Property preferences

When automatically adding logs of a specific property to a Well Correlation View, the application analyzes the names of the available logs to determine which logs should be displayed for the property type. The selection is made based on the log's name (alias), and the priority given to the name. A default list of aliases, which can be made up of whole words, acronyms and alphanumeric combinations, is used to determine the priority given to each name and, thus, which log should be displayed for a particular property.

The Preference tab of the Property Catalog displays the aliases used for each template and allows you to specify your own. When a track displaying a specific property type is added to the Well Correlation View, when a WCV template is applied, for example, the application uses the aliases specified in the System preference column to select the logs for display. If you have specified custom aliases in the User preference column, these are used in place of the system aliases when determining which logs to display. Being able to specify your own aliases allows you to ensure that the most relevant logs are displayed in the Well Correlation View.

Preferences tab columns

Template The property template associated with the aliases.

System preference The list of aliases that the system uses when selecting a log for display. For some templates, multiple aliases are specified, separated by a semicolon (;), in priority order. The first alias listed has the highest priority.

Wild-cards (*) can be used as part of the alias. Wild-cards can represent any number of characters, including no characters.

User preference Custom aliases can be specified in this column. When custom aliases are used, all aliases in the System preference column are ignored, and only the custom aliases are used in the log selection process.

When defining your own aliases, you can use a wild-card (*) if needed. Wild-cards can represent any number of characters, including no characters.

Ignore suffix Selecting this option will cause any characters appearing after the first underscore in the log name to be ignored as part of the log selection process.

Importing and exporting aliases

Import The import button allows importing an XML file format with aliases, the aliases in this file are appended to the existing aliases.

Overwrite The overwrite button allows importing an XML file format with user aliases, the aliases in this file replace the existing aliases.

Export The current user aliases are written to an XML file format. This can be imported on another computer or shared with colleagues.

Clear All user aliases are removed.

If you click Save as default catalog, your aliases get saved as the application defaults, just as for the templates and definitions.