OpenIntent

Learn about OpenIntent, and how it can be used to import and export designs in Hamina Network Planner.

OpenIntent is an open-source, community-developed data schema that describes wireless network designs. The primary purpose of OpenIntent is to deploy network equipment to any network infrastructure, regardless of which tool was used to design the network.

Hamina Network Planner can both export and import OpenIntent schema in the form of a .zip file. While the original purpose of the schema is to describe the network for deployment, it can also be used for general-purpose project importing, exporting, and project data manipulation.

You can use Import/Export OpenIntent to:

  • Back up projects outside of Hamina

  • Share a project with other users, outside of Hamina

  • Export the project with use with another design tool 😭

  • Import a project from another design tool 😁

  • Move design projects from Hamina instance to another

  • Programmatically extract data from the project

  • Programmatically add data to the project

Since the purpose of OpenIntent is to describe a network design for the purposes of deployment, it does not include site survey data or network measurements. Site survey data is outside the scope of the OpenIntent development project.

Support Matrix

Hamina Network Planner, for Import and Export, supports a subset of OpenIntent's capabilities. In rarer cases, OpenIntent does not support Hamina Network Planner's capabilities. As a result, some project elements are lost when a project is exported from Hamina, or will not be included on import from Hamina.

Export
Import

Country

Not supported in schema

Not supported in schema

Maps

Scale

GPS Coordinates

Home Marker

Map Notes

Not implemented in Hamina

Not implemented in Hamina

In/Out of Scope Zones

Capacity Zones

Walls

Locations

Color

Material Type

Top height from floor

Bottom height from floor

Fill Top and Bottom

Transparency in 3D

Not supported in schema

Not supported in schema

Attenuating Objects

Attenuating Objects

Not implemented in Hamina

Not implemented in Hamina

Multifloor and Raised Floors

Floor Alignment

Floor Height

Sloped and Raised Floors

Access Points

Location

Make and Model

Color

Name (Resolved)

Name (Unresolved)

Name exported in resolved state

Height

Mounting Type

Not supported in schema

⚠️ Populated with AP model default

Direction (Azimuth)

Not implemented in Hamina

Downtilt (Elevation)

Not implemented in Hamina

Channel

Transmit Power

MAC and Serial Number

Connected via Ethernet

Resolves to static setting

Power allocation from switch

⚠️ Populated with AP model default

Wired Infrastructure

Switches

Total Ports

Power Budget

Routers, IDFs, MDFs

Cables

Calculated at import

Cable Trays

Not supported in schema

Not supported in schema

Cable Risers

Not supported in schema

Not supported in schema

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