This import module can import data from a fews master controller. The following limitations apply:
- It can only handle external historical and external forecasting data
- It does not use the timestep as a key. As such the behavior is undefined if the remote database has the same series (location/parameter) with different timesteps.
- The relativeviewPeriod element in the general section is required although the schema (see below) indicates it is optional.
The schema extension of the import module is shown below:
An example configuration file is attached to this page. This file imports one timeseries from the Midlands databse, the figure below shows this file in XML-SPY grid format:
