Design Actions

To see available design actions, first click it to highlight in green.

For convenience, the Open button is most prominent, as it is the most commonly used action.

However, you can also click the More drop-down to see other available actions.

The other available actions include the following:

• Reassign: This allows you to assign the design to a different designer in your company. It does not advance the design either “up” or “down” in your company’s workflow. It is a lateral movement to another designer. The recipient receives the design, all of its metadata, and all of its current design work.

  IMPORTANT: Reassign is available while the design is in a design state (also known as a draw state). Reassign is not available if a design is in an approval state.

• Rename: This allows you to type a new name for the design. It does not change the name of the Work Request. If there are multiple designs within the same Work Request, each design must have a unique name.

• Move: This allows you to move the design into a different Work Request. Along the same lines, it allows you to move a local design (a design you created within the application that currently does not have a Work Request) into an existing Work Request.

  • Once you click Move, a dialog appears allowing you to search and select the appropriate Work Request.

  • If the design is currently Selected, it cannot be moved. First, select a different design within the same Work Request. This “unlocks” the Move action, and then you can move the design to a different Work Request.

• Select Design: If you have a few design alternatives within the same Work Request, you select the recommended or final design before pushing the Work Request to the next step in your company’s workflow. Depending on your company’s workflow, the “non-selected” designs might or might not be sent. If you are using the application’s out-of-the-box approval workflow, the other non-selected designs are sent along with the selected design. In other words, the approval officer receives not only the design you selected but also the alternatives. At that point, the approval office can determine which design to push all the way to your company’s GIS. Finally, even when you only have a single design, you can still select it. This can be part of your company’s workflow, and it might indicate a completion step (it depends on how your company configures the workflow). See the Example Workflow for Design Alternatives for more information.

• Delete: This permanently deletes the design. There is not an undo for this action. You receive a confirmation message before deletion.

  • If the design is currently Selected, it cannot be deleted. First, select a different design within the same Work Request. This “unlocks” the Delete action, and then you can delete the design.

• Rebase: As you are working on your design, the underlying GIS data might have changed in your same design area. For example, if you were branching off a main line, the main line itself might have been moved or updated before you had a chance to push your work to the GIS. Rebase allows you to bring in the most updated versions of the existing features in and around your design.

  IMPORTANT:

  • Rebase relies on Geodatabase Regions (GRRs). If a GRR cannot be found, the Rebase fails with an error message indicating the missing GRR. Speak with your administrator to ensure the GRRs are created and scheduled for routine updates.

  • If you have a design open, the Rebase operation closes it, even if that’s not the design you are Rebasing. Don’t worry, it gives you a chance to save or discard your unsaved edits. Once the Rebase operation is complete, you can re-open your design.

  • As Rebase is operating, essentially all actions and tasks on the My Work tab are temporarily unavailable. They become available once Rebase is complete.

  • You cannot undo the changes made by Rebase.

  • Since you have not pushed your design yet, the GIS does not know about your Install CUs. Rebase does not change the attributes on your Install CUs, but their connectivity might change.

    • If you have snapped a point on a line, and then that line’s geographic shape or position changes, your point remains in the same location. However, it is disconnected. If you need to re-connect the point, use the Move tool to move the point off the line, then back on the line.

    • Similarly, if you have snapped a line to an existing line, and then the existing line’s shape changes, your new line remains but it is disconnected. Use the Move tool to re-connect.

    • Also, imagine you snapped an Install CU on an existing line, and that action split the line in two parts. But then, in the GIS, that same line is modified in a different way that does not correspond to where you split the line. Rebase keeps your Install CUs in their previous locations, but they are disconnected. This is because the underlying line where they were snapped into has been changed. Use the Move tool to re-connect.

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  • If you have added a Remove CU on an existing feature, and then that feature is deleted in the GIS, the Rebase deletes your Remove CUs. This is because the feature you’ve set to remove no longer exists.

  • If you have added a Remove CU on an existing feature, and then the shape or location of that feature is changed in the GIS, the Rebase updates your Remove CUs to match the new shape or location of the existing feature. For a line, this means the Remove CU line is reshaped to match the GIS line. For points, this means the Remove CUs are relocated to the new position of the point features.

    TIP: If you use the Rebase tool often, work with your administrator to develop a helpful Design Style that clearly calls out disconnected features. With a helpful Design Style, you can see at a glance which design components were affected by the Rebase.