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Create Totaled points and bill points to aggregate point and bill point data
Understand how to update point and bill point scopes using Add to building totals
Troubleshoot common issues
Overview
Totaled Points are a new type of point object designed to simplify and automate the creation of whole building resource totals. They reduce the manual overhead required during onboarding and ongoing maintenance by efficiently summing up resource-level data within buildings.
Low-touch aggregation: Totaled Points immediately sum all points or bill points where Add to building totals is enabled for a given resource within a building.
Scope-locked: They always represent Whole Building scope and are not editable.
No custom logic: Unlike Calculated Points, Totaled Points do not allow custom formulas, only basic aggregation.
Create a Totaled Point
Totaled points are automatically created when Add to building totals is enabled for two or more points of a given resource with a building, and will be assigned a scope of Whole building.
Totaled points and bill points support different input point types. Totaled points are created from points only, while Totaled bill points are created from bill points or points.
Totaled points share the following characteristics with Calculated points:
Edit fields:
Point name
Point short name
Atrius ID
Display unit
Description
Assign tags
Reference in calculated points
View input point readings
Enable or disable Add to building totals
Add to building totals setting is primarily found on the Point profile.
Yes - Include in the Whole building total
No - Do not include in the Whole building total
The setting can also be found in:
Batch point/bill point creation - Add to building totals column in upload CSV
Points/Bills - batch actions allow users to select multiple points to Add to building totals
Point/Bill point discovery - When connecting points directly from integrations pages, enable Add to building totals.
Behavior
If one point or bill point of a given resource in a building has Add to building totals enabled, the point's scope will automatically update to Whole building, making this single point representative of the whole building resource total.
When a second point (or more) has Add to building totals enabled:
A new Totaled point is generated to aggregate the input points and represent the whole building resource total
The scope of the Totaled point is set to Whole building
The scope of the input points is updated to Sub-point
If, subsequently, points are removed from the Totaled point, leaving only a single point with Add to building totals = Yes, then the Totaled point will remain, with only the single point in it. At this stage, a user may choose to delete the Totaled point, in which case the single sub-point with Add to building totals = Yes will become the Whole building point.
Troubleshooting
Under the following conditions, a point will not be set to Add to building totals or included in a Totaled point, and the user will receive an error message.
Double-counting:
If a calculated point and an input point are both selected to Add to building totals.
Only 1 of the pair will be enabled to avoid double-counting.
Inconvertible units:
If multiple points are selected to Add to building totals, and contain units that do not have a compatible unit conversion.
The Totaled point will be created based on the most common convertible units found in the selection. Points with inconvertible units will be excluded.
Deleting a Totaled point
The delete button will only be available if there is only 1 sub-point included in the Totaled point. Otherwise, to remove a Totaled point, disable the Add to building totals setting on all the input points.