.NET utility network edit areas collaboration REST SOI

This sample demonstrates how to communicate the network areas being edited by levereging the utility network's dirty areas table. The SOI intercepts the call to the Validate Network Topology REST operation and processes the dirty areas to create a new polygon in a common non-versioned feature class. This feature class is shared, as a feature layer, in the same ArcGIS Pro project as the utility network layers.

In order to use this SOI, the administrator must first create a new non-versioned feature class with the following properties in the same Enterprise Geodatabase as the Utility Network dataset and under the same owning user.

This sample was demonstrated in the 2021 Esri Developer Summit plenary. Watch the video demo at Extending and Automating Your Enterprise.

The administrator that deploys this SOI must enable it on the map service that also has the Utility Network capability enabled.

Deploying the SOI from the .soe file (..\NetUNEditAreasSOI\bin\Release\NetUNEditAreasSOI_ent.soe) does not require you to open Visual Studio. However, you can load the project (..\NetUNEditAreasSOI\NetUNEditAreasSOI.csproj) in Visual Studio to debug, modify, and recompile the SOI's code. Constants' values may need to change.

The Utility Network owner must make sure that the network topology has been enabled.

Features

• Opening a Utility Network dataset (IFeatureDataset, IDataset)
• Getting network properties and dirty areas table (IBaseNetwork, IDEBaseNetwork)

Sample data

This sample does not require a specific utility network dataset. For example, you can load the Electric Utility Network Foundation Naperville demo data in an Enterprise Geodatabase and publish it as a service on ArcGIS Enterprise. Please follow the instructions provided in the above link to download, configure and publish the data.

• Feature class name: EDITAREAS

• Fields (Types):

  • OBJECTID (Object Id)
  • CREATIONDATE (Date)
  • LASTUPDATE (Date)
  • EDITCOUNT (Long)
  • VERSIONNAME (Text)
  • CREATOR (Text)
  • SHAPE (Shape)

Instructions

Deploy the SOI

1. Log in to ArcGIS Server Manager and click the Site tab.
2. Click Extensions.
3. Click Add Extension.
4. Click Choose File and choose the NetUNEditAreasSOI_ent.soe file (`..\NetUNEditAreasSOI

\bin\Release\NetUNEditAreasSOI_ent.soeor..\NetUNEditAreasSOI\bin\Debug\NetUNEditAreasSOI_ent.soe`). 5. Click Add.

Publish both services

1. Using ArcGIS Pro, follow the steps listed in Publish and consume services with a utility network to publish the utility network layers.
2. Still using ArcGIS Pro, connect to the Enterprise Geodatabase as the utility network owner and publish the edit areas feature layer as a service (non-versioned).

Enable the SOI on a map service

1. Make sure you have published the utility network service whose data source is from an Enterprise Geodatabase using ArcGIS Pro. If not, refer to Electric Utility Network Foundation.
2. Log in to ArcGIS Server Manager and click the Services tab. Select the utility network map service and select Capabilities.
3. Under Interceptors, select NetUNEditAreasSOI and click on the right arrow to add it to the list of enabled interceptors.
4. Click the Save and Restart button to restart the service.

Create an ArcGIS Pro project

1. In ArcGIS Pro, create a new project and connect to the Portal on which both services have been published.
2. Add both the utility network feature service and the edit areas feature service on a new map.
3. Save the project.

Test the SOI in ArcGIS Pro

1. In ArcGIS Pro, open the project created in the previous step.
2. On the Utility Network layer, create a branch version and change to it.
3. Edit one or more features that participate in the network, such as devices. Make sure to edit an attribute that will generate a dirty area (e.g. asset type, asset group, lifecycle status).
4. Save the edits made to the version.
5. Execute the Validate Network Topology tool. This should remove the dirty areas and create a new edit area in the edit areas layer.

6. Delete the branch version. This should remove the edit area from the edit areas layer.