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Warning

This module will reach its end-of-life (EOL) status in the coming years. This means that there will be no active development of this module. Configurators are urged to use the new what-if editor instead, see 34 What-If Templates - What-If Editor.

For the most recent status of the removal please visit: Delft-FEWS End of Life Modules and Displays - DELFT-FEWS Documentation - Deltares Public Wiki

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What-if Scenario Display

The What-if Scenario display allows for the definition of What-if Scenarios. The What-if Scenarios can be used, when running forecasts via the Manual Forecast display. The latter allows for selection of What-if Scenarios defined in the What-if Scenario display.

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  • a transformation of an input time series
  • the use of a user defined typical profile
  • the use of a complete alternative module dataset
  • the use of an alternative subset of module parameters

Transformation

In the field Select Input Variable , an input time series can be selected from a drop-down list for transformation.

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What-if Scenarios can be run via the Manual Forecast Display.

User Defined Profile

In the User Defined Profile Tab, the user can define a user defined profile that may be used that as an input time series for a workflow. To add a user defined profile the data should be entered in a table. First press the [Add New Scenario] button to start a new What-if scenario.

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The buttons [Import All], [Export All], [Save All] and [Close] function similar as described in the section above. The import button is only enabled when all new scenarios have been saved. In case during the import a conflicting whatif scenario is encountered that has different settings a confirmation screen may be prompted to deal with this situation.

Module Data Sets and Module Parameters

This tab allows the user to select alternative module datasets. The general usage of this type of What-if scenario is similar to the previous types.

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Similarly, alternative Module Parameters can be selected via the Module Parameter tab. In this case the fields Select Module Parameter File and Select Module Parameter File Version must be used.

Buttons

The buttons [Import All], [Export All], [Save All] and [Close] apply in the same way as described above.

Edit Visibility button

The number of What-if Scenarios in the system can become quite large. To limit the number of visible What-if Scenarios each scenario may either be deleted or made invisible to all users.

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What-if Scenarios marked with an asterix (*) are persistent, indicating that they both can not be deleted or made invisible. The visibility can be set to expiry by selecting a number of items and then selecting an expiry time.

Import All

With [Import All] you can import what-if scenarios from file.

Export All

With [Export All] you can export what-if scenarios to file.