User Data Management

Transfer a database of user tops into a new Alternate Tops source. This could be either your own legacy database of user tops, or another AccuMap users database of user tops that you want to review. If AccuMap detects that you haven't migrated your original database of user tops already, a Migrate button appears in the Tops Sources pane that you click to complete the initial migration.

Using the Migrate button that appears in the Alternate Tops Sources pane, specify whether to migrate tops, formations, and aliases into the new alternate tops source.

1. With Tops Sources selected in the navigation pane of the User Data Management dialog box, click Migrate to display the User Database Migration dialog box.
   
2. In the From: Legacy User Database pane, click ... to navigate to the folder that contains the legacy userdb, ufatr, uforms, utopa, and uwela.dat files from which to import data, and using the check boxes, select the type(s) of data to import.
3. In the To: New Alternate Tops Source pane, click ... to the right of the Database file box to display the Save to user database file window where you navigate to the desired folder and type the file of the desired database file. The name you specify cannot be the name of an existing .userdb file in that same folder.
4. Type a source name with which the database can be referred to throughout AccuMap, and then click Migrate.

AccuMap supports multiple tops sources and stores them in a single file called Tops.userdb. To determine the location of your Tops.userdb file, refer to the Application Settings: Folders User Database Folder setting.

While multiple user tops sources are supported, only one can be the active tops source at a single time. All tops sources are readable, but only the active tops source can be written to (edited).

AccuMap also supports alternate tops sources. These are tops sources that originate from someone else's Tops.userdb file. These tops sources are always read-only as you cannot make an alternate tops source the active tops source.

To save tops to different source, click Add to create a new, empty tops source, and make it Active to save new tops in it, or to Copy/Merge to it.

• With Tops Sources selected in the navigation pane of the User Data Management dialog box, using the Active drop-down list, select the tops source that contains the tops with which to work throughout AccuMap. You can change which tops source is the active tops source at any time.
  Hover the cursor over the tops source name that appears in the Tops Sources grid to display the path and file name to which it resolves.
  
  Add new tops sources that you then modify using AccuMap and Copy/Merge to and from using other databases that are also listed in the Tops Sources grid.
• Rename a selected source, or delete one or more selected sources. The active tops source cannot be deleted.

Alternate Tops Sources are other tops user databases to which you have read-only access. Alternate Tops Sources differ from Tops Sources defined above in that they are a separate file, not a location within the master user tops database file, and are read-only.

• With Tops Sources selected in the navigation pane of the User Data Management dialog box, to the right of the Alternate Tops Sources grid, click Add to display the Add Read-only Source dialog box, where you navigate to the desired database file by selecting ..., and either accept or type the name for the user database that appears in the AlternateTops Sources grid.

Both Tops Sources and Alternate Sources can be displayed throughout AccuMap in dialog boxes such as the DataCard, Contouring, and more.

Restrict the copy/merge process to the well by specifying either a cross section or a well list that contains the UWIs for which to copy/merge tops. Restrict copy/merge to a specific formation or group of contiguous formations by specifying a zone of interest.

There are five copy/merge options with increasing severity. Below is a simple example that shows how each of the options affects your Active user tops source:

Add Tops Tops are placed only in wells without any picked tops, so in the example below, no tops are copy/merged.	Insert Tops Tops are placed in wells providing they're not already picked. In the example below, Mannville isn't copy/merged. When no tops are picked in the destination well, but they are in the source well, the source well KB is copied to the destination well along with the tops.
Replace Attributes For wells in which the source has tops picked, your existing attributes are deleted and all source tops attributes are added. In the example below, only Exshaw attributes are preserved.	Replace Tops Tops are placed in all wells, either by insertion when they're not yet picked, or by overwriting when they are. In the example below, only Exshaw is preserved.
Delete Tops For wells in which the source has tops picked, your existing tops are deleted and all source tops are added. In the example below, Paskapoo and Banff are inserted, Mannville is replaced, and Exshaw is deleted.

When using either the insert or the replace options, and a well in either the tops source or in the active user tops source has more than one instance of the same top in a well, that top is not written to your wells.

To copy/merge user tops

1. With Tops Sources selected in the navigation pane of the User Data Management dialog box, and a tops source selected that is not presently the active tops source, click Copy/Merge to display the Copy Merge to Active Tops Source dialog box.
   

2. Select the following:

• Scope filters (all wells, well list, or cross section) that defines the wells for which to copy-merge tops. Zone of Interest is also available as a subsurface horizon filter after an insertion or replacement option is selected.
• Copy/Merge method. Review the Example graphic in the dialog box to preview how the copy/merge will affect wells in the receiving tops source.
• The owner label to display for copy/merged tops or attributes.

3. Click OK.

• If you selected Insert Tops, Replace Tops, or Replace Attributes above, further select whether to limit the tops copy/merge into your Active User Tops source to just those that fall within upper and lower formations in a desired zone of interest by using the Zone of Interest dialog box. To copy/merge tops for only a single formation, select the same name for both the upper and lower formation top names.

4. Click Apply.

Depending on the copy/merge options above, UWIs of wells with added or deleted tops and wells to which tops couldn't be added (likely because of duplicate tops in the same well) appear in the display pane above.

• Click Save As to write the contents of the status pane to disk as a .txt file that you open with a text editor.

5. Click OK to return to the Copy/Merge User Tops dialog box and unless you want to copy/merge another user tops source, click Close.

The following attributes are included by default, though you can add as many attributes as you like: Comment; Net Pay; Net Sand; Permeability; Water Saturation; Porosity Percent. The default attributes cannot be deleted or renamed, but you can change whether they appear as a column or a row in the tops data grid for user tops.

To search the list of attributes that appear in both the Column and Row Attributes grids, start typing the attribute name in the Search box, which appears at the top of the User Data Management dialog box. To sort the grid, click a column header. Drag the column border () to change the column width.

1. With Attributes selected in the User Data Management navigation pane, click Create to the right of either the Column or Row Attributes grids to display the Create Attribute dialog box, where you define a unique attribute name, type, display (row or column) and a brief description for the desired attribute. UWI, KB, Formation, and Owner cannot be specified as attribute names.

2. When you click OK, the new attribute appears in either the Column or Row Attributes grids, depending on which you specified in the Display drop-down list, and values can be assigned to it using the DataCard: Tops tab.

By default, attributes specified for column display automatically appear in the DataCard: Tops grid, whereas attributes specified for row display must be added to each individual formation top by clicking the twisty to the left of the formation name to reveal the + sign, and then clicking the + sign to display the Add Attribute dialog box where you select the desired attribute to add.

Twisties for which an attribute is added are colored black (). Twisties for which attributes are not added remain transparent ().

3. Select the attribute in the grid, and click Edit or Delete to the right of the grid to modify or delete a selected attribute.

As with the User Formations dialog box, search the User or System Tops database based on type (Formation, Contact, Accessory, etc.). For items from the user database, spawn, modify, or delete. Text boxes are colored pink where the text is not unique and the item thus cannot be saved. Only a single item at a time can be deleted.

Click column headers in the grid to sort the results.

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With Owners selected in the navigation pane of the User Data Management dialog box, click Add to display the Add Owner dialog box, where you type the name for a new owner. Click Rename to change the name of a selected owner.