SCADA Symbology

For systems with SCADA Extensions, the Viewer provides many visual cues about SCADA devices and their statuses. For details on SCADA symbology, see “Hide Measurement in Viewer: Hides a measurement in the Viewer.Understanding SCADA Information in the Viewer ”.

Hiding and Displaying Viewer Objects

The Viewer's Hide/Display tool allows you to display only those map elements (for example, layers, objects, crew types) that are of interest to you. To change visibility of components displayed in the Viewer, complete these steps:

1. Click the Hide/Display (

) toolbar button. (Alternatively, you may select Hide/Display... from the Actions menu.)

2. Select the elements that you want displayed; deselect those elements that you do not want displayed.

Note: Hide/Display is a configurable feature of NMS so your dialog box may have different options.

3. Hide/Display options may include:

• Layer Groups: defined groups of single layers listed in the Layers pane.

• Above Ground

• Underground

• Transformers

• SCADA Switches

• All Electrical

• Basic Landbase - refers to the display of landbase data from the Map Definition Utility.

• Layers

• Overhead Conductors

• Underground Cables

• Manholes

• Underground Fuses

• SCADA Disconnects

• SCADA Circuit Breakers

• Other Electrical

• Supply Nodes

• Roads

• Waterways

• Other Landbase

• Measurements - refers to SCADA measurements. For more information, see “Understanding SCADA Measurements”.

• Violations - refers to devices or feeders in a violation or warning state. For more information, see “Using the Feeder Load Summary”.

• Highlighting

• Predicted De-energized - adds a glow around an object that is predicted to be de-energized.

• Confirmed De-energized - adds a glow around an object that is confirmed to be de-energized.

• Distributed Generation - adds a glow around conductors fed (or partially fed) by distributed generation.

• Powerflow Violations - adds a glow around an object that has a power flow violation.

• Powerflow Warnings - adds a glow around an object that has a power flow warning.

• Assessed - adds a glow around conductors that have been marked as assessed.

Note: If more than one highlighting color matches, the following order of importance is used:

1. Violations

2. Warnings

3. Predicted out

4. All other highlighting (following the configured conductor coloring priority).

To see the color legend for highlighting glows, select Highlight Legend... from Viewer's Help menu.

• Crew Types

• Service & Trouble

• Tree

• Line

• Eval

• Incidents - allows you to choose whether to display all calls or just AMI notifications and whether to display symbols for all damaged assets or only the main asset for each damage report.

• Show All Calls

• Show All AMI

• Show FLA by Default

• Show All Damage

• Declutter (On/Off) - see “Decluttering the Viewer” for details.

• Hide Conditions with Devices (On/Off) - see “Hiding Conditions with Devices” for details.

• Spatial Landbase Menu - allows you to chose which Spatial Landbase to use. The options available will depend on your installation.

• None

• Web Map Server 1 Road

• Web Map Server 1 Aerial

• Web Map Server 2 Road

• Web Map Server 2 Aerial

• Oracle: refers to the display of Spatial Landbase data from an Oracle Locator or Oracle Spatial base map defined using Oracle MapBuilder. MapBuilder is a standalone graphical tool for creating and editing styles, themes, and base maps.

• Oracle with Outage Summary

• The Network Level menu allows you to choose to display:

• All Primary (the default)

• Backbone Only

• Primary and Secondary

• Backbone and Laterals

• The Phases menu allows you to choose to display:

• All Phases (the default)

• Multi-Phase

• 3-Phase Only

• The Pending Devices menu allows you to choose to display construction pending, decommissioning conditions, and inactive devices. Options are:

• Hide Pending Devices (the default)

• Show Pending Devices

4. Click the Close button to close the Hide/Display dialog box.