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Is Your Electric Data Ready for Prime Time Usage?

February 8, 2012 By: Skye Perry

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™ – Part 2

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…

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: Corey Blakeborough

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…

Performance Analysis of Your GIS Editors

This is another topic that has garnered a lot of interest from various utilities that currently use either Telvent ArcFM™ or Telvent Designer™. The goal has long been to capture…

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

December 8, 2011 By: Corey Blakeborough

ArcFM™ Autoupdaters are incredibly useful and widely used. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to keep track of them. There are many different potential reasons behind a need to find out…

Debunking the Myth about Applying Data Model or Schema Changes to a Versioned Geodatabase

By: SSP Innovations

A question we are often asked is: what data model or schema changes are allowed on a versioned geodatabase, if any? The answer may surprise a few of you, as…

Useful Scripts for the Non-Programmer: Getting Attributes from Selected Features

October 31, 2011 By: Corey Blakeborough

Obtaining a useful report from ArcMap can be a long and complicated process that needs a script in order to be executed properly. Using the script from this article, simple…

Useful Scripts for the Non-Programmer: Retrieving an Existing IWorkspace

October 5, 2011 By: Corey Blakeborough

When writing code or running scripts for ArcGIS products, you’re likely to need to define an IWorkspace. An IWorkspace can be created from scratch or manually loaded, but the most…

Useful Scripts for the Non-Programmer: Finding Tables by Column Name

September 7, 2011 By: Corey Blakeborough

Because GIS schemas normally use consistent nomenclature between classes, many users can find a good use for finding a specific data criterion within all of them. Most DBMS software solutions…

Useful Scripts for the Non-Programmer: Interpreting Telvent Feeder Manager Bits

August 7, 2011 By: Skye Perry

Just about all of our electric utility clients use Telvent Feeder Manager to manage the connectivity of their electric distribution (and some transmission) circuits. Feeder Manager is a great application…

Integrating WMS – GIS to Support Asset Unitization: Part 2

July 10, 2011 By: SSP Innovations

In the previous installment of Integrating Work Management Systems (WMS) with Geographic Information System (GIS) the initial stages of the asset unitization process were described.