Original User: MikeMillerGIS
1: Because water is a pressurized system, this tool finds all valves that lead to a water source and returns them. Just closing one valve is not going to stop flow to the break location. The tools does not look at flow, just if a valve is feed water by a source. If you do not want to trace to a source, set the source as non operable.
2: The tools are AddIns in ArcMap, you remove them using the Add In Manager, not windows.
3: You do not have to modify the code for the tools to work on your data. You just need to update the config file. The last tool on the infrastructure reporting toolbar will open the config file for you.
4: To set flow on your water datasets, you need to define the source of flow, but even this will give you indeterminate flow(circles). You need to use the Set Flow based on Digitized direction on the Infrastructure editing toolbar. But as I explained early, this will not accurately show flow because of being pressurized.