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How To Lock / Unlock Alignment

Multiple alignments or Routes within a close proximity can cause our system to try and determine which alignment is applicable. To override that you can lock which alignment or route in order to provide you with accurate location

Tip: see the "Adding a Project to your Account" article to see ways to search and open a project

Station Locking

The Locking feature is only available on projects where we have Station/MM/LRS information for that location.  If this is something you are not seeing on your project and have this information available to provide to us, please submit this information to us via the Project Submission Process - Submit Project Updates section..  

  1. Open the project within OnStation
  2. Within the Station Finder, if no alignment is currently selected, tap on the                         "Select an Alignment" option  

    1. Now that you've tapped "Select an alignment" you should see a list of alignments that exist within the project.



3.  Next find the alignment you with to lock on to.

a. "Lock" will lock the alignment regardless of where you move on the map.

b. "Jump" will take you to that alignment, either at the beginning or your choice of location, AND lock on to the alignment. After selecting "Jump" you will be prompted to input what Station or Mile Marker you would like to jump to.  

    You can also leave the Station info blank, and then tap  "Go to Location" and it         will take you to the very beginning of that alignment 

  2. 4.   Once you have selected an alignment and a specific station location, you will notice that the lock icon next to the alignment name has changed from a 
        "Green unlocked icon" to a "Yellow locked icon"
  4. 6.  You will notice if you start to navigate the map, that the station location will continue to update as you move around but the alignment itself will stay locked onto that specific alignment and display the "Yellow locked icon"
  6. 7.   From this point on you could do multiple things
    1. Toggle from locked to unlocked by simply tapping the lock icon
    2. Select another alignment via the list and type in a specific station location ( Yellow locked icon will remain enabled)
    3. Tap on the lock icon to unlock it, then walk or drive to another station and tap on the lock again to relock

 

Every team and every person may have a different way to incorporate this feature into there workflow, but the main objective for this tool is to make your jobs easier and hopefully safer. If there is any way we can build on those core goals, we'd love to hear your feedback!

As always we are here to help and make OnStation as easy to use as possible for you and your team. It is a goal of ours to reach a point where our app is your favorite tool on-site!

If you have any questions, our support team is just a text, phone call or submission form away! Do not hesitate to reach our with any inquires or suggestions you may have.

 

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