Several safe guards have been implemented to prevent inconsistent results. Most actions that create reports or change the modeling state will now pause and resume the scheduler in order to avoid conflicts.
A new report has been added to the Scenario folder. This report records the event time line of the simulation, in terms of the changes to the model and the value of the objective function. This report can help to verify the sequence of simulation controls that led to the development of the solution.
A new report has been added to the Target folder. The report is a summary of the shortages between targets and the values that were achieved. This report lists all active targets over all periods. As requested by Jay Greenfield.
The account explorer has been updated to show the connections between all accounts and attributes. Previously it had only shown the links between attributes and summary accounts.
The tool that selected groups has been split out from the account explorer and now can be selected from the Tools menu.
The previous account explorer pane that showed the list of attributes has been removed. You can get this list from the 'protoaccounts.csv' file that is created by the Matrix Builder, or from the column headings in the block attribute table.
The Account Explorer can create a 'dot' language file that shows the relationships between attributes and accounts. The 'dot' language has been developed by AT&T, and can be processed using the GraphViz software. The resulting PNG or PDF will contains a flow chart depicting the accumulation of attribute values into accounts.
Minor changes and fixes:
The Woodstock translator has been adjusted so that it can now correctly handle *OPERABLE sections when they are not immediately following the *ACTION sections that they apply to.
Under rare circumstances, multiple destination models would occasionally get confused and report incorrect distances and costs. This situation is corrected.
The penalty weight functions for the patch area, frequency and shape sub-targets have been adjusted so that they are similar to how weights are calculated for the size target.
Eliminated another error that would occur when displaying the column heading in a table.
The block table was incorrectly calculating product attribute values that had a negative future age. This has been corrected.
There is a new 'OnceOnly' option that suppresses repetition error messages. This is useful for batch mode application in conjunction with the setGuiMode method, so that the console does not fill up with repetitive errors. See the API documentation for Diagnostic for further information.
The report writer should be about three times faster at saving scenarios. The previous version would recalculate the data values for each report component (html. csv, png). The new version only calculates the data values once for all three components.