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Adding Inspection Photographs to Objects

Photographs taken as part of an inspection can be included with many objects in APM, including assets, checksheets, failure modes, indicators, and readings, failure and anomaly events, and root cause analyses. Picture files must be in one of the following formats: JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, or PNG.

Adding a photograph involves browsing for and selecting the file. When you click Open, the image is added as a thumbnail to the object. You can then open the Inspection Photo dialog to provide information about the image.

All inspection photographs are embedded in the APM database. Therefore, because some image files can be quite large, you can set the default pixel dimensions for inspection photographs stored in APM. For more information, see Setting the Inspection Photograph Maximum Size.

There is also a setting that applies to all images added to HTML controls in APM. See Setting up the Maximum Size for Images.

You can also save inspection photographs that are stored in the APM database as separate files in their native file formats to the location of your choice. You can specify asset type and asset folders to stores photos.

Tip: You can view all of the inspection photographs for the site in one place. On the Site window, select the Assets view and the Photos tab. This tab shows thumbnail images of the photographs, as well as the asset, name, subject, caption, date taken, date added to APM, and the employee who added the photograph. You cannot add photographs on this tab.

This topic explains how:

•	To Add an Inspection Photograph to an Object

•	To Work with Inspection Photographs

•	To Save an Inspection Photograph as a Separate File

For information about adding photographs to inspection reports, see Adding a Photograph to an Inspection Report.

To Add an Inspection Photograph to an Object

1.	Open the object to which you want to add an inspection photograph.

2.	Select the appropriate view or dialog and tab(s) for the object that you are accessing. For example:

Object	View/Dialog	Tab Name(s)
Asset	Properties view	Photos
Checksheet	Readings view	Inspection Photos
Indicator	Readings view	Inspection Photos
Indicator reading	Indicator Reading dialog	Photos
Inspection report	Inspection report view	Photos
Failure event	Properties view	Photos
Anomaly event	Photos view
Root cause analysis (RCA)	Definition view	Photos
Maintenance Action Plan	Photos view
Safety override incident	Properties view	Photos

These tabs list a thumbnail of each photograph, its asset, name, subject, caption, date taken, date added, and the employee who added the photograph. In the case of checksheets, the Inspection Photos tab also includes the rating, indicator name, value collected, alarm, and alarm type. In the case of maintenance action plans, the photo is also identified by the failure mode and its asset.

Tip: Assets can also reference folders where photos and other documents are stored.

Tip: You can also click in the photos tab to see individual photos in the forms view. Use the navigation buttons at the bottom of the table to move between photos.

3.	Click Browse at the bottom of the tab. In the Open dialog that appears, navigate to the photograph file and select it. Click Open. The image is added to the tab.

Tip: You can also drag and drop photograph files onto the Photos or Inspection Photos tab. The photograph is added to the tab.

Here is an example of an asset’s Photo tab:

To Work with Inspection Photographs

1.	Select the appropriate tab and locate the photograph that you wish to work with.

2.	Double-click the inspection photograph. The Inspection Photo dialog appears. For example:

 

3.	Make sure that editing is enabled.

4.	On the Photo tab, you can view the photograph and edit the Subject, Caption, Date Taken, and Rating.

5.	Select the Properties tab. For example:

 

6.	View or edit the following information:

Setting Name

Description

Photo name

The identification name of the inspection photo.

Asset

The source asset of the inspection photograph.

Subject

Description of the subject of the inspection photograph. APM creates a default subject based on the asset and date taken. The content can be modified.

Caption

Caption for the inspection photograph.

Date Taken

The date and time stamp on the image file.

Rating

The rating for the inspection photograph. Possible values are: blank (no rating), *, **, ***, ****, or *****.

7.	In the Image Details area, you can view the source filename, name, file extension, file dimensions, map coordinates, and thumbnail.

8.	You can browse to display a map and identify the location where the photograph was taken, or you can enter the image’s map coordinates manually.

Note: If GPS coordinates are saved with the file’s properties, those map coordinates are automatically entered for you, otherwise the system finds the first non-null coordinate values from the indicator reading, then to the indicator, and then to the first parent asset in the hierarchy, and populates the coordinates.

9.	In the Comments box, you can enter information to be included with the photograph.

10.	Select the Source tab to view inspection details such as the asset, checksheet, indicator, indicator reading, failure, failure mode, and root cause analysis on which this photograph is included.

11.	When you are finished, close the Inspection Photo dialog.

To Save an Inspection Photograph as a Separate File

1.	Open the object associated with the inspection photo, for example, the site, asset, checksheet, or indicator.

2.	Go to a location where you can view the photo.

3.	Right-click the image and click Save Photo:

4.	In the Save Photo dialog, select the folder where you wish to store the file. The options are:

•	Select Save to folder. Click the folder icon to browse to and select a folder

•	Select Save to the asset’s photo folder. The file will be saved to the folder that has been designated as the asset’s photo folder

5.	Click OK. The file is saved with its original file name, format, and file extension.