Location Tab: Set up Borehole Symbols, Edit Text, and Overwrite Settings
- Default Borehole Symbol: Select a default symbol design for all of the boreholes.
- Edit-Text: Use these settings to define how any Edit-Text fields are to be brought into RockWorks.
- Ignore: Click this option if none of the Edit-Text fields are to be imported.
- Add to Comments: Click this option to list the Edit-Text information to each borehole's Comments field (Location table).
- Map to Optional Fields: Choose this option to write Edit-Text information to specific Location table fields.
- On the left you'll see a listing of the Edit-Text field names in the LogPlot data file being used as the formatting template.
- For each Edit-Text item to be imported, click on the down-arrow in the cell to the right to choose the Location table field where it is to be recorded. You can add a new field on the fly by choosing the <Add a New Field> option in the field name list, and creating the desired field.
- If the Borehole Exists: Use these settings to tell RockWorks what to do if the borehole already exists in the database.
- Skip Existing Record: If a borehole exists in the RockWorks database that has the same name as a LogPlot data file, the importer will skip that file.
Example: If there is already a well named "BH23" in the project, the program will not import data from the LogPlot file "BH23.ldat8".
- Create New Record: If a borehole exists in the RockWorks database that has the same name as a LogPlot data file, the importer will create a new borehole record, with a new name, appending "_1".
Example: If there is already a borehole named "BH23" in the project, and you're importing data from a LogPlot data file "BH23.ldat8", RockWorks will create a new record named "BH23_1" and import the data into that new record.
- Replace Existing Record: If a borehole exists in the RockWorks database that has the same name as a LogPlot data file, the importer will delete all existing data for that hole and replace it with the data from the LogPlot file.
Example: If there is already a borehole named "BH23" in the project, and you're importing data from a LogPlot data file "BH23.ldat8", the importer will delete all data for that hole from the database, and replace it with the data from the LogPlot file. The original borehole record will be completely replaced.
! Be sure about this. All existing data for existing boreholes will be lost.
- Update Existing Record: If a borehole exists in the RockWorks database that has the same name as a LogPlot data file, the importer will not delete that well's data before import. Instead it will add new data types to the borehole. Any existing data types in the borehole will be replaced.
Example: There is already a well named "BH23" in the project, and you're importing data from a LogPlot data file "BH23.ldat8". You configure the import for:
- New Edit Text data, adding new Optional location fields - they will be appended to the Location table. (Note that the other location data will be replaced.)
- New P-Data tracks - they will be appended to the existing data.
- Any other mapped data types - Lithology, Stratigraphy, etc. - will be replaced. If you don't want to re-import any of those, don't map them for import, as described in the following topics.
- Click the Next button to continue.
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