Designer relies on specific objects to aid in integrating your GIS with your Work Management System (WMS). This page describes those objects and how they are used.
- Work Request (WR): A WR is usually viewed as the top-level of the work management process. As the name implies, it is a request for work to be performed. This WR may either require modifying existing infrastructure or constructing new infrastructure. There might be several alternatives to fulfill the WR. These alternatives are usually represented by alternate designs.
- Design: A design represents a solution to the WR. For example, if a WR requires a pole to be replaced, then the design would detail exactly how (and with what material) the pole would be replaced. Since there might be many options for the pole replacement, several designs may exist. However, only one design may be opened in ArcMap at a time.
- Work Location (WL): For a given design, there is always work to be done. Geographically speaking, the work will have a location. So, each task outlined in a design could have a location where the task is to be performed. Information that would apply to the WL level would be items such as address, work conditions, site conditions (traffic, ground cover, etc.) - any attribute that would affect the work being performed.
- Compatible Unit (CU): A CU can be thought of as the base unit of a design scenario. CUs package the hardware installed (often modeled geographically) with the ancillary factors of its work function (installation, removal, movement, abandonment, etc.) which might not have spatial significance. CUs can also be used to represent the labor necessary to complete the WR.
- GIS Unit (GU): A GU is simply an object that contains a reference to an object class and subtype with references to one or more CU objects. The GU carries the attributes of the feature, while the CU bears the WMS information.
