When new features are created in GIS to represent future facilities, they are introduced to the Utility Network with "Approved" lifecycle status value. This status distinguishes these features from the rest of the network as they are not yet in service or possibly not even constructed. This is an important stage of the construction process and these new features should be available to edit, analyze and map along with all of the other features.
Their inclusion is presenting us a problem building our subnetworks in a way that allows us to include/exclude approved features. Adding approved features as a condition barrier, then connecting approved to active lines will prevent traversability when trying to build the subnetwork. If we don't include approved as a condition barrier they are returned in subnetwork tracing. This makes the result incorrect since the new approved features should not affect the network until the features are active in the field and provided an "In Service" status in our GIS.
Our idea is to allow the network to IGNORE features of a designated condition (lifecycle state = "Approved") and let the remainder of the utility network to function as if they do not yet exist.