Creating Projects
Projects are represented by individual
nodes (
) beneath the main Projects node (
).
Multiple concurrent projects can exist in the same Data Manager navigation tree.
Each project is a self-contained group made up of one or several locations that comprise your area of interest. A catalog of digital curves, raster logs, and digital surveys can be displayed and customized for each project. Curves, rasters, and directional surveys you download are placed in the Downloaded Files folder inside this project, which correlates to a directory location you specify.
Following is a Data Manager and a directory view of the same project:
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Data Manager View |
Network Directory View |
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As you download files, they're placed in the log_files, log_surveys, and rasters folder structures above.
Create as many projects as you want. Once you've created
a project, choose whether to set it as your default project (
) so that it's automatically expanded when you launch Data
Manager.
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There can only be one default project, but any project can be set as a default project at any time by right-clicking the project node and selecting Set as default from the shortcut menu. |
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Either create a new project or modify the area, catalog settings, and processing options of an existing project.
This procedure explains how to create a new project. For details on modifying an existing project, see individual topics in the Defining Projects and Refining Catalogs help books.
To create projects
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1. Right-click the
Projects node and click New Project from the shortcut menu |
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2. Type a title for the project that afterwards appears in the left navigation pane and that will be written to disk.
Right-click the project node and select Rename to change the project name at any time.
3. For the disk location
in which to save your project configuration and export files, click 
and navigate to a networked or
local disk. This must be a mapped disk drive; universal naming convention (UNC) isn't supported. It's here that files downloaded from both the IHS Information
Hub Direct Connect and from your proprietary log data server (if configured)
are saved.
Although Data Manager defaults to your My Documents folder, it's best to save your project in a different location. The Create a New Folder (
) button is inactive when you're in the My Documents folder.
4. Select OK. A folder with the same name as the project you defined above will be created in the directory to which you just browsed.
In the Area
Search Settings pane, select whether to delete the area of interest
coordinates defined for this project when you close Data Manager.
5. Click 
. The Log
Files Settings, Log
Survey Settings, and Raster
File Settings
panes are default locations that will be created inside of the project folder you defined above. If you have a different location to which all downloaded logs, directional surveys, and rasters are placed, you can click
to specify that location.
If the location specified above is a shared location that contains files other than your future project files, ensure the Delete check boxes for logs, surveys, and rasters are not selected; otherwise you may inadvertently delete files for another project or that belong to another user (if using a shared location).
6. Click , and from the Type drop-down list, select the curve
type for which to specify mnemonics. The mnemonic filtering you set up here takes place on the IHS Direct Connect server. Curves that don't match your selections aren't displayed in the catalog or downloaded during a bulk download.
If you're using the catalog instead of simply doing a bulk download, select all mnemonics for all types here and apply mnemonic filtering to the catalog after you've had a chance to review the results. There's no charge for populating a catalog.
Depending on the
volume of curve mnemonics you want to toggle, do any of the following:
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To select or clear all mnemonics for all curve types |
Above the curve mnemonic display pane, click |
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To select most of the mnemonics for one curve type |
Below the curve mnemonic display pane, click |
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To select only a few mnemonics |
Below the curve mnemonic display pane, click |
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To find a specific curve mnemonic or group of curve mnemonics |
Below the mnemonic display pane, select an operand in the Description drop-down list, and then type the search term. As you type, the curve mnemonics list scrolls to
and highlights the matching letters. You can't type wildcards to substitute for letters. |
The number of selected mnemonics for each curve type appears in the upper-right corner of the work pane.
7. Click 
to complete the catalog configuration, and then search for wells in your area of interest.
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