Record Pdop etc. with simple setup?

[PatrickMurphy]

HI all,
I am running ArcPad 8 on an HP211 using a RoyalTek bluetooth data logger to record points etc.  It is WAAS enabled so I get DGPS. I can see that pdop is calculated when I go to the various satellite screens, but I want it to be recorded when I collect a point. Is there an easy way to record these values automatically in an attribute when saving a point using the GPS? Or is it already in the shape file somewhere?

Maybe there is some script out there that will automatically tranfer the info into the attribute table if I add those items beforehand?

Thanks,
Pat

[KhalidMehmood]

HI all,
I am running ArcPad 8 on an HP211 using a RoyalTek bluetooth data logger to record points etc.  It is WAAS enabled so I get DGPS. I can see that pdop is calculated when I go to the various satellite screens, but I want it to be recorded when I collect a point. Is there an easy way to record these values automatically in an attribute when saving a point using the GPS? Or is it already in the shape file somewhere?

Maybe there is some script out there that will automatically tranfer the info into the attribute table if I add those items beforehand?

Thanks,
Pat

Check this out

http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=16785

[EricHajek1]

That script is pretty cool, but if you just wanted to record a single property of the GPS signal, such as PDOP, it might be easier to just reference the GPS Object. For instance:

editForm.Fields("PDOPField").value = GPS.Properties("PDOP")

in your edit form's onload event would capture the PDOP when the point is taken. Search for "GPS Object" in the help to see the other properties you can pull from the GPS object.

Good luck,
Eric

[deleted-user-5rGCC1WKrhju]

How would I incorporate this command into an existing .apl?  I've taken my target shapefile and added a "PDOP" field.  Here is the existing code I'm using.

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<ArcPad>
<LAYER name="Point_Collection.shp">
  <FORMS>
   <EDITFORM name="EDITFORM" caption="Point_collection" width="130" height="80" attributespagevisible="false" symbologypagevisible="false" geographypagevisible="false" picturepagevisible="true" required="false">
    <PAGE name="PAGE1" caption="Page 1">
     <LABEL name="LABEL1" x="21" y="3" width="24" height="12" caption="Type" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <COMBOBOX name="Type" x="45" y="1" width="84" height="12" defaultvalue="" listtable="" listvaluefield="" listtextfield="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="TYPE">
      <LISTITEM value="Sign" text="Sign"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Other" text="Other"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Slab" text="Slab"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Fence" text="Fence"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Parking Lot" text="Parking Lot"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Building" text="Building"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Generator" text="Generator"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Gate" text="Gate"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Tank" text="Tank"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Rec Feature" text="Rec Feature"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Water Utility" text="Water Utility"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Sewer Utility" text="Sewer Utility"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Comm Utility" text="Comm Utility"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Electric Utility" text="Eletric Utility"/>
      <LISTITEM value="Monitoring Well" text="Monitoring Well"/>
     </COMBOBOX>
     <LABEL name="LABEL3" x="5" y="18" width="38" height="12" caption="Comments" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="Comments" x="45" y="18" width="84" height="38" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="Comments"/>
    </PAGE>
   </EDITFORM>
  </FORMS>
</LAYER>
</ArcPad>

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Would I just insert the command somewhere?

editForm.Fields("PDOP").value = GPS.Properties("PDOP")