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Creating an ArcGIS Online Outage Map – Easy as 1, 2, 3

August 12, 2012 | By: SSP Innovations

In this installment of articles related to ArcGIS Online, we will cover how to easily create an outage map for your customers. The beauty of publishing this using ArcGIS Online…

Pole Inspections on Your iPad via ArcGIS Online

July 6, 2012 By: Skye Perry

Last month I wrote about the new ArcGIS Online functionality at 10.1 and why you should care. We were excited to see that there was a lot of interest in…

Communicating With Your ArcFM™ Silverlight Application

June 5, 2012 By:

One of the challenges in working with a Silverlight application is dealing with external events other than the typical asynchronous communication used to retrieve data. We usually think of a…

Fixing Your Data Sources With Python

May 7, 2012 | By: SSP Innovations

During a recent customer upgrade from ESRI 9.3 to 10SP3, we uncovered a last minute "gotcha" regarding over 1,000 map files floating around several share drives. Since the new production…

Designer™ CU Filter Tags & WMS Auto-Tagging

May 2, 2012 By: Skye Perry

Last month Dean Perry covered the new Telvent Designer™ CU Filter tool that was released at version 10.0.3. The new tool allows the user to search for compatible units (CU’s)…

ArcFM™ and Python

April 9, 2012 | By: SSP Innovations

Last month, we presented you with a way to migrate scripts from VBA to Python as a means of reflecting the push away from Visual Basic in ArcGIS. The goal…

Useful Scripts for the Non-Programmer: Changing ArcFM™ Feature Settings En Masse

February 9, 2012 By:

You may have noticed that the last few code examples we've provided have all been very similar in nature. The code I initially used to traverse through the ArcFM™ top…

How to Make the Most of Your Week at TUG 2012

Many of you, like us at SSP, are planning to attend this year's Telvent User Group conference later this month in Fort Collins, CO. But how will you spend your…

Tagging Underground Electrical Lines in ArcFM™/Designer™ – Part 2

February 8, 2012 | By: SSP Innovations

Electric utility companies may be required to provide a solution for tagging their underground electric lines for safety and regulation purposes. In the previous installment of Tagging Underground Electrical Lines…

Is Your Electric Data Ready for Prime Time Usage?

This month I wanted to turn my attention back to another Telvent Feeder Manager topic that has generated a lot of interest over the last few years. More and more…

Tagging Underground Electrical Lines in ArcFM™/Designer™

January 8, 2012 | By: SSP Innovations

Electric utility companies may be required to provide a solution for tagging their underground electric lines for safety and regulation purposes. The solution would be required to meet several requirements,…

Useful Scripts for the Non-Programmer: Where is My Field AU Configured?

January 5, 2012 | By: SSP Innovations

This month’s VBA script is very similar to last month’s, except that it searches specifically for field autoupdaters. It will break down the configuration and let you know every combination…