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.

This table only considers OpenIntent 2.0. It does not include OpenIntent 1.0, and OpenIntent 1.0 support is not documented in the Hamina knowledgebase.

	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