Creating scenarios

To create scenarios, you need a project (Creating a project for scenario management).

1.  Make sure the desired project is open (Editing basic settings of the project).

2.  In the Edit project window, click the Scenarios tab.

3.  Then click the  Create scenario icon.

Tip: Alternatively, click the  Duplicate scenario icon to copy a scenario.

In the list, a row is created for the new scenario.

4.  Make your changes in the respective columns.

Element

Description

Active

Via the checkbox, you can select scenarios for editing via the icons. Only scenarios set as active are edited.

Notes

Via the shortcut menu, you can set several marked scenarios to active state at the same time.

You can select filter criteria for the data in a column to display only a selection in the list (Filtering the data of a column).

Number

Number of the scenario

Code

Code of scenario

Description

Description of scenario

Procedure parameter set

By default, a scenario is assigned the same parameter set as the base version (entry 0 from base version). If you have specified several parameter sets, select the set of your choice from the drop-down list (Specifying procedure parameters).

Modifications

Allocated modifications

Use this button to allocate modifications to a scenario (Assigning modifications to a scenario). If you do not allocate a modification, the scenario corresponds to the base version.

Note

The Modifications (completed) column lists the modifications assigned and the modifications that are dependent on the ones assigned. A scenario thus consists of the base version and all modifications listed in the Modifications (completed) column. The Modifications (completed, sorted by load order) column lists all modifications of a scenario in the order they are loaded.

Global layout

You can use the drop-down list to assign a global layout that is used when the scenario is opened.

Note

You create global layouts on the Global layouts tab.

When changing or reselecting a global layout, calculated scenarios to which it is assigned receive the calculation status Calculated (not up-to-date).

Calculation status

Calculation status of the scenario (Calculating scenarios locally on a computer)

Progress

Progress of the calculation of the scenario

Calculation start time

Date and start time of the last calculation of the scenario

Calculation end time

Date and end time of the last calculation of the scenario

Calculation duration

Duration of the last calculation of the scenario

Compute node

Name of the compute node used for the calculation

Notes: Click the Select attributes icon to show and hide columns (Selection of multiple attributes). Here you can also select the code numbers you specified in the Basic settings tab (Editing basic settings of the project).

If required, you can group the columns using the shortcut menu (Aggregating rows of a list).