5.15 - Beta Release (June 2022)

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Last updated: 13 Oct 2023 by Rohan ThomasVersion comment
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The changes in this beta will be available in the next Source production release due out at the end of June 2022.

This release includes:

  • Geographic Scenario Reporting Tool improvements,
  • changes to Supply Point ordering user interface,
  • Merge Catchment Scenarios,
  • Functional Unit rename and
  • Replicate runner - second phase.

Geographic Scenario Reporting Tool

We have introduced the concept of Reporting Regions. Available under Edit \ Reporting Regions 

These regions are used in the new Reporting Regions Data Collector. Available under Tools \ Analysis Windows \ Reporting Regions Data Collector….

And the results will be displayed in Tools \ Analysis Windows \ Map:

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Detailed documentation is available here: Catchment Map Reporting Region

Supply Point User interface changes

We have made some changes in the Supply Point user interface to be clearer about what different options were doing.

In Rules-Based Ordering:

  • Add Orders To Downstream Orders remains unchanged
  • Use Unregulated Flow To Satisfy Orders is now Use Min Constraint Flow To Satisfy Orders

In Net LP Ordering

  • Add Orders To Downstream Orders is now NetLP 2 phase solution: Add orders in 2nd phase
  • Use Unregulated Flow To Satisfy Orders is no longer selectable. It already had no effect on processing.

Merge Catchment Scenarios and Functional Unit rename

Now available under Tools \ Merge Catchments. You can now merge two catchment Scenarios into a single Scenario.

To help with using this tool, we also implemented Functional Unit renaming allowing you to rename Functional Units before or after a merge.

Replicate runner - Next phase

We have started to implement a replicate runner within Source for applications such as a risk of spill assessment.

There is a new Run configuration available in Scenario Options called Replicate Analysis Configuration. This can be added to the scenario. 

The following example cycles the Data Sources used in the model to create 20 Replicates. Replicates are generated using the same method that's been implemented in the Run Manager: Time Series Cycle Creator.

Results can be used in custom charts and viewed in the Results Manager.  .res.csv now includes meta data to identify the SubRunName that will be in the export.

  • Data sources can now be selected (RM-20190),
  • Annual Descriptive Statistics will now with across sub runs (RM-20199).

There are limitations we are continuing to work on. This will be available in future releases:

  • Runs in series and not in parallel, which is an important performance improvement (RM-20178),

Documentation is available here: Replicate analysis simulations in Source and will be incorporated into the documentation after the production release.

Plugin Developers

As we are moving to .net 6, we have now updated the .csproj format that is used by Source.  Please see: Csproj Format to go through the conversion process.

To compile Source you now require:

Regression Testing

There is no tolerance in our regression test suite to allow for earlier identification of results being different on different machines or versions of operating systems. 

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Details here: /wiki/spaces/SC/pages/51650164

Insight

To run Insight, you also need to install the 32bit version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
This installer is for 32bit machines and 64bit machines since the library we use is 32bit: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).

Full Release Documentation

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