Latest Contributions by BillBott

Do you really need subnetworks?  Of course, without subnetworks you would lose the ability to run a subnetwork, upstream and downstream traces and many other features and characteristics of subnetworked features. However, these could be replicated by other means if you really wanted to.  Guess it depends on how much work you wanted to do and/or the business value tradeoff. 🙂 ... View more

Caveat Emptor: there is a cost to modeling fields as network attributes, that cost is measured in the synchronization of the network attribute with its database value(s), and vice-versa. Furthermore, there are subtleties about how the attributes are updated (or not) depending what type of version the data is being edited in (child or DEFAULT) and what the related settings are.    Generally, you want to designate fields as network attributes that are sure to be used in a given trace setup or configuration.  ... View more

If you modeled it as a containment association, this would work. Might not make logical sense (for a pipe to "contain" a hydrant"), but hey...it's a solution. ... View more

Probably a dumb idea, but could you move your abandoned features into a representative structure class? Then you could still track them as associated structures (if you wanted to) in traces, but none of the side-effects of disrupting traces, etc. ... View more

Can do it the old-fashioned way of manual inspection. For each rule writeout to console. Console("<Rule name here> in use."); 🙂 ... View more

Yes, the nature of my question is if it is "ON" in named version, does it need to be "ON" in default? For efficiency reasons, of course.  ... View more

Thanks @MikeMiller , that makes sense. Question is, what does Eventing do if it's OFF in default? Direct writes to existing rows make sense - but eventing is responsible for more than which rows are updated or created, documentation states it is used for things like Editor Tracking, Attribute Rules, and Related Feature Annotation among other things.   Hence, turning this off - does this turn "off" this functionality - even in default?   ... View more

Is it possible it can be reconsidered for a 3.1 patch release? Our teams work with the supported Network Management release. and consequently, won't be moving to 3.2 anytime soon. This fix would be very helpful for developers working under these conditions.    ... View more

Only features that have been modified in the version will have their subnetwork information updated when running update subnetwork in a version with eventing disabled. But this is inconsistent with the documentation which says When using this option (Without Eventing) with the default version, all features and objects in the subnetwork are updated.    ... View more

Yes, lots of questions. Thanks for taking a stab at it @RobertKrisher ! From the subnetwork definition documentation: eventing OFF(False)  on DEFAULT the "propagated values and subnetwork definition will be edited in place" (1) Does this mean with it Eventing ON(True) in default they won't be edited in place? Or...is the behavior the same regardless of the setting for DEFAULT? The Pro documentation on the subject is less ambiguous, "all features and objects are updated" when "using this option" (2) Which option? Without Eventing = False? Again, what about Without Eventing = True? What happens then? Does it even matter? I thought I understood this topic but the more I look at it, the less I do...perhaps looking at it too long lol.     ... View more

HI @VaL  I think you have a lot of good suggestions in this thread on getting more detailed information - I was attempting to meet you where you are at and not overwhelm you with UN complexities right from the get-go - there is plenty of time for that. 🙂 | I assume this is part of a UN Yes.  | asset group and asset type are domains? AG is a subtype and you are correct that the "super-subtype" (a term of my own making to facilitate understanding) is represented by a domain dedicated to that end.  | (W)here is the voltage separation by asset group?   Transmission is HV, Primary is MV and Secondary is LV | If you created a FC called electric line, what and where are the constraints imposed by the UN in terms of number of FCs? A UN implementation requires each of the documented feature classes, nothing more, nothing less. If you did create a FC called "Electric Line" not only would it be confusing to the user, it would not be recognized as part of the Utility Network definition.   Hope that helps you along your way. As @RobertKrisher a schema model may be worth a "million words" and indeed that may be true - but I would encourage you to take baby steps and understand the foundational concepts before diving into the myriad of nuance and detail, It is easy to get overwhelmed - at first but, it's also totally learnable and as you will soon see, it has a lot more potential than the GN did/does.   ... View more