Manipulating configuration paramaters

[Mr. Josip Basic 0]

Hi!

 

- When writing input file template for the software connection, is it possible to have an expression within <entry> tag:

<entry>X - Y</entry> or something like <entry>X.at(2)</entry> if X was defined as FDoubleSeries would be really handy.

 

- How can a variable in a configuration be initialized with other configuration variable in its expression field?

 

Best regards,

Josip

[Ben Zeitz 1]

Hi Josip,

 

No sorry, this is not possible the way you suggest.

You cannot create references from one entry to another in a configuration or directly in an input file.

 

Instead you can create all references you need outside of the configuration.

 

1. If you like to work with a series you could create a Series Parameter and set the desired double values to it.

In your configuration you have to create entries for each value you like to get written into the input file.

To access the values of the series set an expression like this to your entries: mySeriesParamter.getValue().at(0)

 

2. If you like to get one entry initialized with the value of another entry you simply can set the same expression to both of them.

e.g.

myParameterX = 1.5

entry1 = myParameterX

entry2 = myParameterX + 0.5

 

So, you still need to create a parameter for each value you like to use as an expression. The advantage of this approach is that you can work with references even between different configurations.

 

Cheers

Ben

[Mr. Josip Basic 0]

Ben,

thanks for the clarification.

I'll just use feature definition for the export then... It'll avoid complications e.g. with variable size series.

Regards