<div dir="ltr">Thank you Bill, Jeremy, and Chris for the responses!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Bishop, Bill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bbishop@pathfinder-ea.com" target="_blank">bbishop@pathfinder-ea.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Mike,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">~Bill<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> AREA/PERSON =
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">{if(#SV(#L("ZONE-TYPE"))==2) then no_def else<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">if(#RV(#L("PEOPLE-SCHEDULE"))!<wbr>=0) then unused else<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">switch (#L("C-ACTIVITY-DESC"))<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">case "Reta": 67<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">case "Lobb": 150<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">case "Clas": 100<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">default: 500<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">endif}<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Equest-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@<wbr>lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Jones via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 03, 2017 12:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michael Campbell <<a href="mailto:mcamp1206@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcamp1206@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Other than that, I suggest reviewing the BDLDFT.TXT file in the eQUEST 3-65 Data folder. It is full of example default expressions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>To:</b> equest-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] User-Defined Default Expressions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm trying to create default user expressions in an effort to auto-populate certain fields in my models.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I want to reference the activity description (C-ACTIVITY-DESC) have it automatically fill in fields such as Area/Person.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've tried using the "Switch" function and if-then statements but haven't been able to get it to work.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Any assistance is appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p>
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