A good utility solution provides adequate data entry and management work flows for construction of new features. ArcFM™ UT offers for example a special work flow for entering a route in the database. The geometry of this protective pipe is derived automatically from the underlying cables. A user only needs to enter the start and end point of the conduit, the rest will be designed automatically.
The goal of this concept called Catalog Services is, of course, to minimize the amount of mouse clicks and to make the workflow as business process-oriented as possible.
The central management of parameters for this kind of editing ensures that all users have access to the same kind of advantages. This will lead to data quality improvement and therefore to cost reduction. This Catalog Service takes care of many parameters that can be set for smart editing:
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