Before your first Survey

It’s important to familiarize yourself with the software before attempting your first survey in the field.

I fully understand your excitement to get out in the field and start surveying with InspectX, however, to ensure the highest level of success, I suggest starting out by completing at least a few survey inspections the ‘old fashioned’ way by collecting notes and photos onboard the boat and using InspectX to write the report in the office. There are already too many things to pay attention to onboard a survey that a tablet/computer should only be introduced once you are thoroughly familiar with the application.

*If you don’t already have a template for your hand-written field notes I’ll include one here. FIELD NOTES

Once you begin using a tablet in the field you’ll set yourself small goals at first, planning on completing 20-30% in the field and increasing that amount with each subsequent assignment.

To start familiarizing yourself with the layout of InspectX, the following section includes these topics:

• The Project Selection Page
  – The starting page of InspectX and where you choose or create your projects

• Button Mode
• Outline Mode
  – These are the main navigation pages for viewing and making changes to the project.

• The Entry Detail Page
• The Findings Page
• The Publish Page