Condominiums are multi-client structures and, within OZmap, they can be found in two forms: vertical and horizontal.
Within each of them, you will need a series of equipment to serve them, such as Splitters for each floor, or even more elaborate structures. For this reason, condominium sales in OZloc are a little different.
Vertical Building
To add a new building, the first step is to open the elements menu and select the vertical condominium icon, as shown in the image:
Now, click on the point where you want to assign your condominium. With that, a window will open, in which you can define the name, address, labels, if it's implanted, and add comments.
The name will be the identification of the element within the map. This can be the building name or the condominium code within the CRM/ERP you use within your company.
The address does not define the location of the map, it is an observation field. This is very useful at the time of sale within OZloc, because, when you are making a sale, this information is sent to the installation team.
A tag is a way to group your items, placing them by categories.
By defining that a condominium is implanted, it is put up for sale.
The comments it's a free notes section that will be saved until deleted.
Once these adjustments are made, a green icon will appear on the map, representing your vertical building. It is similar to the following image:
The structure of a vertical building
With the building created, you'll need an external and internal structure so that you can provide the clients connections
The first step is to create an external connection that reaches the building. To do this you will need to create a structure with a POP, and configure the boxes and cables that will connect the elements.
Creating the outer part
Below we've created a very simple example just for demonstration purposes, with the sequence POP > CE > CTO > Condo. Everything is connected with a 1L6F cable (1 loose tube with 6 fibers).
Once the external structure is done and the cable is connected to the building, we will be ready to set up the internal structure of the building.
To do this, click on the building icon on the map and a new window will open.
Creating the inner part
This condominium edit window is very similar to the box edit. We recommend that you check out our article on box editing with the video showing the use of all the tools.
Inside the editing area, you will see that an element already exists. This is the cable that is coming from the building. You can check our box editing article to understand fiber representations better.
Let's say this building has only 2 floors with four rooms on each floor. To do this, I put a 1x2 splitter to pass a cable through each floor, and on these floors another 1x4 splitter to share a connection for each room.
To add splitters, simply click on the second icon in the bottom bar (where the mouse is in the image below).
When clicked, a window will open to choose the type of splitter to use. If you want a splitter that is not listed, you can create one with the references you want through the "Splitters" tab in the menu to the left of the map. Even after the creation, it is possible to change the splitter type individually, from the "Properties" window of that element.
Adding clients
By making the connection available through a network distributor, in this case splitters, it is possible to sell buildings through OZloc.
To add a client directly at OZmap, you will use the first icon to the left of the bottom menu (where the mouse is in the image below).
Clicking will open a window requesting the client code, status, tags, deployment status, observations, ONU details, and further down the property details.
After adding the client's information, you will be able to place the client within the editing area. It will be represented by a rectangle with your name and code inside.
To connect the client, simply click on the splitter ball you want and drag it to the client connection and you're done.
If the status of a client within the building is "Error", the outline of this client will be displayed in red, as in the case of the client with code 1548 in the example shown below.
On the map, the building will change from green to red, and can also be seen in the "Problems" tab.
For more information about clients with issues, click here.
Export diagrams
For future reference, it is possible to export the internal diagrams that contain all the equipment and information of your buildings individually or of several buildings at the same time. To learn how to work with the tool, click here.
Add files
To add files to your vertical buildings, access the side icon responsible for posts and select "New Post." You can use image files, audios, videos, text files, csv and zip files.
For more details on creating and using posts, click here.
Horizontal condominium
The horizontal condominium represents areas where we can find several houses or buildings, located horizontally within the same land. Therefore everything that is within its area defined in OZmap will be considered part of the same condominium.
To add a new horizontal condominium, simply select the following icon on the map:
Then, click on the map drawing all the space it houses.
Clicking “Save” at the top of the screen will open a new window allowing you to configure fields such as name, tags, color customization, address, and comments, similar to what is done with vertical condominiums.
Once created, it will appear on the map according to the previously selected area, and to turn its display on and off, you just need to enable the "Horizontal Condominiums" layer in the right-side menu.
As for the structuring, it will be done similarly to the rest of the map, inside you can create boxes, cables, clients, and all other necessary elements.
Visually, the already configured horizontal condominium will appear like this in your system:
In its area, we will also have some particularities regarding the use of Loki (to learn more, click here) and the vertical condominium.
When you click on the area with the right mouse button, two options appear, one is "Remove condominium" and the other to "Open condominium".
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Selecting the second option will display a window, where it is possible to alter the condominium configurations or take a report with the information of all the inserted elements. This report is the same as the "Area Report" and has all the same tools.
In this same window, you can also edit the area of your condominium, simply by clicking on the "Edit Area" button, as shown in the image below:
Condominium importation
Both horizontal and vertical condominiums can be imported into OZmap as they are registered in KML or CSV files.
To learn how to import files, click here.