Facility Levels

Every type of service tends to use a different mapping philosophy to designate the facility hierarchy that supplies service to the service point. For example, electric service typically uses a substation / feeder / node facility hierarchy to define how electricity is supplied to a service point (the substation is the highest level in the hierarchy, the feeder comes next, and finally the node). Whereas gas service uses a city gate / main / feeder hierarchy.

If your organization maintains this type of information on service points, you will set up your facilities and their interrelationships using 3 windows. On the first you set up the number and type of facility levels used for every service and you define the valid values for each facility level (you define these when you define your Service Types). On the second and third you define the values that may coexist in each level. After these set up tasks are complete, you're ready to enter facility levels on your service points.