Latest Contributions by RobertKrisher

It's definitely possible, check out this video from FME for some tricks and tips to get started ( MicroStation DGN: How to Integrate CAD and GIS  ).  FME Workbench and the Data Interop are comparable for what you're doing.  You may need to expose additional attribute or use some different parameters on your reader in order to get at all of the underlying attributes. ... View more

As a consultant who has been involved with the Utility Network model since it's early alpha and beta releases I'll leave my 2 cents.  The hardest part of the implementation of water/storm/sewer is going to be working through all the data preparation / cleanup, and for that I'd highly recommend using Esri or a Consultant to help manage that part. If you have a strong data conversion team in house they should be able to handle the conversion, with some guidance from Esri or a Consultant.  If you don't have a strong data conversion team in house you will likely need to bring in an outside consultant.  If you do end up going the consultant route I recommend you look for consultants who have been Certified as capable of implementing the Utility Network by Esri.  If you want to do it all in house then a good place to start would be to take all of the classes and certifications recommended by Esri to get certified. ... View more

Thamer,   I don't work for Esri but it sounds like most of your concerns about maintaining multiple models are handled with the next release of UPDM, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Enterprise that should be coming out in the next week or so but I recommend you check out this thread from Esri ( https://community.esri.com/community/electric-and-gas/blog/2019/12/17/strengthening-pipeline-data-management-in-arcgis  ) written by Tom DeWitte‌ that talks about this exact topic. Thanks, Robert ... View more

My first thought was that you could create an attribute rule that would fire on creation of a feature to automatically inherit the attribute (and relate) the new feature to the traffic cabinet.  If you needed something more robust you could always create one or more batch calculate (or validation) rules that could populate or ensure these values are consistent. ... View more

Gaps in the numbers are something that will occur naturally as features are deleted or edits are undone, but the sequence itself will ensure that the values that it generates are unique.  If you're worried about your users manipulating the data and creating duplicate numbers, you could create an attribute constraint or validation rule that ensures that the numbers are unique. ... View more

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Let's just focus on the geodatabase testing first, that way you can work out all the issues locally before pushing it all to enterprise. Can you include the new expressions you're now using (with your field / sequence names) along with additional information about how the rule is configured?  It is just assigned to fire on insert? update? ... View more

Let's take a look at the expression.  I'm assuming this is some kind of immediate or batch calculation rule, which means that every time this expression fires the value returned from it will replace the value in your ID field. It looks like you're trying to add in a test to see if the value is already populated, but because the statement isn't included in an if statement that means that it isn't controlling logic at all.  Here is an example of an expression that will only calculate a new sequence value if the field is empty.  In this case I assigned it as an immediate calculation rule on the "my_id" field. if(isempty($feature.my_id)) //If the field is empty return concatenate("SP-",nextsequencevalue("Test")); //calculate a new id else //otherwise return $feature.my_id //return the original value Here's a screenshot of a few features I created using this rule. ... View more

If you already have access to Esri software and Servers then using a Stream Service in the GeoEvent server would be my recommendation for providing the capability you described without relying on a static data dump (storing a static copy of the data is optional).  The only other mainstream Esri product for this that I've worked with is using Osoft's PI Historian + OSIsoft's Esri PI Integrator to capture and stream the data to Esri, but it has a much higher software/hardware footprint and price point (but provides a lot of additional benefits). ... View more

The answer is largely dependent on what software was used to gather the initial inspection information to begin with, but we typically try and have our supervisors and engineers use web applications built using the Esri Web App Builder to access the resulting data.  We'll typically flag the inspection with some sort of status indicating it needs to be reviewed (similar to the above post), assign it to a named resource, then point them to a map that will show them just the items they need to review (hosted layer views). ... View more

Diptesh,   The UPDM 2019 model (posted in a separate thread) adds the ability to model your cp zones as subnetworks in the model.  Each test lead of a test point can be set up to be a subnetwork controller for a cp zone then you simply connect the leads up to their corresponding pipes and make sure you're properly modelling the conductivity / insulation lines and equipment in your data. Thanks, Robert ... View more

This is a great use case you have and  you're in good hands if you've got John Alsup answering your comments 😃 If you're going to be at the Esri UC this would be a good topic to bring up with some of the Esri staff or Vendors there.  You may find that the vendors you are using to store your SCADA data you may have COTS software available to you through that vendor that can achieve what you're looking for (OSIsoft's PI Integrator for Esri ArcGIS, https://www.osisoft.com/solutions/advanced-integrations/esri-arcgis/ ).  You may also be inspired to develop an in-house solutions for what John is describing, which could rely on anything from python scripts (run from a geoprocessing server), using a GeoEvent server to update the GIS, or even staging your SCADA data into the GIS periodically and leveraging ArcGIS Insights to do the analysis and presentation of the data.  Bring some good use cases and get some hard numbers from your SCADA systems like: what types of points, how many points are you showing, which values from SCADA do you want to bring over, and how often are you going to need to poll your SCADA system for updates. ... View more

I can confirm that Collector works fine with the Utility Network as long as you don't need to take it offline (not currently supported). Squished Fields - this first problem sounds like your map isn't properly set up.  The default aliases for fields in the utility network list out all the subtype level aliases for each field.  You will want to adjust these in your map by either reset them to be the field names if you have all your layers in one table or splitting out your layer into multiple layers and applying the appropriate alias / visibility settings on each individual layer. Domain Values not appearing - This is something that can happen when you publish web maps using ArcGIS Pro.  Refer to the tips in this thread ( Domain decode inconsistency  ) for how to work around it. ... View more