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Comment on Feeder Manager 2.0 Video Showcase Series: Symbolization by Shawn Sahu

Shawn Sahu — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:18:57 +0000

I tried to submit a comment previously, however it has not shown up. I imagine your spam filter may be broken?

Comment on Comparing Versions and Sessions by Todd Moran

Todd Moran — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:11:01 +0000

Aaron- we’ll look into locating and re-posting this video. Stay tuned.
Thanks,
Todd

Comment on Comparing Versions and Sessions by Aaron S

Aaron S — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:59:34 +0000

Hey there. The link in the Mastering the Process Framework page to view the webex appears to be broken.

I know it’s probably getting “old” now. Any chance this can be resurrected?? Thanks.

Comment on Feeder Manager 2.0 Video Showcase Series: Symbolization by Matthew Crooks, Telvent Product Owner

Matthew Crooks, Telvent Product Owner — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:36:46 +0000

Hi Jens – thanks for your feedback! Ensuring unique, contrasting colors is definitely something we have in our backlog of items to address with Feeder Manager 2.0. We hope to have a solution that we can eventually demo for you and that you can try out on your problematic datasets to determine if it adequately solves the problem. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress!

Comment on Feeder Manager 2.0 Video Showcase Series: Symbolization by Jens Dalsgaard

Jens Dalsgaard — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:00:14 +0000

Hi guys

As stated earlier the development on Feeder Manager is cool, an important step forward for a very useful part of ArcFM.
You hardly ever show Feeder Manager functionality without coloring by feeder – except you do it in this video, where coloring is by energized phase and looped attributes.
Coloring by feeder is very important. In a typical European distribution network tie points are very common and highly used in everyday operation. Many tie points and substations with many feeders means that adjacent feeders (meeting at substation or at tie points) WILL inevitably have too alike colors.
Now that you are generating ‘energized phase’ and ‘looped’ as individual readable attributes, are you considering generating and storing a color attribute ensuring unique, contrasting colors? Because that would really prove useful.

Thanx

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Comment on Feeder Manager 2.0 Video Showcase Series: Symbolization by Matthew Crooks, Telvent Product Owner

Matthew Crooks, Telvent Product Owner — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:20:22 +0000

Hi Marcelo – thanks for your question! As you mentioned, symbolization with FM2.0 is vastly improved!

The short answer is, yes! You will still be able to find dropped phases with FM2.0. In FM1.0 you had to use a complex method with many bitwise operations (the link you provided) as a Feeder Manager Label Expression in order to determine dropped phases. With FM2.0 you will still need to utilize an expression, but it can be simplified dramatically! Now you can simply concatenate 4 fields because you are supplied that information directly via the plug-in data source.

Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Matthew Crooks, Telvent Product Owner

Comment on Feeder Manager 2.0 Video Showcase Series: Symbolization by Marcelo Marques

Marcelo Marques — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:16:26 +0000

The new symbology will be extremely useful during circuit QA/QC.

Good job!

Are you leveraging the Feeder Manager Label Expression?

How can I find phase drops in FM2.0?

I use the FM Label Expression in FM1.0 to accomplish this.

http://resources.arcfmsolution.com/FreeTools/FeederManagerPhaseMismatchLabeltextExpressionv5.txt

Thanks and great job on FM2.0.

Marcelo Marques, Esri Technical Manager

Comment on Feeder Manager 2.0 Video Showcase Series: Performance Improvements by Marcelo Marques

Marcelo Marques — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:50:51 +0000

Great demo guys! real good improvements in Feeder Manager 2.0.
I have a question on symbology. I work with circuit data QA/QC and I leverage the Feeder Manager feederinfo and phasedesignation to find and fix phase drops, I use the Feeder Manager Label Expression, available at
http://resources.arcfmsolution.com/FreeTools/FeederManagerPhaseMismatchLabeltextExpressionv5.txt

Are you considering to make this easier for the end user?

Maybe, create a tool to automatic add the Label Expression symbology to the conductor layers in the ArcMap TOC.

I have worked with Feeder Manager data and Esri Data Reviewer to perform circuit data validations for the last 5 years.

“Using ArcGIS® Data Reviewer to Inspect ArcFM™ Feeder Manager Circuits”
http://downloads.esri.com/support/whitepapers/other_/ArcGIS_Data_Reviewer_ArcFM_FMC-final.PDF
http://www.esri.com/industries/electric/community/quality-control-vid.html

Thanks,
Marcelo Marques, Esri Technical Manager

Comment on The 5 ArcFM Locator Tools: XY Coordinates Search by Francisco Capulong

Francisco Capulong — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:52:26 +0000

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