[Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions

Fri Mar 3 15:41:20 PST 2017

Stop asking me hard questions! It’s a Friday!

If I had to guess I would likely credit David Reddy & the rest of crew at 360 Analytics… but honestly I can’t recall (could have been you, Bill?).

More constructively and to your point however, this optional argument however is what the doe2 reference manual is generally referring to when it lists “i" or “i1, i2” in its syntax / explanations of the BDL functions.  Example:
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These inputs can become very important if you are trying to set up user defaults for, say, the 2nd or 3rd plug load entries.  Study the doe2 defaults expressions in that area for further reference material.  That’s how the 3rd inputs know to be “n/a” before you entered at least the 1st and 2nd entries for a  given field.

~Nick

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From: Bishop, Bill [mailto:bbishop at pathfinder-ea.com]
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Subject: RE: [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions

Nick,
Where did you find that little gem of BDL?
~Bill

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Subject: RE: [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions

Appending to this, while ("C-ACTIVITY-DESC") returns the first 4 characters by default, if you ever need to further distinguish inputs within spaces sharing the same/similar activity descriptors, you can also reference the 2nd set of 4 characters (or the 3rd set, or the 4th set…).

To do this, append the optional argument “,#” wherever you’d normally specify “C-ACTIVITY-DESC.”

To build on the running example, say you had 2 tenants to distinguish in a building with “Retail” space, but they had two different occupancy densities.  You could handle that by first adding to their descriptors, such as follows:
Retail_–_Best Buy
Retail_–_Home Depot

The first 4 characters for each case are the same:  “RETA” (list position 0).  The second set of 4 is “IL_–“ (list position 1).  The third set is finally distinguishable:  “_BES” and “_HOM” (list position 2).

From here you could either insert an if/then statement for the “Reta” case, or just nest another switch statement.  Added some formatting for clarity, but highlighted the new addition:

   AREA/PERSON      =
{if(#SV(#L("ZONE-TYPE"))==2) then no_def else
  if(#RV(#L("PEOPLE-SCHEDULE"))!=0) then unused else
  switch (#L("C-ACTIVITY-DESC"))
    case "Reta": switch (#L("C-ACTIVITY-DESC",2))
                   case “_Bes” : 67
                   case “_Hom” : 67*2
                   default : 500
                 endswitch
    case "Lobb": 150
    case "Clas": 100
    default: 500
  endswitch
  endif
endif}

~Nick

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  Regional Energy Engineering Manager
  Energy and Sustainability Services
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Suite 204
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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions

Mike,
You can start with the expression below. Paste only the text between the brackets if you are pasting within the interface. If pasting into the input file, this would go after “SET-DEFAULT FOR SPACE”. Like Chris said, the case statement names should be four characters or less. However, they are not case sensitive, so upper/lower case doesn’t matter.
~Bill

   AREA/PERSON      =
{if(#SV(#L("ZONE-TYPE"))==2) then no_def else
if(#RV(#L("PEOPLE-SCHEDULE"))!=0) then unused else
switch (#L("C-ACTIVITY-DESC"))
case "Reta": 67
case "Lobb": 150
case "Clas": 100
default: 500
endswitch
endif
endif}

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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions

Note, only the first 4 characters of the C-ACTIVITY-DESC field are recognized in user defined expressions. Therefore, if your UDF uses “RETAIL” as the test, it may fail because only “RETA” is used.

Other than that, I suggest reviewing the BDLDFT.TXT file in the eQUEST 3-65 Data folder. It is full of example default expressions.

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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 12:32 PM
To: equest-users
Subject: [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions

Hi eQUEST Users,
I'm trying to create default user expressions in an effort to auto-populate certain fields in my models.
I want to reference the activity description (C-ACTIVITY-DESC) have it automatically fill in fields such as Area/Person.
So for this example, I'm trying to make all spaces that have Activity Description of "RETAIL" to be populated with a Area/Person value of 67.
I've tried using the "Switch" function and if-then statements but haven't been able to get it to work.
Any assistance is appreciated.
Thank you,
Mike Campbell
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