ERT Override Dialog Box
To open the ERT Override dialog box, do one of the following:
• Select the ERT Override... option from the System menu, or
• Click the ERT Override button on the toolbar.
The ERT Override window opens with the ERT Override tab displayed. The ERT Delay functionality is accessed via the ERT Delay tab. Both window tabs offer consistent actions via the buttons at the bottom of the window.
ERT Override Tab Fields
• The Zone column contains the control zone that is having its Storm Management calculated estimates made inaccessible or overridden. With a row selected, click in the Zone field to activate the Control Zone Selection button (
), which opens the Control Zone Selection dialog box. Select the desired Control Zone and click OK.
), which opens the Control Zone Selection dialog box. Select the desired Control Zone and click OK.• The Tier column contains the optional tier criteria for using a given ERT Override value. See the Add Tier button description below to learn how to add tiers. Note that if tiers are used, the ERT Override field on the Summary Information pane will not display a value (since there will likely be more than one), but rather just display "Published" or "Non-Published."
• The ERT Override column contains the estimated restoration date and time for all events within the control zone to be displayed outside of Storm Management. Once you click in the ERT Override column, a date selector. The date/time you enter must be in the future. This field may be left blank.
• The Publish Projections column contains a check box that indicates whether or not the ERT Override value is published to other modules for the affected events.
• The Override All Existing ERTs check box indicates whether the ERT Override, as applied to the selected row (zone), will override all ERTs (of that zone) irrespective of the ERT source.
• The User column displays the id of the user who provided the ERT override/delay value.
ERT Delay Tab
The ERT Delay tab exchanges the ERT Override column for a Delay column; all other columns function exactly the same as described in the ERT Override tab overview including the ability to add tiers to the delay.
• The ERT Delay column contains the delay to be added to the start time of outages to calculate the ERT, rather than using the normally calculated ERT. Once you click in the ERT Delay column, a mask for hours and minutes is displayed (that is, ##:##). Enter a delay value in hours and minutes to set the delay value. The ERT Delay will be activated once the OK button is clicked.
Example - Using the Mask
If you want to set the ERTs to be four hours and 30 minutes from the outage start times, enter 0430; the mask will show 04:30.
ERT Override Buttons
• The Add button adds a new row to the table in the ERT Override dialog box. That row may then be edited to contain the desired control zone, ERT Tier (using the Add Tier button), ERT Override date/time, and publish values. If a row marked for removal is selected, pressing the Add button will undo the removal mark. New, unsaved rows display in the table as green. Edited, unsaved rows display in the table as cyan.
• The Add Tier button adds a tier to a selected row. The Tier column will be populated with a context menu that defaults to the first tier criteria. Clicking the menu will display all of the tiers configured in the system. If multiple tiers are configured with overlapping numbers of customers impacted, the first tier (T1) values will take precedence over the second (T2) and third (T3) tiers; likewise, T2 will take precedence over T3.
The product configuration has three tiers each with five values:
• Tier 1
• T1 1-5 customers
• T1 6-25 customers
• T1 26-100 customers
• T1 101-250 customers
• T1 >250 customers
• Tier 2
• T2 1-10 customers
• T2 11-100 customers
• T2 101-250 customers
• T2 251-500 customers
• T2 >500 customers
• Tier 3
• T3 1-50 customers
• T3 51-250 customers
• T3 251-500 customers
• T3 501-750 customers
• T3 >750 customers
• The Remove button highlights the selected row and it's child rows (zones) whose ERT value is empty (in red) to indicate that it has been marked for removal from the table in the ERT Override dialog box. Rows are not removed until you click the OK button.
• The OK button applies any actions taken, with the following exceptions:
• If the ERT Override table contains more than one row for the same zone, an error dialog box will appear and no changes will be saved. I
• If another user enters an ERT override while you have the dialog box open, the system will block the update and display an ERT override conflict message that tells you to refresh the data to see the latest values. Once the data has been refreshed, using the Refresh button, you may then modify the ERT override, if still applicable.
• The Print… button brings up the Print Preview dialog box, which allows you to print out the contents of the ERT Override dialog box.
• The Cancel button closes the dialog box without saving changes, and leaves the accessibility/overrides of the Storm Management estimates as they were.
• The Refresh button repopulates the ERT Override dialog box with the latest information from the server.
Note: Applying overrides to the Storm Management estimates has no effect on events that have a crew onsite or events that have had an ERT manually entered in Oracle Utilities Network Management System. Those events will retain the display of their present manually entered/Storm Management ERT.
The following table describes what occurs when different combinations of ERT Override column and Publish Projections column values are applied.
If... | Then... |
|---|---|
The Publish Projections check box is checked and you enter a date and time in the ERT Override column for that row… | All events in that control zone will receive that date and time as their default ERT value outside of Storm Management: The ERT Override value displays in the ERT Override field of the Summary Information table along with the word "Published." The ERT Override value displays for current outages in that control zone in other modules. New outages in that control zone receive the ERT Override value until you turn the override of the Storm Management estimates off. |
The Publish Projections check box is checked and you did not enter a date and time in the ERT Override column for that row… | • For top-level zones, publishing an empty ERT Override value is not supported. To hide ERT values, deselect the Publish Projections check box. • For child zones where the parent zone already has an override, then the blank value for the child zone indicates that it should be excluded from the parent override and normal ERT calculation is applied. |
If the Publish Projections check box is not checked and a date and time are entered in the ERT Override column for that row… | All events in that control zone will receive a blank value as their default ERT value outside of Storm Management, regardless of whether or not a date and time is entered in the ERT Override column for that row; current and new events display a blank ERT value in other modules until you turn the override of the Storm Management estimates off. The ERT Override value displays in the ERT Override field of the Summary Information table along with the word "Non-Published." |
If the Publish Projections check box is not checked and a date and time are not provided in the ERT Override column for that row… | All events in that control zone will receive a blank value as their default ERT value outside of Storm Management, regardless of whether or not a date and time is entered in the ERT Override column for that row; current and new events display a blank ERT value in other modules until you turn the override of the Storm Management estimates off. The ERT Override field in the Summary Information pane contains the word "Non-Published." |
Note: If the Override All Existing ERTs check box is selected, then all of the above operations are applied to all incomplete events irrespective of the Est Src.