Web-based Solutions for Enterprisewide Geospatial Requirements

Implementation
The first step towards implementing a successful enterprisewide web based solution is creating enterprisewide requirements and user interface document, this will ensure the inclusion of each department’s requirement that will be part of the solution. The Web View solution being addressed in this paper is one that provides access to facilities management systems, maintenance, materials management, customer information, and customer care. It will provide the user drill down, work type selection, locates and query, external application launches and other functionality required to support the business processes. The functionalities required for such an implementation are:

Configuring the Web product with Internet Explorer and configuring the web server.
Web product interface with work management and Document Management. Users will be able to launch the work management product from the Web seat, View and query pending and completed work orders, as they exist in the history tables updated by work management. The users will be able to create work order numbers from the Web product that are passed on to work management.
Web product configuration to perform the following basic functionality as described in the above diagram:
1. Display a login form for users from different District Offices. This page is activated by accessing the URL for the Web application from Internet Explorer. The following controls are available on the Log-in Page:
  
  User ID. This text box allows the user to enter a valid user ID.
  Password. This text box allows the user to enter a valid password corresponding to the already-entered user ID.
  Office. This drop-down list allows the user to select an area office location.
  Company. This read-only text box automatically displays the company name based on the selected area office.
  Login. This command button submits the entered user ID and password for validation.
  Reset. This command button clears the text from both the User ID and Password controls.
2. Display a form to capture the types of work or queries to be performed (Compression facilities, Meter facilities, and Pipeline location).
  
  This page is activated by entering a valid user ID, password, and area office on the Log-in Page. When the log-in information is submitted and verified, the user is automatically redirected to the Facility Selection Page. The following controls are available on this page:
  
  Compressor Station Site. This radio button allows the user to limit the query selection to only the Find Compressor Station Site query. This radio button is the default selection.
  
  Meter Site. This radio button allows the user to limit the query selection to only the Find Meter Site query.
  
  Block Valve. This radio button allows the user to limit the query selection to only the Find Block Valve query.
  
  Other Sites. This radio button allows the user to limit the query selection to only the Find Site query.
  
  Other Features. This radio button allows the user to limit the query selection to the following:
  
  — Find Stationing Series.
  — Find Valve.
  — Find Political Boundary.
  — Find Hydrology.
  — Find Encroachment.
  — Find Well.
  — Find Regulatory Structure.
  — Find Alignment Sheet Boundary.
  — Find Operational Boundary.
  — Locate by XY
  
  Continue. This command button submits the current facility selection and redirects the user to the main page where the appropriate queries are displayed.