Figure 1. User interface for Source
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The Data Sources toolbar allows you to add and manage sources of data (time series or by linking to another scenario). You can edit or view this data once it has been loaded in the Data Sources Explorer.
File toolbar
The File toolbar contains commands for creating a new project, opening an existing project, and saving a project (and all the scenarios within that project).
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To create an Operations scenario, first create a River Manager scenario. Then, choose to open the River Operations dialog.
Opening a scenario
When a project only contains one scenario, that scenario is opened automatically when you open the project. However, when a project contains more than one scenario, you must open each scenario individually.
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Note: You cannot use an earlier version of Source to open a project that was saved by a later version. |
Copying a scenario
You can duplicate existing scenarios. You may want to do this if you wish to experiment with variations without affecting your original scenario.
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Note: Catchment runoff is fed into links, so deleting a link that is associated with a catchment effectively stops that catchment runoff from entering the system. When this happens, the catchment boundary is highlighted to indicate that the catchment is disconnected from the network. Follow the steps listed to reconnect the catchment to the network. |
You can also set geolocation coordinates and elevations for nodes and reaches using the Location Control window (using View » Location Control, as shown in figure 12). While it is not essential, it is convenient to set elevations with respect to Australian Height Datum (AHD). You can enter negative numbers for components that are below sea level, such as the lower lakes of the Murray. The elevation of a component is the zero point for that component. For example, the zero point for a storage is the lowest point in the storage.
Figure 12. Location control
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You can customise the Tabular Editor to your needs. For each type of node or link, you can select:
- A background colour for the cell;
- A foreground colour and stylistic variation (eg. bold-face) for values displayed in the cell; and
- The number of decimal places to be displayed.
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- By adjusting a set of user preferences. See Tabular Editor Formatting. Changes made via this method apply to all projects; or
- By right-clicking a column heading and choosing Column Formatting (refer to Column formatting). Changes made via this method only apply to the current project.
Column formatting
In this window, the Multiple Expressions tab (as shown in Figure 19) allows you to apply conditional formatting to cells in the tabular editor to highlight when thresholds or rules are breached eg. Flow < 500 ML/day. More than one expression can be applied to a cell. Click Add to specify the details of an expression, and Edit to define the expression using the Function editor. When more than one condition is satisfied, the cell is formatted as per the left side of the panel. Hover the mouse over the cell with the conditional format, and the expression name is displayed. Click Remove to delete an expression from the list.
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The Column Settings tab allows you to override project-related Tabular Editor Format Settings for the parameters displayed in the Tabular Editor.
Figure 20. Tabular editor, Formatting, column settings
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- Parameters applicable to a node or link may be grouped according to related purposes;
- Some user interface elements are only enabled if their prerequisites have been met;
- The ability to search for elements in the hierarchical list, with the result displaying all instances of the query (both parent and child if applicable). Notice that when you enter the search criteria (as shown in Feature Editor 1 Figure 32), the results are displayed in blue. In this case, the term ‘flow’ appears in both the parent and child; and
- When multiple values can be entered for a single parameter, only one value can be adjusted at a time. A highlight (normally blue) indicates the field being manipulated. To edit a different field in this table, click the mouse pointer in the target field.
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Figure 32. Inflow node (Search functionality)
Many feature editors support loading parameter information from a file. Where present, the Import... button can be used to load parameters into a feature editor whereas the corresponding Export... button will save the table’s current values to an external file. Additionally, as an alternative to entering or importing discrete parameter settings, the feature editors for many nodes allow for the node’s behaviour to be defined via an arithmetic expression or function (refer to Function manager).
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notes
You can include a text based message associated with a node, link or function, which can be either:
- Informational;
- Warning; or
- An error.
To add a note to a node or link, refer to . For a function, refer to
Each of the different message types has a different icon. Figure 33 shows an example of an informational note added at an Inflow node.
Figure 33. Notes, Overview
A summary of all nodes can also be viewed using View » Notes (shown in Figure 34). This provides a summary of all the notes in the scenario, along with the node or link it is associated with.
Figure 34. Notes, Summary
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Piecewise linear editors are used in a number of places within Source. They allow you to arbitrarily define complex relationships in two dimensions. A typical use is a relationship between inflow (on the X-axis, or abscissa) and outflow (on the Y-axis, or ordinate). As the name suggests, piecewise linear editors are formed by concatenating line segments. The number of coordinate-pairs entered into any piecewise linear editor, and the comparative simplicity or complexity of the resulting relationship "curve", is up to you.
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Date-pickers are used in a number of places within Source. They are a combination of an editable text field and a pop-up calendar. Figure 33 35 shows the relationship between the various components.
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3335. Date-picker
You can edit a date directly by selecting either the Day, Month or Year element within the text field (you cannot select the day of the week). Once an element has been selected, you can also change the selection by using the left and right arrow keys. You can adjust an element’s value by using the up and down arrow keys or by entering a new numeric value. Note that you also use numeric values for the Month element. For example, typing "7" changes the Month element to "July".
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