Configure Water Utility Hydrant Inspections

Water Utility Hydrant Inspections can be used to streamline fire hydrant inspections and monitor inspection programs that help water utilities increase hydrant reliability.

In this topic, you'll learn how to configure the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution to meet specific needs of your organization.

Provision users

Included in the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution are a few groups designed to help managers organize their members based on the work they do and their privileges.

To add members to the two groups and the workforce project, complete the following steps:

Add users to groups

Included with Water Utility Hydrant Inspections are two groups designed to help managers organize their members based on their privileges and their work.

To add members to the groups, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your ArcGIS organization.
   Verify that you have privileges to manage member groups before continuing.
2. Click Groups at the top of the site.
3. Click the name of the group to open the group details pages.

   Review the table below regarding the groups included with the solution.

4. On the Settings tab, edit and update the properties of the group, including access, sharing properties, and group ownership.
5. Click the Overview tab and click Invite users.
6. Select the members you want to add and click Add to group.
7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each group where you need to add new members.

The provided groups are intended to be utilized by members with the following user types in order to fully use the provided maps and apps:

Group name	Minimum user type
Hydrant Inspections - Office Users	Editor
Hydrant Inspections - Field Users	Mobile Worker

Add users to an ArcGIS Workforce project

Included with Water Utility Hydrant Inspections is an ArcGIS Workforce project to dispatch hydrant inspection work. Users need to be assigned the role of mobile worker within that project in order for them to receive and complete hydrant inspection assignments. Users can also be assigned the role of dispatcher to review and assign inspection work.

To add users to the project, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your ArcGIS organization and click the Apps button in the header of the site.
2. From the app launcher, click Workforce to open the app.
3. Under Projects, hover over the Hydrant Inspection Assignments project, and click Configure.
4. Click the Users tab.
5. From the Organization User drop-down menu, select a user to add to the project.
6. From the Project Role menu, assign the user either the dispatcher role or mobile worker role.
7. Click +User.
8. Repeat the steps above for each mobile worker and dispatcher who needs to conduct hydrant inspections.

Share the Hydrant Status Map

Included with the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution is the Hydrant Status Map for external agencies to view up-to-date hydrant inspection statuses. Share this map and provide it to external stakeholders.

Load Data

This solution deploys with the WaterDistributionSystem feature layer from the Water Distribution Data Management solution. If you are utilizing the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution independently from the Water Distribution Data Management solution, you will need to load data into the Hydrant layer.

Note:

This workflow is optional and doesn't need to be completed in order to work with the solution.

Use the Data Loading Tools

The Data Loading Tools can be used in ArcGIS Pro to streamline loading data from a source to a target dataset and provide the ability to perform in-process data transformation.

1. Open the ArcGIS Pro and click the Map template.
2. Type a name for the new project into the Name text box.
3. On the Project tab, click Python to access the Python Package Manager.
4. Under Project Environment, click Manage Environments.
5. Click Clone Default to clone your default environment.
6. Click the Active button for the new environment, and click OK.
7. Restart ArcGIS Pro to allow your environment changes to take effect.
8. In the Python Package Manager, click Add Packages to see the Python packages available for installation.
9. Click Refresh to update the list of available packages.
10. In the Search box, type dltsolutions to find the Data Loading Tools toolbox.
11. Select the dltsolutions package and click the drop-down menu to update the version.
12. Click Install.

    The Install Package dialog box appears.

13. Review the terms and conditions and check the box to agree.
14. Click Install to install the package.
15. Once the installation is complete, close ArcGIS Pro.

    The Data Loading Tools toolbox is now installed. The next time you start ArcGIS Pro, you can access it from the geoprocessing toolboxes.

16. Review An overview of the Data Loading Tools toolbox to learn more about the tools and how to use them to load data into the WaterDistributionSystem feature layer.