Merge Water Pipes

Lucity GIS includes this tool used for merging water pipes in the geodatabase and in the desktop.

Note: This tool can only be used on features that already exist in the Lucity database.

To merge pipes in the map:

1. In ArcMap, start an edit session.
2. Using the ESRI select tool, select only the two adjacent pipes that need to be merged. No other pipes can be selected. Once the two pipes are selected in the map, the Merge Water Pipe tool will be enabled.
3. Click the Merge Water Pipe tool on the Lucity GIS Edit toolbar.
4. You'll receive a prompt similar to the following. If any unsaved edits are detected, your edit session will be saved prior to using this tool. Then, after performing the split, the edit session will be saved again and the desktop will be updated. Click Yes to proceed.

   

5. The following window will appear.

   

   • The Existing From Pipe and To Pipe data is read-only. This is carried over from the desktop and identifies the pipe common ID and the related structure information for the pipe.
   • The Existing Split Feature is also read-only. This is carried over from the desktop and your GIS map and identifies the feature type and common ID.
   • In the Existing Split Feature section, choose one of the three options.
   • If the tool finds a conflicting pipe length (i.e. the Lucity Length is different from the GIS Length for the newly merged pipe), you have two options: You can set the length in Lucity to the length found in the map, or you can proportionally split the pipe in Lucity. If the Lucity length and GIS Length are the same, the New Lucity Pipe Length section will be disabled.
   • The New Pipe Information section lists the new From and To feature information. This is read-only and was carried over from the desktop.
   • In the New Pipe Information section, you will need to enter a New Pipe ID. You can choose to either manually enter a new pipe ID number, use the existing longer pipe ID, use end point IDs, or if this feature class is set up for auto-numbering (in the Custom Geodatabase Synchronizer Setup), the "Use Lucity Auto Number" button will be enabled.
   • In the Request History section, you can choose to not associate the Requests with the new pipe, or disassociate the Requests from the old pipe and associate them to the new pipe (only one asset can be associated to each Request). The Associate New Pipe Record option is disabled. It will be made available for a future release.

     Note: Requests can only be associated to the new pipe, not the old. If you selected "Don't Associate to New Pipe", the old pipe IDs will still be displayed in the Request but will no longer be linked to the Pipe Inventory records. If you selected "Associate New Pipe Record and Disassociate Old Pipe", all Requests related to either pipe will be associated to the new pipe.

   • In the Work Order History section, you can choose to not associate the Work Orders with the new pipe, associate the Work Orders with the new pipe, or disassociate the Work Orders from the old pipe and associate them to the new pipe (multiple assets can be associated to each Work Order).

     Note: If you selected "Don't Associate to New Pipe", the old pipe IDs will still be displayed in the Work Order Assets tab, but will no longer be linked to the Pipe Inventory record. If you selected "Associate New Pipe Record", the Work Order Assets tab will display the old and new pipe IDs, but only the new pipe ID will be linked to the Pipe Inventory record. If you selected "Associate New Pipe Record and Disassociate Old Pipe", the new and old pipe IDs displayed in the Work Order will be changed to the new pipe ID, and all will be linked to the same Pipe Inventory record.

   • In the PM/Work Template section, you can choose to not associate the PMs with the new pipe, or disassociate the PMs from the old pipe and associate them to the new pipe. The latter option is selected by default. The Associate New Pipe Record option is disabled.

     Note: If you selected "Don't Associated to New Pipe", the old pipe IDs will be removed from all PMs. If you selected "Associate New Pipe Record and Disassociate Old Pipe", the old pipe IDs will be removed from all PMs and the new pipe IDs will be added.

   • Click OK when you are finished configuring the merge options.
6. The merge tool will now process the merge and delete the structure based on the options you selected. As previously mentioned in Step 4, your edit session will be saved; you will receive the standard edit prompts. When the process if complete, the following window will appear:

   

   Note: If you assigned the newly merged pipe the ID from one of the old pipes, the other pipe record will be deleted (i.e. Pipe1 and Pipe2 were merged. If you assigned the new pipe an ID of Pipe1, the record for Pipe2 would be deleted, and vice versa). If you assigned the newly merged pipe an ID of anything other than the ID from the two old pipe records, the pipe record with the shorter pipe length will be deleted and the pipe record with the longer pipe length will be updated. When the pipe records are merged, the system will update the to and from feature information, pipe length, and pipe number. Requests, Work Orders, and PMs will then be associated/disassociated as indicated. The system then updates Water associations, carrying over any associations from the old pipe(s) to the new pipe record. The system then carries over any documents and comments associated to the old pipe(s) to the new pipe record.