Commissioning and Decommissioning Devices
To commission or decommission sets of devices, perform the following steps:
1. In the Viewer, load the pending device changes you wish to modify. You can select multiple devices.
2. Enable the Show Pending Devices option in the Hide/Display dialog box.
3. Switch to study mode if you don't want to affect the real-time model.
4. Select Commissioning Tool... from the Viewer's Actions menu. Selected devices pending approval are listed in the Waiting for Approval pane.
5. Select the devices you want to commission or decommission, then click the Approve () button.
Notes:
• Devices being decommissioned are no longer part of the model and are immediately de-energized, as are downstream devices.
• Commissioned devices immediately become part of the model and energization is recalculated (that is, a newly commissioned device attached to an energized conductor will become energized).
Selecting Pending Devices
When you select a device in the Viewer that is pending construction or decommission, the device is listed in one of the panes in the Commissioning Tool. To select multiple objects, shift-click and drag until the selection box surrounds the objects.
Note: Use the Show Pending Devices option in the Hide/Display dialog box to display or hide pending devices.
The Viewer displays the following commissioning-related conditions:
Symbol | Description |
|---|---|
 | Unapproved pending construction. |
 | Approved pending construction. |
 | Unapproved pending decommission. |
 | Approved pending decommission. |
Using the Commissioning Tool with Web Switching Management
The Commissioning Tool will generate switching steps for each commissioning/decommissioning devices action when Web Switching Management is licensed. Commissioning/decommissioning actions will always be recorded in Real-Time mode. The actions will either go into the Miscellaneous Log, Event Details Steps tab, or a switching sheet recording Real-Time operations. The tool recording the commissioning change will be indicated at the top of the Commissioning Tool.
Non-complete Commissioning and Decommissioning steps can be executed over and over again in Study mode within the switching sheet they were recorded into. In Real Time, the steps can only be Instructed and Completed one time which will initiate the action against the Real Time model. Completing the step in study mode will only cause the action to be completed in the user's study session.
For performance purposes, Commissioning and Decommissioning steps should be completed in groups by highlighting multiple steps during step execution operations. This will force the requests to be packaged and processed as a batch request. The batch processing will only work if the Commissioning and Decommissioning steps are contiguous in the steps list without any other type of step mixed in. You can still highlight a larger group of steps containing a mixture of step actions and execute them, but each contiguous group of Commissioning and Decommissioning steps will be processed as a batch request.
An error will be generated when completing a commissioning/decommissioning step where the device has not been setup for commissioning or decommissioning. This error will cause the step to not complete and will halt step execution.
A warning scenario will be generated when completing a commissioning/decommissioning step where the resulting action has already been applied to the device in question. The user will have the option of ignoring the warning, which will cause step execution to continue. If the warning is not ignored, then step execution will be stopped.
Using the Assessment Tool
The Assessment Tool allows you to mark conductors as assessed and clear the assessment mark on conductors that should not be marked as assessed.
To open the Assessment Tool, select Assessment Tool... from the Viewer's Tools menu.
The Assessment Tool displays two panes that provide the status of selected conductors:
• The To Assess pane displays conductors that are not marked as assessed.
• The Assessed pane displays conductors that have been marked as assessed.
Note: If you have not selected any conductors prior to launching the tool, both panes will be empty.
Launching the Assessment Tool
1. Enable the Assessed Highlighting option in the Hide/Display dialog box. See Hiding and Displaying Viewer Objects for information on using Hide/Display.
2. Select Assessment Tool... from the Viewer's Tools menu.
Assessment Tool Toolbar Button Actions
Action | Pane | Toolbar Button |
|---|---|---|
Mark a conductor as assessed. See Marking Conductors as Assessed for details. | To Assess | |
Remove the assessed status from conductors. See Removing the Assessed Status from Conductors for details. | Assessed | |
Focus the Viewer on a selected conductor. | To Assess, Assessed | |
Remove conductors from the list. See Removing Conductors from the Lists for details. | To Assess, Assessed |
Note: All of the toolbar button functions are available from right‑click context menu options when conductors are selected in a list.