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Add Reduce Junction By Category Rule (Network Diagram Tools)

Summary

Adds a diagram rule to automatically reduce junctions during the building of diagrams based on an existing template. This reduction depends on whether the junctions are tagged with specific network categories.

Learn more about the reduction of junctions in diagrams

Caution:

This tool is a configuration and administration tool.

Note:

This tool impacts the consistency of any existing diagrams based on the input diagram template. All of the existing diagrams become inconsistent and open with a consistency warning icon until they are updated.

Usage

  • This tool is not supported when working with a utility network service. You must use either a utility network in a file or mobile geodatabase, or a database connection to a utility network in an enterprise geodatabase. When working with an enterprise geodatabase, the following are requirements:

    • The Input Network parameter value must be from a database connection established as the database utility network owner.

    • The connected ArcGIS Enterprise portal account must be the portal utility network owner.

    • This tool must be connected to the default version, which is expected to be public and not protected.

  • The Reduce Junction rule is used to simplify the diagram graph while preserving the topology by reducing junctions according to the number of their adjacent junctions—that is, the number of junctions to which they are connected and, optionally, to particular attributes on their adjacent edges. This tool allows you to configure the Reduce Junction rule to run by network categories. This means that you can configure the reduction of junctions in the generated diagrams depending on whether they are tagged with specific network categories.

    Learn more about reductions in diagrams

  • Starting at ArcGIS Pro 3.4, when working in Utility Network version 7 with a partitioned tier definition and configuring this tool to reduce junctions with three connections or more, you can have the rule consider flow direction based on the digitized direction to identify the single upstream or single downstream junction to which the junction will be reduced. In earlier versions, the upstream and downstream trace operations could only consider flow direction based on the subnetwork controller locations.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Input Network

The utility network containing the diagram template that will be modified.

Utility Network

Input Diagram Template

The name of the diagram template that will be modified.

String

Active

Specifies whether the rule will be enabled when generating and updating diagrams based on the specified template.

  • CheckedThe added rule will become enabled during the generation and update of any diagrams based on the input template. This is the default.

  • UncheckedThe added rule will not become enabled during the generation or update of any diagrams based on the input template.

Boolean

Rule Process

Specifies how the junctions that are tagged with the specified network categories will be reduced.

  • Exclude categoriesJunctions that are tagged with the specified network categories will not be reduced, while other junctions will be reduced. This is the default.

  • Include categoriesJunctions that are tagged with the specified network categories will be reduced.

String

Categories

The network categories that will be excluded or included depending on the Rule Process parameter value.

If the Rule Process parameter is set to Include categories, one or more network categories must be specified. All junctions that are tagged with the specified categories will be reduced in the generated diagrams.

If the Rule Process parameter is set to Exclude categories, the junctions that are tagged with the specified categories will not be reduced in the generated diagrams, while junctions that are not tagged with the specified categories will be reduced.

String

Reduce Junctions With

(Optional)

Specifies the number of junction connections that will be considered for reduction.

  • Maximum two connected junctionsJunctions with two or fewer connections will be considered. In this case, a specific process will be run according to the number of candidate junction connections that will be reduced. This is the default.

  • Minimum three connected junctionsJunctions with three or more connections will be considered. In a network with a hierarchical tier definition, such a junction will be reduced to any other junction it is connected to, except when it is connected to a single junction. In a network with a partitioned tier definition, upstream and downstream traces will be run to determine the single upstream or downstream junction to which it will be reduced.

String

Reduce if unconnected

(Optional)

Specifies whether each unconnected network diagram junction candidate will be reduced. This parameter is only enabled when the Reduce Junctions With parameter is set to Maximum two connected junctions.

  • CheckedUnconnected network diagram junction candidates will be reduced. Each junction will be removed.

  • UncheckedUnconnected network diagram junction candidates will not be reduced; they will be kept. This is the default.

Boolean

Reduce if connected to a single junction

(Optional)

Specifies whether each network diagram junction reduction candidate that is connected to a single junction will be reduced. This parameter is only enabled when the Reduce Junctions With parameter is set to Maximum two connected junctions.

  • CheckedNetwork diagram junction reduction candidates that are connected to a single junction will be reduced. Each junction and its incident edge will be reduced onto its single connected junction.

  • UncheckedNetwork diagram junction reduction candidates that are connected to a single junction will not be reduced; they will be kept. This is the default.

Boolean

Reduce if connected to 2 different junctions

(Optional)

Specifies whether each network diagram junction reduction candidate that is connected to two other junctions will be reduced. This parameter is only enabled when the Reduce Junctions With parameter is set to Maximum two connected junctions.

  • CheckedNetwork diagram junction reduction candidates that connect to two other junctions will be reduced. Each junction and its incident edges will be reduced onto a super span edge (the reduction edge). This is the default.

  • UncheckedNetwork diagram junction reduction candidates that connect to two other junctions will not be reduced; they will be kept.

Boolean

Edge Attribute Names

(Optional)

The alias of the edge attributes adjacent to the junction reduction candidate.

The junction will be reduced only when all of its adjacent edges have the same values for each specified attribute alias.

String

Description

(Optional)

The description of the rule.

String

Use Digitized Direction

Specifies whether the digitized direction will be used when reducing junctions with three or more connections.

This parameter is only enabled when the Reduce Junctions With parameter is set to Minimum three connected junctions.

  • CheckedThe reduction process will consider flow direction based on the digitized direction to identify the single upstream or single downstream junction to which the junction will be reduced.

  • UncheckedThe reduction process will consider flow direction based on the location of subnetwork controllers to identify the single upstream or single downstream junction to which the junction will be reduced. This is the default.

Boolean

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Output Network

The updated utility network.

Utility Network

Output Diagram Template

The name of the diagram template.

String

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: No
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes