The following electric utilities maintenance work orders will help illustrate some of the default behavior for replicating data.
A maintenance crew is preparing to inspect some of the electric utilities in a residential area. To do some field editing, the crew needs to replicate that part of the electric network that covers this residential area. To start the replication process, the spatial extent of the inspection area is identified using a spatial filter (in this case, the extent is determined by a selected graphic).
The crew is to concentrate on cables that have been insulated with a particular material. To identify these cables, a query is applied to the relevant dataset.
Finally, as each maintenance crew can expect to visit only a certain number of properties in a day, the homes in one residential block are identified by a selection based on property numbers.
The selected features, features identified by a definition query, and features that intersect the chosen spatial extent will be replicated. Some additional network features have also been included. How geometric networks are replicated is explained in greater detail in
Replicating geometric networks.