Guided Tour of RouteWriter: Pushpin Data Fields
RouteWriter writes the names of waypoints with the option to include other information such as route distance and travel time.
Waypoints are usually created from pushpins. RouteWriter was designed to match waypoints with their pushpins, and to provide the option of writing the pushpin's data with each waypoint.
Writing Pushpin Data Fields
This example has a salesman's route with many sales stops across the US. The map (see right) shows the route. One of the waypoint's pushpins has been opened, illustrating that the pushpin has a number of data fields set. The pushpin has a name, street address, Contact data field, and Quantity data field. These data fields are useful to the salesman, and it will be useful if they are included in the final route itinerary.
To the right is the RouteWriter panel set to match waypoints with their pushpins, and to write the data fields out with the waypoint data. This is performed using the Cross-reference with pushpins and output data fields check box.
This option enables three other check boxes. Check Output Pushpin Coordinates if you would also like the pushpin's geographic map coordinates to be written to the output. Output Pushpin Street Address will write the pushpin's street address, if available. Note that the street address is usually also included in a pushpin's data fields, so it often duplicates data which will be written anyway. This occurs during this example, so the check box is unchecked. The final check box Resolve duplicate matching pushpins is explained in the next page of this tour, Handling Duplicate Pushpin Names.
Here are the results. Note that well as a sequence number, name, distance, time, and pushpin coordinate; the corresponding pushpin data fields (name, contact, street address, city, state, zip code, country, and quantity) are also written for each waypoint. None of the Notes data fields were set, so these have not been written.
Next, we look at how RouteWriter handles pushpins with duplicate names.
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