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Include entire structure network in network trace

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05-08-2024 07:59 AM
Status: Open
JürgenBiendara
Regular Contributor

In Electric Transmission Overhead, we would like to model the insulator chains as a structure line. The model is shown as an approximation in the attached graphic.

In principle, this modeling works, but it has the catch that the connected trace always stops at the object marked with the red cross. I have the following information from Esri:

"In the Utility Network, Structural Attachments are a special kind of connection and not viewed the same as a Junction to Junction connectivity or similar. Therefore, the connected trace will not traverse Structural Attachments. If you have the trace option "Include Structures" checked, then it will return the Attached Structures, but not things in the structure network that are connected to the first attached structure feature."

This means that it is not possible in our model with a single trace to determine which insulator chains and which poles an overhead conductor is attached to. Therefore, it would be helpful to have an option to also trace the entire connected structure network.

2 Comments
AnthonyRyanEQL

I wouldn't have thought this is required as the tier definition has the configuration of what participates in a trace.

KellySchon

I would also like to use this functionality for tracking guy poles in our electric UN. We currently have no way of exporting them due to their lack of participation in any subnetwork, so tried creating structural attachments between the guy and the main pole it supports. However, because you can't configure a trace to traverse the second level structural attachment, only the first pole appears in the Export Subnetwork JSON.

We are debating replicating the attachments between main and guy pole for all the electric junctions in order to be able to export them, but don't love having to go down this direction of needlessly expanding the associations table just to export features that are disconnected from the electrical but not the structural network.