially, this could only read single word attributes, but later releases were able to read at least three word attribute values.
We edited the TDS TIW file to make a comma an acceptable delimiter, so our crews could type the period and the attribute name followed by a comma and then, they could write a book, as long as they did not use any commas.
The success of this requires some specific modifications to variables and more if you want to try and use traditional InRoads Survey Codes. A few are not supported and a number of new/replacement codes have been added. Also, Attributes often rely on a TIW file with specific settings. Open Roads might not be looking in the same location for TIW files as InRoads. Also, there is a GEOPAK TDS format and an InRoads TIW driven TDS format.
We have also seen newer releases of the data collector software sometimes changes how the attributes at accessed or stored in the raw file. In most cases, you have to either export the file on the data collector, or use an after-the-fact conversion tool to take the XML survey file and transform it to another format. This conversion tool is actually very similar to the InRoads XML Reports - using XML style sheets (XSL) to read and transform one file type to another. They provide a TDS Style sheet, but it writes Attributes in yet another format from the original TDS format. With my skill set from customizing InRoads XML reports, I was able to create a version that wrote out attributes in the manner we have always used.
Also, InRoads supports a dot notation for attributes, using a Note field. The method is very simple add a new not to a shot and type a period (dot) as the first character. Follow this immediately with the attribute name, a space and the attribute value. Initially, this could only read single word attributes, but later releases were able to read at least three word attribute values.
We edited the TDS TIW file to make a comma an acceptable delimiter, so our crews could type the period and the attribute name followed by a comma and then, they could write a book, as long as they did not use any commas.