Bug in Terminal Configuration

[RaghavGupta]

Hi There

When I am trying to assign terminal connection to 3 three connected lines to a valve which is having a terminal configuration of 1 input and 1 output port. I have found that there is an issue with UNM. 

I am able to configure the same terminal port to all the three connected line. However, it should not have allowed me to do so. Since I have already assigned the same terminal to one of the three connected line

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks

Raghav

[RobertKrisher · Accepted solution]

The utility network doesn't restrict you from connecting multiple lines to the same terminal. While there are some situations where this is not considered valid (like a valve), it's not a constraint we could apply to all termianls in all models.

The most common example is how customers model manholes (sewer/storm) and transformers (electric), where the upstream terminal is connected to two lines on its upstream side. Imposing this new constraint would break existing models and require those customers implementing the utility network to redraw all the manholes and transformers in their database.