Menus
The menu bar for Source is shown in Figure 1. The remainder of this section describes the function of the commands in each menu.
Figure 1. Menu bar
Figure 2. File menu
Creates a new, empty project. Opens the New Project dialog where you can name your project, provide a brief description of its purpose and choose the type of scenario you wish to create.
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Attaches a new, empty scenario to the current project. Opens the Create a Scenario Creation dialog (Figure 16) which offers a choice of a Geographic wizard, River Manager or River Operator schematic scenarios. Select the type which is appropriate to your needs. Name your scenario and provide a brief description of its purpose and click OK. This command is a synonym for New Scenario (by menu) on the Project Explorer toolbar.
Opens an existing project using the standard Windows™ open dialog (Figure 14). Synonym for Open Project on the File toolbar. Source projects use the ".rsproj" or ".rsproj.xml" extensions but can also open legacy project types ".e2proj" and ".mdb".
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Quit Source. You are asked to confirm your intention (Figure 12) and reminded to save any unsaved work.
Figure 3. Edit menu
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Opens the Input Sets model dialog.
Figure 3. View menu
Many of the commands in this menu control whether a window is visible on your screen. The commands act as toggles:
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Toggles whether the Location Control is visible on screen (Figure 239). Synonym for Location Control on the Scenario toolbar. You can use this window to set geolocation coordinates and elevations for nodes, and elevations for reaches. While it is not essential, it is conventional 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.
View » Node Palette
Toggles whether the Node Palette is visible on screen. Synonym for Node Palette on the Scenario toolbar.
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Opens the Expression List Viewer (Figure 66).
Figure 4. Run menu
Selects the type of analysis to be performed. Synonym for Select Analysis Type on the Simulation toolbar. See Running scenarios and Forecasting.
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Opens the Run Multiple Scenarios window.
Figure 5. Tools menu
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Opens the Edit Tabular Formatting Settings dialog (Figure 228). Refer to the chapter on User preferences.
Figure 6. Help menu
Opens this guide.
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Toolbars in the main window offer shortcuts to their equivalent menu commands.
Figure 7. Data Sources toolbar
New Data Source
Creates a new data source. The available options are:
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Filters out all data items with incompatible units
Figure 8. File toolbar
New Scenario
Creates a new, empty scenario. Synonym for both and New Scenario (by menu) on the Project Explorer toolbar.
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Saves the current project, overwriting the existing file. Synonym for Implies if the project has never been saved.
Figure 9. Geographic Editor toolbar
Print (Geographic Editor toolbar)
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The buttons and pop-up menus accessible from the Graph tab toolbar are explained in more detail in the chapter on Using the Charting Tool. See Graph viewing options.
Figure 10. Graph tab toolbar
Drag to overlay
Used to overlay one graph onto another.
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A pop-up menu providing access to printing tools.
Figure 11. Layer Manager toolbar
Add layer
Allows the addition of a new layer to the geographic view.
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Removes the layer currently selected in the Layer Manager from the geographic view.
Figure 12. Ordering toolbar
Configure Ordering
A pop-up menu with two options:
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Toggles whether the Chart Recorder is visible on screen. Synonym for .
Figure 13. Project Explorer toolbar
New Scenario (by menu)
Attaches a new, empty scenario to the current project. Synonym for both and New Scenario on the File toolbar. The available scenario options are:
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- Parameter View which changes the Project Hierarchy so that it is classified according to the kind of recordable parameter;
- Source Catchments view, which is not relevant to Source; and
- River Manager (Default) view which changes the Project Hierarchy so that it is classified according to the kind of recordable component.
Figure 14. Recording Manager toolbar
Save Run Results
Exports time-series data from the currently-selected run to either a .CSV or tab-separated-value file.
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This button lists the run results based on the network run order – leaf nodes to outlet node. Note that this is the default order of run results. It can be used to reset the results after other sorting methods (such as column headings) have been used.
Figure 15. Scenario toolbar
Geographic Editor
Toggles the state of the Geographic View tab. Synonym for .
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Toggles the state of the Tabular Editor tab. Synonym for .
Figure 16. Schematic Editor grid toolbar
Display Grid
Controls whether the Schematic Editor displays a grid on the drawing canvas.
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Prepares the Schematic Editor for saving in JPEG format.
Figure 17. Schematic Editor options toolbar
Allow Link Dragged
Enabling this button allows you to disconnect the downstream end of a link from the node to which it is attached, and then re-connect that link to the upstream inlet of another node. You can use this feature to insert new nodes into a schematic without losing the configuration of existing links.
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This button is a popup menu containing three options:
- Tool tips on - when selected, clicking on any node in the Schematic Editor causes a small floating window to appear which contains additional information about that node.
- Tool tips off - when selected, the floating windows do not appear.
- Tool tips locked - when selected, clicking any node in the Schematic Editor causes a small floating window to appear next to every node.
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Selects the type of analysis to be performed. Synonym for . The options are:
- Flow Calibration analysis, which derives the "best" set of parameter values so that output from the model matches an observed data set;
- Run w/Warm Up, which seeds the model with the available historical data and prepares for forecasting. See also Incorporating uncertainty into climate variability;
- Single analysis, which simulates the river performance for a single set of conditions (as opposed to an iterative analysis which considers several possible outcomes); or
- Stochastic analysis, which is used when dealing with stochastic climate data. Refer to Calibration Wizard for catchments.
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Opens a configuration window for the selected analysis type where you can set parameters to control the run (eg date-range). Synonym for
Begin Analysis (Run)
Performs the selected analysis. Synonym for
Figure 18. Statistics toolbar
Monthly
Shows the statistics for each month of the year in the period run.
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