Latest Contributions by RobertKrisher

If you're seeing slowness in a mobile geodatabase, you can use the Logs tab in ArcGIS Pro Diagnostic Monitor  to see what queries are happening and how long they're taking. Simply modifying the vertices of a line shouldn't take that long but there may be additional things like attribute rules that could be contributing to the additional time. Or maybe its an extremely long line with many features connected to it? If the slowness was on validate (and not edit) than there are other things you could consider, but it sounds like that's not the case. ... View more

One of the other tricks I like to do is to create the rule as a popup expression and use that to test out the expression against different features. There isn't a 1:1 equivalency between the popup profile and the attribute rule profile, but when you can take this approach it is a very fast, and easy, way to prototype/develop. ... View more

@JohnGoat  The amount of time it takes to update a subnetwork depends on many things, including the number of features in the subnetwork and the subnetwork definition. 3 seconds per subnetwork isn't unreasonable, but to your point when applied to 60k subnetworks it becomes a lot. The reason why we force you to update your subnetworks after disabling the network topology is because changes made when the topology are disabled could affect the validity of your subnetworks. The obvious place where this causes an issue is if you are alter a subnetwork definition, but almost any change to the utility network configuration can affect the validity or contents of a subnetwork. This is why we mark them as dirty, because it forces you to update them (re-validating them) to ensure that everything is still valid. Please log an issue and enhancement request for this. ... View more

@YulissaCamacho does this customer's model use propagation? if so, you can set the phasing of the  transformer to de-energized to force the transformer to not participate in the subnetwork. ... View more

I've never heard of someone opening a transformer before ... but if you modeled the fuse (overhead) or elbows (padmounted) of the transformer as open that should work. However, this means that the transformer will be de-energized. If the transformer is actually energized on that subnetwork, but you don't want the subnetwork name to be populated, then I'll need to know more about why and what you're attempting to accomplish. ... View more

@MatteoMagnani_WT These tools are supported going forward, but only on releases that are part of the network management release program. ArcGIS Pro 3.6 is not a long-term support release, but ArcGIS Pro 3.7 will be. It is assumed that customers who choose to go-live on off-releases plan to upgrade to releases that are part of the network management release plan to access the latest bug fixes and performance improvements that are released via patches. ... View more

To be clear, creating views instead of materialized views is against the best practice and recommendation of this article. The performance problems encountered with using a dynamic view are the reason why we suggest using a materialized view. ... View more

Can you quantify "large network"? How many network features, or how many customers do you serve (it's approximate, since you don't have something like a meter layer you can query). If you're experiencing slowness with a file/mobile geodatabase, make sure you are using it on a local disk instead of on a network share. Latency has a huge effect on performance when you're working in a client/server mode. In the same line of thinking, putting the database on an SSD instead of a HDD makes a big difference as well. Other factors to consider are whether your machine has enough memory to build the topology in memory, or whether it has to use disk. If it is having to write to disk during enable, you will want to make sure you have enough free disk space and that it's a SSD. ... View more

Look at the terminal connections for things like your pumps, boundary valves, and you may find that the pipes connected to that valve are all connected to the same terminals. ... View more

Users should not be directly connecting to the geodatabase to access utility network data, they should be using services. ... View more

Great discussion here, and I agree with @gis_KIWI4 . Have some initial discussions, but table making any changes until you've had a chance to use the system for 6 months. Once you've had a chance to flush out all the items you want to add/improve in your model, you can then come up with a plan for a) how to model/configure it and b) how to change the business processes to ensure that the GIS is getting enough information to create and maintain this information. If you want to get to the level of detail that is required here you will need to start looking at very detailed vault/conduit drawings to get the information on the GIS. Does your organization have this information? Is it all accurate and actively maintained every time something changes? How will reviewing this information impact your workload, will you need to hire another mapper to keep up with demand? You will also need to ensure that every time a cable is pulled or replaced (or new construction happens) that the vault/conduit drawings AND the GIS get updated. ... View more

Technically there is no result option that allows you to return only the starting points. But one of those options allows you to differentiate between only returning barrier features or returning all the results of a particular trace. ... View more