Planning - Line Planning

This dialog shows the lines selected in the Line Databases dialog.
In this dialog the separate lines are shown as well as the overall statistics of the complete survey.
The idea behind the line planning is to set up a list with selected items which will be used in forthcoming recording sessions to avoid having to browse through long lists of lines.

When online the planning list can be browsed using the Page Up/Page Down buttons and the arrow keys on the keyboard.

For each individual line the following information is displayed:

Planning
Priority	The object at the top of the list (Priority 1) is selected as the first line to be sailed. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons or the Make First button to place a different line at the top of the list. An asterix (*) behind the word Priority indicates that the order of the list is fixed. Use the right mouse button option Priority-Lock Order to switch this off. When switched off the order of the items in the list can be changed using the Move Up, Move Down and Make First buttons.
Name	Shows an icon which indicates whether the item is a Point, Line or Route plus the name of the item.
Sections	The number of sections in case the selected item is a Route. When the route has more than 500 sections the cell color will be red and an exclamation mark is visible. This is just a warning that possible performance issues may arise when using QINSy on a slower computer. E.g. CPU usage may increase because of the line offset calculations for all the sections. Notice that in the Line Database Manager you may use the option "Remove Small Sections", under Edit Route Dialog - Tools. This could decrease the number of sections. However, it may of course make the pipeline location less accurate, if you use a too large 'minimum section length' to remove.
Length (Grid)	The length of the selected item. Not available in case of a point object.
Bearing (True)	The bearing of the selected item. Not available in case of a point object. The value depends on the settings set for the Control on the Automatic Line Selection in the Storage group.
Status	Planned - Line has been selected to be surveyed. Re-planned - After a recording session the line has been reset to the planning status to be surveyed again. (Use right mouse button option "Re-plan Status" to switch to this status.) Surveyed - Line is surveyed. Replayed - The recorded line has been replayed.
<Make First>	The highlighted line will be placed at the top of the list.
<Move Up> <Move Down>	The highlighted line can be moved to any position in the list.
<Deselect>	The line will be removed from the list.
<History>	A new dialog will open with the survey history of the selected line.
<Send>	Send the coordinates of all lines to the waypoint output driver. This option is only available when your template setup has a Waypoint Output driver with User Interface defined. For example: 'Waypoints - NMEA WPL (Serial) - 15' is one of the drivers which accepts input from Line Planning.

Right mouse button functions

For each line the following actions can be taken by using the right mouse button:

Right mouse button functions
Priority	Various options to change the priority of the selected items. Lock Order can be used to keep the order of the selected lines in case another line is set as mainline. Most of the options can also be found as buttons below the dialog.
Layout	Switch columns on or off and make them fit in the dialog.
History	A new dialog will open with the survey history of the selected line.
Re-plan Status	This option will switch the status of the selected line to Planned again.
Reverse	Change the sailing direction of the line. This is shown in the Bearing (True) column. Online, shortcut button F7 has the same result. This only works when Automatic Line Selection - Line Bearing in the Storage menu has been set to Planning.
Properties	A dialog will open with information on the highlighted line as known in the Line Database file.

The statistics table in the lower pane will show Total, Completed and Remaining: Lines, Distance and Time to survey in absolute figures and Percentages.

Statistics
Lines	The number of lines selected in the planning.
Distance	The cumulative distance of all selected lines.
Time	The time it will take to sail the distance of the selected lines. The time depends on the type of speed set in the Settings dialog. This could be either an average speed from the history or a nominal speed value.

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