Editing basic settings of the project

Name of the project. By default, it is the name you specified when creating the project. If you change the project name, this will not affect the name of the project file or project folder.

Click the Edit base version button to open and edit the data of the version file (Editing the base version).

Click the Edit project directories button to specify per file type how you want to manage your data:

• in a common directory (SharedData folder),
• separately for each scenario (Scenarios folder).

To structure the organization of your project data, you can create subfolders for the Scenario and SharedData folders. In the Folder (relative) column, click the button to specify the storage location for each file type.

To open or save a file in procedure sequence, simply enter the respective file name. Via the project directories, it is specified from where the file is retrieved and where it is saved.

Note

When you edit the base version, the program automatically suggests the SharedData folder as storage location.

This button opens a new window. Here you can set the following option: Do not save attributes with default values to modifications.

Note

If this option has been selected, attributes with default values are not saved when generating the model transfer files when editing a modification. When changing to the next main version, the meaning of files with a deviating default changes.

Base version name

You can change the name of the base version if no object is locked in the project.

A new window opens via the Protect project button. Here you can select parts of the project which you want to lock. The following parts can be locked:

• Base version
• Scenario indicators
• Settings for project directories

You cannot edit locked parts. In the different tabs, use attribute Lock in protected project to select which objects shall be locked in the protected project. The attribute is not contained in the standard layout. You can select it in the attribute selection window of the respective tab.

To lock and later on unlock parts of the project, you have to create a password.

Via the Check / revoke project protection button, you can then verify or reverse the lock.

Click the  Create log entry icon to insert a new row at the end of the log file. Here you can enter text and change the date if required.

Note

For some operations, such as creating a project, log entries are created automatically. You can also edit these in the list.

• Creating and managing scenarios (Managing scenarios)
• Calculating scenarios (Calculating scenarios and showing results)
• Comparing scenarios (Comparing scenarios)
• Exporting scenarios (Saving a scenario as a version file)

• Creating and managing modifications (Managing modifications)
• Exporting modifications (Saving modifications as a model transfer file)

Managing procedure parameter sets (Specifying procedure parameters)

Managing comparison patterns for scenario comparison (Creating comparison patterns)

Managing the distributed computing of scenarios

(Managing compute nodes)