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ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:05:25 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

It would be great if the “display flow arrows” and “set flow direction” get available

ArcGIS Pro 2.5: How to display flow arrows and set flow direction in the utility network,

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

KoryKramer — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:23:05 GMT

Jamal - coming soon in ArcGIS Pro 2.6 will be trace networks, which provide a way to directly convert a geometric network into a network that can be used in ArcGIS Pro. Primary use cases are for rail and water; it appears from your screenshots that you're working with water.

Built in to the ribbon will be Display Flow Direction:

Which will generate the flow arrows you're looking for.

There is also a Set Flow Direction geoprocessing tool that can be added to the ribbon, so I think in Pro 2.6 you will have what you're looking for.

Hope this helps!

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:36:38 GMT

Many thanks Kory. That would be great.

Do you have a simple network sample that you can share with us at which the flow is configured? I mean one can trace the upstream and downstream?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

KoryKramer — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:05:49 GMT

I think you should be able to use the geometric network from Water Distribution Network | ArcGIS Solutions for Water Again, this is Pro 2.6, so you would need to be working with the beta to test the functionality.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

MajdoleenO_A__Awadallah — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:23:48 GMT

Dear Kory,

I tried the Arcgis pro 2.6.0 beta, and found out the this option is not available, please have a look below:

But if I go to option, I can find the ribbon, but how to display it on the main screen, why it is not appearing by default despite it is checked!!

Best

Majdoleen

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

lubnajarara_ah — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 07:27:42 GMT

Dear Kory,

Thank you for your input, I notice that to make the “Display Flow Direction” active, I need to build a trace network despite the fact I already have a utility network, which not make sence to me!

To build a trace network, I need to build a dataset that contains the edge and junction feature classes which are already created in the utility network, so I copy them and that make a duplication!

Is this the best practice to do that

Best,

Lubna

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

KoryKramer — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:42:39 GMT

Correct. I did say that this will be available for Trace Networks in ArcGIS Pro 2.6. So if working with a Trace Network, you'll have what you need. But the idea requests this for Utility Network, which is why the idea is marked as Reviewed and not (yet?) in product plan.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:48:51 GMT

Hi Kory,

Right. The idea for utility network.

Is this planned for enhancement in the upcoming release? 2.7?

Kory Kramer‌

Paul LeBlanc‌

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:17:36 GMT

is this planned in 2.8? this is a very baisc property

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

DavidCrawford — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:14:38 GMT

I apologize, but this is not planned as part of 2.8. And I'm not sure when exactly we will incorporate displaying flow direction in the Utility Network. It's not as basic a property as you might assume.

The Geometric Network maintained flow direction as an attribute (internally) for every edge in the network. The Utility Network derives flow direction on the fly, based on the locations of sources and sinks.

We have plans in the future to embed this information back into the network index, at which point, we could enable the display of flow direction. However, there are no immediate plans to support this. Keep in mind - returning flow direction arrows for all the data in your network, from a service, is not the smallest operation in the world. And we wouldn't want to implement such a feature which immediately causes significant performance issues. [GN was all direct-connect - so that was a bit easier to handle]

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 17:33:03 GMT

Thank you David for the input.

This functionality would provide much more sense as it displays the flow direction. It has been there in ArcMap for years and years and I was happy with it!

If it’s there then it’s optional for those who don’t like to use it due to performance issues

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

DavidCrawford — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:22:41 GMT

I appreciate the idea, and it is on our plans as a future enhancement.

I was just trying to set appropriate expectations with my response. I'm not sure when exactly it will become part of the Utility Network in Pro.

It is not as simple as just displaying it - its not as if we have this information stored, and are just keeping it to ourselves. It requires building the system to actually calculate and store this flow direction information (the UN derives this information on the fly during trace and analytic operations where directionality is required).

Again, on our future plans, but not specifically timed out, at this point.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction, - Status changed to: Under Consideration

MelissaJarman — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:34:26 GMT

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamesWright9 — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:04:01 GMT

@JamalNUMANMaybe not what your looking for, but Schneider Electric's Editor 11 series provides flow arrows over the Utility Network.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 08:45:22 GMT

Is Schneider ArcFM is more powerful in terms of functionalities at the level of desktop and web than what we have in Pro?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

LindseyStone — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:49:00 GMT

Please do this and make this available via the utility network and be able to be seen on web applications. My utilities wants this for sewer and I have just had to make a secondary copy of my lines and symbology this out. It is kind of annoying that this is just not a simple turn on and off option.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:38:20 GMT

It would great if this tool is added to Pro in the near future

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

utilitier — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:58:48 GMT

Hi @JamalNUMAN

I have a suggestion for you, if it does it works.
The electric line, copy and paste it and rename as the flow direction.

And change the single syblogy line as ArrowLine2.

than remove solid stroke.

You are able to see the direction of the line (if you are using the UN, your drawing direction must correct in terms of the flow direction ). When you need to see the direction, turn on/of the layer.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:30:25 GMT

Thank you for the input.

In ArcMap, we could change the source\sink and thus the arrows are automatically switched to the new direction

But why it’s challenging to have this functionality available in UN?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.5: Utility network appears not to have tools to display flow arrows and set flow direction,

JamalNUMAN — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:27:17 GMT

Patiently waiting to get this functionality implemented!