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Question - should we acknowledge the investment by Melbourne Water and us?
GD:I think it would be good to acknowledge them.
Source 5.0 also contains a broad range of other upgrades and enhancements to the platform, including changes to support river operations, a new ordering tool, performance improvements and greater control over the application of constraints.
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With Urban Developer you can assess the full range of indoor and outdoor water uses for four types of dwellings, detached house, detached house with a rainwater tank, semi-attached house and apartments. It generates a database of average water demand for every combination of household type, occupancy and end-use, for the given climate. Urban Developer takes into account the full range of water efficiency End-uses include showers, hand taps, toilets, washing machines, dishwashers, pools and outdoor use.
Urban Developer helps water managers understand things like:
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Note that for large networks, it does record a lot of data and is primarily for problem-solving and not intended to always be turned on. We will do more improvements to this tool for the next production release.
A new Water User and Constraint Phase
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Example: A function assigned to a Water User, that says it evaluates in the Ordering Phase, will now happen later than it previously did. To evaluate it at the same time as it did in v4.11, the time of evaluation needs to be moved to the Water User & Constraint Phase.
Migration Code
So to To minimise the effect in splitting this phase in two, we've written some migration code.
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otherwise, we leave it as 'Ordering Phase'
Limitations
We know our migration codes is not perfect:
- We don't cater for Functions activated via input sets.
- Functions not used on a model, but only used by other Functions will not be moved
Recommended steps
We recommend you review any functions that are evaluated in the ordering phase and ensure they are configured correctly using: Edit \ Feature Table.. \ Functions.
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The format used (called Source Time Series Database .sdb) is now also available as a general timeseries format. time series format. There is also a new command line utility for interacting with the format: Source.DataUtility.exe run with --help to see the instructions for interacting with the utility.
Performance improvements
We have made changes to significantly improve performance for editing and saving in some large models, for one project this reduced the time to save from 12 minutes to 45 seconds.
We have also improved the performance of the command line so that less memory (RAM) is now used during a run. Run times have been significantly reduced in the command line.
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There are three modes currently available:
- NoOutput - Does not save results anywhere, hence does not fetch results either. Can be used where the result data files are ignored. E.g. in tests, or where a plugin gives a different pathway to results. This improves performance when using automatic exporting tools such as Scenario Options: Simulation results or Simulation Log which automatically exports results after each run to a specific location.
- ClientNamedFormatClientNamedFormat - Results fetched to client, saved to output file from there, in a format based on output file extension. The data is transferred back to the client and saved (current behaviour).
- ServerNamedFormat - Results saved to output file directly from server, in a format based on output file extension. Does not fetch results to client. This "server side" save is more efficient. Default for InProcess mode, since "server side" is local here. Can be used in Client mode, assuming the end user has access to the path provided to the server e.g. a network drive.
Summary of minor changes
- Data Sources can now find data based on the column name rather than the index. Being able to match by name is important when using Reload on Run. Match data items by Name is now the default option.
It will validate and fail to run if you are matching based on name and reload a file with duplicate names. - Custom charts now include a search bar and more menu items under right-click. Customs charts are also no longer saved by default. All automatically generated charts are created under Temporary and only saved when moved into Saved. Users can also create folders and subfolders for organising custom charts.
- Constituent Trend and % removal model. Links and Storages decay models have been extended to include a decay to a background concentration rather than to 0 and a % removal that can occur after the decay.
- We have made improvements to Date Ranges. This will change results for a number of users, so we have implemented a Scenario Option to turn on the new Date Ranges algorithm. Existing projects won't be using the new method and will have to manually swap over. This gives users a chance to test the new implementation before it becomes the only option.
We have introduced the concept of Locking to the Function Modelled Variables, selected variables can now be locked, making it less likely for mistakes to occur.
Ordering for the Irrigator demand model now includes an option to make the Flow phase and Order phase identical.Data Sources can now find data based on the column name rather than the index. Being able to match by name is important when using Reload on Run. Match data items by Name is now the default option.
It will validate and fail to run if you are matching based on name and reload a file with duplicate names.You can now freeze columns and drag columns to reorder the columns in the Allocation table within Resource Assessment.
Constituent Trend and % removal model. Links and Storages decay models have been extended to include a decay to a background concentration rather than to 0 and a % removal that can occur after the decay.
- Annual Accounting recorder changes. Some annual accounting recorders at RAS system level were giving incorrect values. The recorded values of "Total account spill reduction", "Total usage water year" and "Total Account Adjustments" at RAS system level values will change. See RM-18149 for details.
- Ownership adjustment for storages and weirs - End of day volumes in Storages and Weirs can now be adjusted.Custom charts now include a search bar and more menu items under right-click. Customs charts are also no longer saved by default. All automatically generated charts are created under Temporary and only saved when moved into Saved. Users can also create folders and subfolders for organising custom charts.
- We have made changes to the version numbering system to help users understand when they need a new version of Source to open projects. Details are available at: 4.13 - Beta Release (June 2020)
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