We suggest adding a capability to return an aggregated geometry that has the exact length as defined by a Function Barrier condition. By default, when we trace fiber strands (non-spatial Communication edge objects) the trace returns the concatenated geometries of the traced parent features (i.e. the entire line features representing fiber cables) not a partial feature result as per the Function Barrier. Example use case is a Fiber OTDR Trace. The OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) device provides a distance to the location of a problem. The User should be able to select a specific fiber strand to trace, set a Function Barrier condition to the OTDR distance value and set Result Type to “Aggregated Geometry”. The key is that the returned by the Trace aggregated geometry should be “trimmed” to the exact value set by the Function Barrier (i.e. provide partial feature result). This will allow a precise location of the problem to be graphically indicated.
