This presentation is useful for making sites tab file and work-space in advance form. Prepared by Engineer Inayatul Haq Yousafzai

1. MapInfo Workspace
Procedure of Making a workspace for sites
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2. What is MapInfo Workspace
We can make workspace to incorporate all data related to sites in
MapInfo tab form and use to:
• Do nbr and frequency planning easily
• Sites location hunting
• Checking KPIs of cells easily
• Checking site configuration
• etc
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3. Procedure for making Workspace
We must have the following files and tools:
1)- All south BSCs stats of busy hour from PRS for one latest week .
2)- South Sites 2G,3G trackers which shared by Mr. Mobin bhai
3)- PTML cell site South shared by Mr.Faraz bhai
4)- MapInfo software (Installed)
5)- Microsoft office Software (Installed )
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4. Procedure Cont..
Steps:
• From the above data sheets we will make three sheets of excel and
save in “MS excel 2003 workbook” format.
• Three files names are:
1)- GTC Work Sheet
2)- Planned Sites Work Sheet
3)- Down Sites Work sheet
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5. 1)-Making of GTC (Fans) work sheet
• GTC Work Sheet will prepare by incorporating data from different DB
Sheets as m/b :
a)- Paste the heading on top row of blanked xl sheet.
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7. For the above first snap of heading we will incorporate data from the
sheets below or any data base which contain this data:
b)- For the 2nd and 3rd snap of heading we will incorporate data from
BSCs stats:
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8. Procedure : select all south BSCs, mark check on all KPIS, location,
select day wise busy hours and one week (dates), extract export then
download it.
Now do some changes to that sheet I name it “stats sheet”
i. Delete top and bottom row, separate time from date of first column
ii. Now make columns of Required KPIs as shown in 2nd and 3rd heading
snap
Procedure: Select all workspace of stats and apply formula (Alt+DPRF)
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• Only draw CI and required KPIS (Avg values) as shown in below snaps.
(Reason for doing this is to make column of required KPIS in average ).

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11. • Now copy all these column of KPIS (from stats sheet) and paste (as
paste special-values) in new sheet ( I name it KPIS sheet).
• Then apply Vlookup to each column of GTC fans to paste values from
(KPIS sheet).
Note: Remove formulas after completing Vlookup or convert to
numbers by paste (as paste special-values) .
 Hence all type of data has incorporated from different Data Bases
and our “GTC fans work sheet” did completed.
But we have to delete two types of sites from this “GTC fans work
sheet”
i. Planned sites …(Check from 2G South sites of Mobin bhai or any sheet).
ii. Down sites ……(check from “daily network outages report shared by NOC”
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12. 2)- To Make Planned Sites Sheet
Procedure: Copy these columns “Site ID, Log/Lat” from sheet of sites
which contain Sites status--- (planned sites) and paste it in new xl sheet
and save it in 2003 workbook format.
3)- To make Down sites sheet
Open this sheet
Then open this encircled workspace
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13. • Do filter column of “region” and select south region (S1,S2,S3).
• Now copy these columns to new sheet name “Down Sites Sheet”
i. Site id , ii. Major category (down reason), iii region .
• Now apply vlookup to new column again site ID and paste “Lat/Long” from
any sheet or data base which contains coordinates.
Hence The “Down sites sheet” is ready so save it in 2003 workbook format to
same folder of other two sheets.
→ So, All the three xls sheets (GTC Fans, planned sites, Down sites) are ready.
Now wel will make Tab file (MapInfo).
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14. • Tab file of GTC will in Fans shapes
• Down and Planned sites will be in Dots (Points Shape).
• Make Tab File of GTC Fans :
Procedure:
Open MapInfo software →click file →click open (as per below snaps)
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15. • Now Upload the GTC fans sheet from folder (containing the three
sheets) as per below snap
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Do as shown in below snap

17. • After clicking OK” in the above snap this window will be appeared and
do as shown
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18. • Appears this window
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19. • Now click table→ wiFi site see
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20. • Then click create boundaries
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22. • This workspace appears in MapInfo:
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23. How to do cosmetic changes
Cell Labels
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24. • By clicking cell labels below window appears ,do as encircled
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25. 2)- TO Make Planned Sites Tabfile and workspace (MapInfo)
• Planned sites:
• Procedure : open MapInfo Software →File→ open….see below in
snaps
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28. Points are ready labeling and displaying is same as shown above
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29. 3)-Making Down sites sheet
Procedure is same as shown above for Planned sites.
Color of points will be red.
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30. • All three sheets and their tab files are ready , now we will go ahead to
make Workspace.
• Procedure: open MapInfo software→file→ open→ folder of all tab
files and select all three files then click open (all files will open in
MapInfo workspace in their respective shapes i.e points and
fans)→save
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