Latest Contributions by SSMIC3038

Michael, I've been using this tool on the electrical distribution ArcFM side of things since shortly after it was made public and I absolutely love it, I only wish I had more time to keep finding more rules to apply to it. I've put up a few support requests on this over the years and your team has always done a great job supporting and growing this tool, I pray ESRI never drops this tool. One thing I'd love to see, we briefly discussed it once, is the ability to apply a work order number to a large number of features. So, in AA I set a single value of "WO# = 12345", then any feature I create or modify and has the WO# field receives the value in AA. As I change WO's I just change the WO number in that one field in AA instead of applying it for each feature I add/edit or changing in all my relevant feature templates. So a single WO # can cascade to all the features I edit under that WO umbrella. Hope that explanation made sense. ... View more

Perhaps you can give more detail about what your hoping to accomplish. ... View more

We do the same thing at chambers, we put pseudo lines in just to maintain network connectivity, we also put in a comment for each pipe. ... View more

This is a tricky one to deal with, in similar circumstances we've put an arbitrary short piece of pipe between the 2, we also have a point feature named "FYI" and we put one of those there and detail what the issue is, we also put details in the pipe comments explaining why the segment is there. Not the best solution but putting points on top of points results in one covering the other and then people doing analysis inevitably don't see one of them. Another option would be adding a relevant field to one of the assets and handle it textually as an attribute. problem there is that a lot of GIS users are 'visual' only users and don't look at attributes, they go by what they see on screen, which leads back to the solution above, people need to so set it visually. May not be the best solution, but that's how we deal with it, never heard anything negative on it. ... View more

That's likely the problem, were on 2008, upgrade to 2012 is in process. Thanks. ... View more

Just  upgraded to 1.1 and I'm getting the same error message, can't figure it out. Any help is appreciated. ... View more

You'll have to develop something custom. We developed a pretty robust application that does 3 phase tracing on a single line representation from substation thru to customer meter, sums the addresses and accounts and does misc reporting per gov't specs, it's used for planned or unplanned outages. The potential is amazing if you have a solid data model (ArcFM), in a solid SDE database and some talented programmers, unfortunately that's a tall hill. ... View more

Personally I'd go with one feature, I always mull this over when new features are made. My opinion is that having the analysis on a single feature is better than requiring analysis across 3 features, which the desktop user may not be aware of. ... View more

We represent ours schematically (duct simply connects to manhole) and the plans are hyperlinked, trying to maintain the duct configurations to reality is a difficult task, especially when there are various generations of mapping protocols and quality of accuracy. Duct configurations change and don't always make it to the GIS editor, made worse by other utilties having ducts in the configuration as well. On certain things we purposely generalize the GIS configuration and rely on scanned and hyperlinked documents to show a greater level of detail. ... View more

Persoanlly I've been administering a heavily modified ArcFM electrical distribution GIS data model for 13 years, you could certainly make your own model with out of box tools but boy would you need alot of time and knowledge in a few disiplines, it would be a long and difficult undertaking. The ArcFM model that we use is worth the money, it's very comprehensive. ... View more

Thanks Mike. Some of the functionality youve been developing looks great, were in the process of upgrading a 10 year old (ArcGIS 8.0 beta) enterprise GIS and we have some big plans for these new tools!! ... View more