Finding & Flagging Features

Introduction

Finding & Flagging Features covers locating something specific in a GASWorkS model and marking it for attention — two closely related jobs that become essential once a model grows beyond the size you can just scroll around and eyeball. Finding is about search: locating one customer, node, pipe, location, or piece of text by a known value. Flagging is about tracking: marking one or many features so you can review, revisit, or work through them systematically, whether you select them yourself or GASWorkS identifies them automatically against a condition.

The five articles below split along two lines. Finding Customers, Nodes & Pipes and Finding Locations, Text & Crossings cover search — by a specific data value, an ID number, a coordinate, or a crossing point. Flagging Customers, Nodes & Pipes covers marking features, either by hand or by query, plus a handful of automatic error-condition flags (invalid or redundant Link IDs, unassigned customers, supply nodes). Clearing Customer & Node Flags and Clearing Pipe, DXF & System Flags round the subcategory out — every flag a Find or Flag command sets eventually needs to be cleared, and these two articles cover that half of the workflow.

None of these commands change a model’s underlying data — they help you locate and keep track of the features you want to work with next, usually in Editing & Modifying Features or Deleting Features.

Module/Application

• Finding Customers, Nodes & Pipes
  • Use Case: Locate a single customer, node, or pipe by a search value, or directly by its Internal ID Number, Link ID Number, or Record Number.
  • Covers: Find A Customer, Find A Customer By Internal ID Number, Find A Customer By Link ID Number, Find A Customer By Record Number, Find A Node, Find A Node By Name, Find A Node By Record Number, Find A Pipe, Find A Pipe By Internal ID Number, Find A Pipe By Link ID Number, Find A Pipe By Record Number.
  • Differentiator: The core, feature-by-feature search article — general Search By queries plus direct ID lookups for the three main feature types.
• Finding Locations, Text & Crossings
  • Use Case: Search by something other than a standard feature value — a geographic location, DXF or User Text content, a pipe crossing, or any feature type at once.
  • Covers: Find Any Feature, Find DXF Text, Find A Geographic Location, Find Pipe Crossings, Find User Text, Go To An XY Coordinate Location.
  • Differentiator: Covers search types that fall outside the standard customer/node/pipe lookups in Finding Customers, Nodes & Pipes — coordinates, text content, and crossings.
• Flagging Customers, Nodes & Pipes
  • Use Case: Mark one or more customers, nodes, or pipes for attention — by clicking them directly, by a query against a data value, or automatically for a specific error condition.
  • Covers: Flag A Customer, Flag Customers By Item Value, Flag Customers With Invalid Link ID Numbers, Flag Customers With Redundant Link ID Numbers, Flag A Node, Flag Nodes By Item Value, Flag A Pipe, Flag Pipes By Item Value, Flag The Supply Node, Flag Unassigned Customers.
  • Differentiator: Unlike Find commands, multiple flags of the same type can be displayed at once — built for tracking a group of features, not just locating one.
• Clearing Customer & Node Flags
  • Use Case: Remove find and item flags from customers and nodes, one at a time or all at once.
  • Covers: Clear All Customer Flags, Clear All Node Flags, Clear The Customer Find Flag, Clear A Customer Flag, Clear Customer Item Flags, Clear The Node Find Flag, Clear A Node Flag, Clear Node Item Flags.
  • Differentiator: The customer- and node-specific half of flag cleanup — pipe, DXF, and system-level flags are covered separately.
• Clearing Pipe, DXF & System Flags
  • Use Case: Remove find and item flags from pipes, plus broader system-level flags — DXF find flags, error flags, GeoMapping flags and tiles, supply flags, and User Text find flags.
  • Covers: Clear All Flags, Clear All Pipe Flags, Clear The DXF Find Flag, Clear Error Flags, Clear The GeoMapping Flag, Clear The GeoMapping Tiles, Clear The Pipe Find Flag, Clear A Pipe Flag, Clear Pipe Item Flags, Clear The Supply Flags, Clear The User Text Find Flag.
  • Differentiator: The broadest clearing article — covers pipes plus every system-level flag type, including the single Clear All Flags command that resets everything at once.

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