The whatif-templates based setup introduced in release 2020.02 is designed with the following wishes in mind:
- WhatIf's should be intuitive to work with
- WhatIf should be easy to create, manipulate and manage
- Whatif results should be easy accessible
- WhatIf's should be comparable, both on the input side as on the output side
To meet those wishes, whatif's are made explicitly visible and accessible via the IFD Forecast tree, while whatIf management is entirely controlled via the WhatIf Editor.
In the IFD-configuration one can specify whether an IFD-segment node is associated with a whatif-template.
If the segment node does not allow a whatif to be created, If the segment node allows the creation of a whatif-instance, | |
After pressing the Create button, a whatif-instance | |
After pressing the Apply button, the new whatif-instance is created As you can see, when this whatif-node is selected, the Create button The Apply button is still available to apply any adjustments to the Once specified, a Delete button is activated to allow deletion of the whatif. | |
When pressing the Copy button, the settings of teh selected whatif-instance | |
By pressing the Run button in the IFD-task tree, the workflow associated with The icon status of the segement node will reflect the status of the last run. Whatif icons can have various backgrounds:
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If a seg