To Find Alternative Supply

Use the Find Alternative Supply workflow to highlight alternative sources. For example, you might have a broken cable or station and need to know alternative routes to supply affected households.

1. Click Home tab Display panel Generate Graphic.
2. Click the Workflow Explorer icon to display the workflows.
3. Under Client Workflows, Analysis workflows, click Find Alternative Supply. Click Execute.
4. Click Select Start Feature. Select the start feature in the map.

   The start feature is the affected device. For example, the start feature might be a house connection if a customer reports loss of power. In another example, the start feature might be a conductor if a customer reports an overhead conductor down.

   Start and stop features must be part of a structural or electric topology. Use the tools in the Workflows pane to remove, to highlight or to zoom to the selected feature.

5. Click Select Stop Feature. Select one or more stop features in the map.
   Note:

   Tracing a network without stop features can take a very long time.

6. Define Stop Conditions as needed.
7. Click OK to run the workflow.
8. Enter REGEN on the command line to clear the selection in the map.

The workflow performs a find connected trace through all devices including open switchable devices, to locate all feeder devices. Source devices are those features identified as FEEDER type in the EL_DEVICE_TYPE meta feature class. See Classify Devices.