how to distinguish fire hydrant color in Water Utility Network

GraceZhang0203

The subtype group layer thing - where all water devices of various types are in the same feature class is good and bad.  Where it gets the most difficult is when you need to add a field that is specific to one Asset type.  In this case, Hydrant is subtype, so we can give it it's own domain (Hydrant_Color associated with the diameter field) because there are no other valid asset types under Water Device > Hydrant (other than fire hydrant), how do you represent color of fire hydrants in water utility network? thank you

Isaac_King

It will be common to have many attributes in the same feature class that may be relevant to a single asset and not across the class - such is the nature of the beast here. For usability, when setting up a display or app, I will typically hide that attribute from all assets that don't benefit from it. It's time consuming for initial setup, but does certainly improve the end user experience.

 

Assuming you have the Hydrant_Color attribute added to this feature class, using it to drive symbology is pretty straightforward. Add your Subtype Group Layer to the map, right click on the appropriate Asset Group in the table of contents and select symbology from the context menu. From here, you'd setup your symbology just the same as you would any other layer in Pro (SGL or not).