Customer Lateral

Question

Is there a way to confirm that each customer meter element has a lateral connecting it to the main? I know you can use Loadbuilder to assign to nearest pipe but due to the location of my customer meter elements, I cannot utilize this method. This will cause the many of customer meters to be assigned to the wrong mains so I have to manually assign them to the correct main. 
 
 I want to be able to confirm that all meters have been assigned a main via a lateral connection without clearing out the "associated element" field of all customers.

Jesse Dringoli · Accepted Answer

Hello tschrage, 
 Please see the following wiki article I just created, for options and steps for how to do this: 
 Finding customer meters not connected via a lateral

Jesse Dringoli · Answer

Hello tschrage, 
 
The method in the article would retrieve customer meters not associated with an element (pipe/node), as well as customer meters that are associated with an element, but not attached for a lateral. So, it should work for you. I tested it with some made-up data with a mix of customer meters not associated with an element, ones that are, and some that have a tap/lateral and some that do not.