You can create a link that links directly to a pole or other network model asset in a project. These are often called deep links.

How it works

When a user opens one of these links:

the Neara web app opens in the browser
they are prompted to login, or authenticate with single sign-on if configured,
once logged in the project containing the asset is automatically loaded, and
the Perspective view zooms to the location of the asset, and highlights it.

In this video watch how a direct link is created, and then accessed in a new browser tab:

Get the direct link to an asset

Locate the asset like a pole or conductor in the 3D Perspective view.

A quick way to locate a pole if you know its label is to press the forward-slash key

( / ) on your keyboard, and then type its label.

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Select the Move & Select tool on the toolbar, and click the asset to highlight it:

On the Properties tab, click Get link to this selection:

The link will be copied to the clipboard.

Manually create direct links to assets

If you need to generate links outside of Neara, you can manually create these types of direct links.

For example, you might have a business dashboard that references assets in your Neara network model. The dashboard could include one or more direct links to those assets. These could make it easy for your team to quickly drill down from the dashboard into Neara to inspect the asset in more detail, and in context with your network model.

By inspecting a link created using the above method, you'll notice it is a standard Neara project link, with two additional parameters:

assetId:<ASSET_GLOBAL_ID>
load:lat=<LATITUDE>,lng=<LONGITUDE>

e.g.

https://app.neara.com/powerapp#designId:<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>&assetId:<ASSET_GLOBAL_ID>&load:lat=<LATITUDE>,lng=<LONGITUDE>

where:

<YOUR_PROJECT_ID> is your project's ID, and which is always visible in the URL when working in your project
<ASSET_GLOBAL_ID> is the unique, global ID for the asset being linked to. This may or may not match the label assigned to the asset, depending on your configuration. If you're unsure about how to find the global ID for assets in your project, contact us.
<LATITUDE> and <LONGITUDE> are the latitude and longitude values at the location of the asset. For performance reasons Neara does normally automatically load datasets when a project is opened. Adding these parameters ensures that Neara loads the dataset relevant to the asset at that location when a user opens the project from a direct link, for a smooth experience.

You can also zoom to a location in the Perspective view from a direct link without specifying and highlighting an asset.

In this case, use only this additional parameter:

zoom:lat=<LATITUDE>,lng=<LONGITUDE>

e.g.

https://app.neara.com/powerapp#designId:<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>&zoom:lat=<LATITUDE>,lng=<LONGITUDE>

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