{"id":1378052,"date":"2021-11-10T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1378052"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:35:30","slug":"whats-new-for-arcgis-utility-network-in-pro-2-9","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/announcements\/whats-new-for-arcgis-utility-network-in-pro-2-9","title":{"rendered":"What’s New for ArcGIS Utility Network in ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and Enterprise 10.9.1"},"author":9712,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,25741,25841],"tags":[42181,677901,33401,35461],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36561,515312],"class_list":["post-1378052","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-electric-gas","category-telecommunications","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-network-management","tag-un","tag-utility-network","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-pro","product-utility-network"],"acf":{"short_description":"Learn more about the new functionality and improvements made to ArcGIS Utility Network with ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

With the release of ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1, we\u2019ve carried over our emphasis on quality to deliver optimizations that help you work more efficiently, while also delivering on new functionality requested by our user community.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Significant work has been completed across the product to improve performance and provide new capabilities that increase the value of ArcGIS Utility Network in your organization.\u00a0 Many of these optimizations may go unnoticed as you perform your work, but this is by design.\u00a0 ArcGIS Utility Network aims to support and enable your work without getting in the way.<\/p>\n

One of the most notable performance improvements might be seen when importing associations through the Import Associations tool or creating and editing associations through attribute rules<\/a>.\u00a0 This optimization is also showcased during the apply asset package process.\u00a0 \u00a0Similar enhancements have focused on the user experience during tracing and editing to improve validate consistency and editing performance, respectively, for a more responsive experience.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Migrate utility network data using Copy and XML Workspace Document<\/h3>\n

One of the more obvious efficiencies introduced with this release is a new capability to support data migration workflows.\u00a0 With 2.9, the utility network can be migrated between geodatabases for staging and testing using the Copy and Paste tools in the Catalog pane or Copy geoprocessing tool.\u00a0 While the Asset Package remains the default and recommended method for staging your utility network, this option will benefit users who want to stage and configure their utility network in a file geodatabase before moving into production with an enterprise geodatabase.\u00a0 With support now available for the utility network on mobile (.sqlite) geodatabases<\/a>, this simple migration path paves the way for future support of offline workflows in runtime and mobile applications that require a mobile geodatabase.<\/p>\n

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Support for transfer of utility networks using an XML workspace document (Import and Export XML Workspace Document geoprocessing tools) provides another method to migrate your utility network and can be used to transfer across a firewall between internal systems.\u00a0 While this process can be used to transfer data (when working with smaller datasets), this method places an emphasis on migrating schemas.\u00a0 It’s important to note that XML transfer does not maintain the topology state and dirty areas in the destination geodatabase like the copy and paste workflows.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Upgrade Dataset changes<\/h3>\n

There may be situations where you want to upgrade your utility network to version 5 and take advantage of new capabilities such as named trace configurations, but do not want to perform a geodatabase upgrade.\u00a0 Starting with ArcGIS Pro 2.9, we no longer require that the geodatabase release match the client to perform Upgrade Dataset on the utility network, instead we only confirm that the ArcGIS release of the geodatabase is 10.8.1.2.6 or later to ensure that it can support the network.<\/p>\n

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Introducing the error inspector for utility networks<\/h3>\n

The error inspector has been extended and enhanced to work with the errors in the utility network.\u00a0 This provides a new method to review and work with errors in your network.\u00a0 View error details, filter based upon map extent, and more.\u00a0 With this initial release you have a simple interface to display and work with errors throughout the network or constrain the filter to display only those in the current map extent. Future releases will contain enhancements to the functionality offered here to improve the user experience when working to resolve error scenarios.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1384152,"id":1384152,"title":"Error Inspector","filename":"Error-Inspector.png","filesize":156025,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/announcements\/whats-new-for-arcgis-utility-network-in-pro-2-9\/error-inspector","alt":"Error Inspector pane for the utility network","author":"9712","description":"","caption":"The new Error Inspector pane for utility network errors.","name":"error-inspector","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1378052,"date":"2021-10-27 20:11:19","modified":"2021-11-10 15:29:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":789,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":254,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":421,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","large-width":1440,"large-height":789,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","1536x1536-width":1440,"1536x1536-height":789,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":789,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector-826x453.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":453,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Error-Inspector.png","wide_image-width":1440,"wide_image-height":789}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Geoprocessing tool updates<\/h2>\n

The following updates\u00a0 have been made to the Utility Network geoprocessing tools:<\/p>\n

Asynchronous processing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four geoprocessing tools within the Utility Network toolbox<\/a> have been updated to run asynchronously by default when run against a utility network in an enterprise geodatabase.<\/p>\n