Latest Contributions by JohnAlsup

in my opinion, fields in the UN should only ever be viewed in the context of the subtype anyway.  In fact, that rule should really apply to any table with subtypes.  We demonstrated field reuse to help reduce the total number of attributes on any given table/class.  More fields will have an impact on performance.  How much, we have not documented, but everything comes with a price. ... View more

The order was done to facilitate our tools for creating maps.  Outside of that process, it has no impact. ... View more

The order of the alias was done to allow us to better automate the map creation process.  Outside of our process, it makes no difference. ... View more

Hi Jurgen Was this asset package modified in any way after being downloaded? ... View more

Hi mpatilesriaustralia-com-au-esridist , thanks for pointing this out.  There some significant changes to the utility network in 2.6 and we have not yet updated our foundation to include those changes.  However, for now you can just remove the Utility Network Layer from the map and add it back, only it, not all UN layers, and everything should work correctly. ... View more

Objectid is only unique to that database.  If you use any type of disconnected capabilities, your objectid's are not maintained and will be different between databases.  I would not use ObjectID as a unique ID.   ... View more

Thanks Manuele, that information helped a lot.  So I suspect that the two controllers have different subnetwork controller names (which they should) but also two different subnetwork names.  Since they participate in the same Mesh, they must share the same subnetwork name.   ... View more

Hi Manuele.   Is this a model you created from scratch or did you start with the esri Utility Solutions Electric Model? If this is from scratch, did you configure Controller A and Controller B to be in different tiers? ... View more

One great advantage to the method Mike has shown you is that if you are using the UN in a Service, then this operation always executes.  It is not dependent on the client.  So if you added a pole from a web app, the connection point would be automatically created, even though no template was used.   ... View more

Sounds like you have identified a software defect.  I would encourage you to log an issue with esri support.  Sounds like you have a good workflow for them to recreate the issue. ... View more

Hi Robert. You may want to check out this site.  https://maps.nccs.nasa.gov/arcgis/home/item.html?id=2e0471ae7a114277a8a1b16568c6cd20  It appears the data you are referring to is actually published by Home Land Security as part of HIFLD. ... View more

Hi Billy.  The purpose of the Assembly feature is to allow for a single point representation of multiple items.  In cases where you have a three phase fuse and you want to be able to operate the fuses by phase, you must have one device (fuse) per phase.  That gives you three fuses (devices) and two line end (junctions) where you really only want to see a single fuse symbol.  All of the device and junction features are then put in to the fuse assembly feature.  Now can you represent the three phase fuse as a single device, sure, but you will not be able to open a fuse on a single phase.  This may not matter to you, but to others it will.  When I worked a power company, we had many cases of switches and fuses where not all phases were operated the same way at the same time (mixed open and closed).  Also, again, if you need to have the case I have described, then you would want to use the assembly.  In that case, do you want your users to have to know when to work with an assembly vs a device?   ... View more

Hi Billy. One reason is consistency.  Let's take the service point example.  Let's say I have an apartment complex with 100 units and I will have 100 Device/LV Service Points.  I would prefer to place all those in a Device/Service Points in to a single Assembly/LV Service Point.  Now, I would only see these 100 features when i either enable view content or zoom in very close.  But, for the user/editor, they want to be able to turn the service point Visibilty On and Off or change scale suppression.  If you don't put all Device/Service Points in the Assembly/Service Point, then the user now has two places to change these settings.   Of course this is personal preference.  I like consistency.  Others may not. ... View more

Check your connection type for your database connect.  I suspect it's using traditional versioning ... View more