How to use the MEPLANS archive
1.
Select an archive to search from the menu:
Choose “Archive List” from the menu to see descriptions of the contents of the available archives.
2.
Enter your Filter Criteria, then click Apply:
This will limit the list of plan sets shown in the table to those meeting the filter criteria.
All of the filters except for the Planset Type are case-insensitive, “open-text” filters. This means you can put in a partial value and it will return all records that have the partial text in that field. The more complete the filter text, the fewer records are returned.
Combinations of filters further reduce the number of records returned from the archive search.
Using the Planset Type filter:
Planset Type is a powerful filter that allows you to choose from a list of standard values assigned to each record. Leaving this filter blank will return all planset types.
- CONTRACT PLANS
- More recent project plan sets “as-advertised” for bidding
- AMENDMENTS
- Amendments to advertised Contract Plans
- AS-BUILT PLANS
- Plans indicating field changes during construction
- VAULT_ARCHIVE
- Most of the historic plans from the Department’s original plan archive before sets were scanned for electronic viewing
Important Search Tip!
If you search by bridge, route, or PIN number and expected records are not shown in the results set, try filtering the Description field by those values. Many records also have common "street names" or "state aid highway numbers" as part of the description field.
3.
Viewing Plan Sets or Details about the plan set:
Each record in the results table has two buttons in the Action column.
- View
- Loads the PDF in your default PDF viewing application.
- Details
- Look at the plan set record in greater detail than that which is shown in the table.
