Static Demand Allocation wizard - overview

Purpose of the wizard

The Static Demand Allocation wizard is used for allocating demand data imported as customer points to nodes in the network.

The wizard serves two main purposes:

Note

The Total Connections field at a node will not be updated automatically with changes to allocations made via the Demand Allocation wizard. Total Connections may need to be reset if significant allocation changes have been made. See Setting Total Connections for more information.

Starting the wizard

The wizard is started by selecting Static demand allocation from the Model menu. The Model menu is visible only when there is a network open, and one of the network views is the current active window. The Static demand allocation menu item is available only if a map control has been selected for the GeoPlan (see Selecting the map control).

Using the wizard

The wizard has a number of pages:

The schematic below shows the steps through the Static Demand Allocation wizard. Click a box to go to the relevant page.

 

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Static Demand Allocation wizard


Static Demand Allocation

About customer points

Static Demand Allocation wizard - Start Demand Allocation page

Static Demand Allocation wizard - Data Acquisition Control page

Demand Area - Definition page

Static Demand Allocation wizard - Review Data page

Static Demand Allocation wizard - Potential Allocation Pipes page

Static Demand Allocation wizard - Allocate to Network page

Static Demand Allocation wizard - View Unallocated page

Static Demand Allocation wizard - Apply page