The Spatial Location Scanning tool is used to extract spatial information from the files associated to documents within a ProjectWise datasource, then to store this spatial information in the datasource and assign the information to the processed document. Spatial locations of Images can also be batch assigned, based on attribute tags.

In order to scan a file with the Spatial Location Scanning tool, you must have Write and File Read privileges to the document in question. Also, the status of the document must be checked in for the scanning process to work. If a document is ignored by the scanning process, it will not be specified in the log file. However, the log file information clearly underlines the access and status constraints.