Create New Project

This article describes the workflow to follow to create a new project in Cintoo.

Permissions: only users with Project Manager role can create new projects.

Users with Administrator or Account Owner role can add themselves Project Manager role by following this workflow to be able to create new projects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Project Creation
Advanced Parameters - CRS, Transformations, Hosting

Project Creation

1. In My Projects, click Create project at the top-right corner.

If there is no Create project button visible on the top right corner of the My Projects page, then necessary permissions to create new projects are absent.
For more information, see: Setting Project Managers.

2. In Create project panel, fill in required fields and click Create. Fields marked by a red asterisk are obligatory to fill.

Account: account to host a project.

Subscription: subscription with a certain scan capacity that will be used for a project.

Name: name of a project.

Description: optional description of a project.

Cover image: optional thumbnail image for a project.

Location: project location defined as map coordinates or selected using map tool.

Advanced Parameters - CRS, Transformations, Hosting

Use CRS and transformations for correct placement of Cintoo projects within ESRI environment.

Note: by default no CRS is chosen for all projects.

Toggle Coordinate Reference System under Location to set a specific CRS.

Coordinate Reference System

Utility parameter for Cintoo + ESRI integration, that helps to position the data in ESRI project.

This parameter neither affects any data inside Cintoo project nor applies any transformations to the data inside Cintoo project.

Coordinate Transformation

Additional setting to configure either Affine parametric transformation with 6 A and B parameters to put in.

Or Similarity transformation with 4 parameters (ordinates, scale factor and rotation angle) to put in.

All parameters for transformations are required to perform corresponding transformations.

Data hosting

Defines where project files will be stored in the cloud. Discover more details: Hosting Options.

Note: it's recommended to choose a region that is geographically closest to the biggest part of the team working on a project, as latency and responsiveness of the platform depend on this choice.

Hosting provider is normally chosen according to company's preference.

Use a CDN for global data access - hosting is either in Europe or in US depending on Account location, with potential caching in any CDN (Content Delivery Network) point of presence. Choose this option when users working on a project are scattered across multiple physical locations.
Once Use a CDN for global data access is unchecked - from a drop-down menu it's possible to choose a specific country with a specific data center provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) depending on server locations.

Warning: this setting cannot be changed after the project is created.

3. New project will now be visible on My Projects page.
See this article for information about opening Cintoo projects: Open a Project.