Ag Leader SMS Mobile Start Guide

Quick Reference Guide
Operating Modes
SMS™ Mobile Operating Modes
This document covers the general functionality of all operating modes in SMS Mobile:
Main Operating Mode/Map Screen Map Toolbar and Action Buttons Map Layers Map Tooltips Map Settings Tools Common to All Operating Modes Navigation View Boundary Mode Soil Sampling Mode Coverage Logging Mode General Logging Mode Crop Scouting Mode
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Status Bar
Hide/Show Toolbar
Action Button
See Section 2
Action Buttons
See Section 2
Main Menu
Map Toolbar
See Section 2
Navigation
View
GPS Status
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Map (Selected Layers)
See Sections 3 and 5
Map Tooltips
See Section 4
Action Button Menu
Main Operating Mode/Map Screen [Back to Top]
SMS Mobile uses the same concept and layout for all modes of operation in terms of map display and available tools. This makes operation from mode to mode very consistent and easy to pick up. The images below show the general layout of the operating/map screens and key items that are displayed on these screens.
Windows Mobile Device Screens:
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Zoom In
Zoom Out
Main Menu
Map (Selected Layers)
See Sections 3 and 5
Action Button
See Section 2
Navigation
View
Status Bar
Map Tooltips
See Section 4
GPS Status
Action Buttons
See Section 2
Map Toolbar
See Section 2
Windows PC Screens:
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Map Toolbar and Action Buttons [Back to Top]
Map Toolbar
The map toolbar allows you to quickly select an available tool without expanding the Main Menu on a Windows Mobile device or using the menu items on a PC based device to find your desired tool. Arrow buttons are provided on each side of the toolbar that also allow you to quickly scroll thru the available toolbar buttons or you can use the left/right buttons on your mobile devices directional pad to scroll the toolbar. For SMS Mobile PC the toolbar related items are located under the Help Menu and then Toolbar.
The Map Toolbar can be customized per operating mode. To edit what buttons are available in the toolbar, from within an operating mode, go to the Main Menu and select Toolbar and then Set Visible Tools. You will then be able to check/uncheck the buttons that you would like to be visible. You can NOT change the order of the buttons though.
In addition you can also set a default tool that the toolbar will scroll to when you select another tool as your active tool. For example if when you Add Point, you always want to see the Save button on the toolbar by default you can set Save as the linked tool for the Add Point tool. To do this, go to the Main Menu and select Toolbar and then Set Linked Tool (Help Toolbar for SMS Mobile PC). From here you can set the linked tools for any tool that can have another tool linked to it.
The Map Toolbar does automatically filter itself based on the current tool that is selected. This means that when you select a tool, only other tools that can be used while that tool is active will be displayed in the toolbar.
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Icon
Name
Description
Field Operations
Start Logging
Starts continuous data logging without having to make any other selection. Only available when logging/creating data from GPS.
Log a Point or
Region
Adds a point or vertex manually each time this button is selected. Or in Crop Scouting Mode adds an Observation Region based on the default diameter you have set.
All Modes
Pause
Pauses the current logging/creation of data. Pausing also puts you into a basic navigation mode where the pause point is marked and a line is drawn between the current position and pause point.
All Modes
Next Item
Increments to the next spatial object that is available. For example, when navigating to soil sampling sites this button selects the next available sample site that is either closest or next in order.
All Modes
Previous Item
Increments to the previous spatial object that is available. For example, when navigating to soil sampling sites this button selects the previous sample site that is either closest or the previous site in order.
All Modes
Stop Tool
Stops the current logging/creation/function of the current tool. For example if you are drawing a polygon selecting Stop will finalize the polygon and create it.
All Modes
Cancel Tool
Cancels the currently selected tool. To finish a function you must always select Cancel. Cancel is never available until a tool is stopped.
All Modes
Action Buttons [Back to Top]
The Action Buttons, shown below, indicate what specific actions are available for the tool that you have currently selected in an operating mode. There are a maximum of three action buttons that can be displayed at a time for a selected tool. The first action button is always displayed in the lower right corner of the on-screen map, for easy access. The remaining action buttons, if available, will display to the right in the Map Toolbar.
The Action Buttons are also accessible via the Action Menu button, at all times, in the lower left side of the mobile device screen. SMS Mobile PC displays these Action buttons via a menu selection in the top left hand corner of the window.
See the Action Button descriptions below:
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Map Layers
SMS Mobile provides the ability to display multiple layers on a map at one time when in an operating mode. Four layers are allowed to be mapped at one time. The first, or top layer, is always the editable/logging layer where new data is created or existing data is edited. The next three layers can be set to whatever data you have loaded into SMS Mobile, such as field boundaries, backgrounds, or other datasets you have imported, created, or setup from the desktop software.
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When selecting layers to display below the editing/logging layer you have the following options:
None – No data will be displayed at all for this layer.  Dataset Layer – Allows the selection of any data that has been created or imported
into SMS Mobile or exported out from the desktop software that isn’t background type data. An example would be Grain Harvest data, Soil Type data, Soil Sampling sites/results, etc.
Background Layer – Allows the selection of either a Farm background, Field
background, or to download/load a background image from the internet. The option to download an image from the internet only works initially if you have an internet connection for your device. Once an image is downloaded it remains in memory as a special type of background that is tied to the current field but is ONLY available for use in SMS Mobile and only visible when this option is selected. Once an image is downloaded an internet connection is NOT required to use this option or display the background image. Tools for managing these special background images are available under Setup\ \ Batch or General.
Field Boundary Layer – Allow the selection of either current field level boundary for
display or all field level boundaries for the current Farm.
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Hide/Show
Layer
User Selectable
Layers
Edit/Logging Layer
A unique function of the map layers, is that once you have selected a type of data to map in one of the available layer slots, SMS Mobile will automatically keep track of what type of data you selected for the current operating mode. When you switch to a different field to collect/edit data, SMS Mobile will automatically try and find the same type of data for the
field and display it for you so that you don’t have to reselect data you want to see each time
you switch fields, create new datasets, or open and close SMS Mobile.
In addition to selecting layers to display, you also have a large number of options in terms of how the selected layers are displayed on the map. Each layer selected has a Settings button that when selected allows you to set parameters for how the layer is drawn on the map. Examples include if a label should be displayed and how, what attribute should be used for a legend for the layer and how it looks, and lastly, settings for the display of sub-layers such as Marks and Buffers.
To get to the layer selection and settings for your map layers when you are in an operating mode you can either press the Select Layers button on the Map Toolbar or you can open the Main Menu, then Map, and then Select Layers.
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Map Tooltips
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SMS Mobile provides the ability to display real-time values/stats from a selected layer while you are in an operating mode. We call this display of real-time values from a selected layer Map Tooltips. These tooltips are displayed below the map and Status Bar. On Windows Mobile devices the map tooltips share the same area as the map toolbar. When you hide the Map Toolbar the Map Tooltips are displayed. On a Windows PC device the tooltips are displayed at the same time as the map toolbar but above it and the tooltips area isn’t displayed at all unless you have at least one tooltip set to display.
Two Map Tooltips can be selected for display. You can pick any of the mapped layers to use as the source for your tooltip and you can pick a Spatial Stat, Attribute, or Property to show a value for.
Map Tooltips get their values two different ways, depending on the layer type. If the layer is the Edit layer (the first layer in the list and one the one you create/log/edit data in) then the values come from the last logged/entered value. If the layer is one of the 3 other Reference layers then the values come from the object that is currently under your current GPS position.
Map Tooltips are very useful on the smaller screens of mobile devices because there really isn’t room to show full legends for all your layers on the screen. So by using map tooltips you can see the color coding of your layers and as you drive across an object that is below you, you will see the actual value for the item you selected to display, thus in a way showing you a legend value without taking up extra space on the screen.
To get to the Map Tooltips and set them, press the Map Tooltips button on the Map Toolbar or go to the Main Menu, then Map, then Select Tooltips.
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