Expert Training

The Expert level training course is intended for those individuals who perform the database administration activities within their company. The responsibilities of these users include the following:

• Populating the PipeCraft database with the company’s asset information
• Managing security
• Setting up the PipeCraft GIS interface

Expert level users have limited access to most PipeCraft functions, as their work focuses on setting security levels, as well as performing upper-level system integrity functions. These functions include creating new pipeline and ROW (right-of-way) systems, assigning inspection routes and resources, and digitizing new pipelines. Therefore, this course does not cover topics such as administration and asset functions. The work of data entry and data manipulation for these components is not included either as most of the data entry is performed by other personnel. These topics are covered in the other PipeCraft courses, as appropriate.

Course Details

The material for this course includes:

• A brief review of material covered in the Executive, Integrity Manager, and Project Engineer level courses.
• An overview of the GIS map layers including a definition of the different types of layers, introduction to feature attributes and background layers, and information on creating a layer display order and modifying the features of the default layers.
• Information on digitizing assets that builds on the digitizing material introduced in the Project Engineer training level. This includes an overview of the different methods of digitizing in PipeCraft.

Prerequisites

In order to attend this course, students must be comfortable working in a Microsoft Windows environment. They must also complete the Executive, Integrity Manager, and Project Engineer courses before they continue with the Expert course.