[TRNSYS-users] Question on adding more than nine external files in TRNSYS

[thornton at tess-inc.com]

On 2023-04-28 01:02, Shengteng Li via TRNSYS-users wrote:

> Specifically, I have noticed that when I am trying to add external
> files to my component, there are only nine blank spaces provided to
> add details of these files. However, I need to add more than nine
> external files to my component, and I am not sure how to do this.

In the future, please post your questions to the new TRNSYS forum.  We 
are migrating all of the TRNSYS support to that platform as it has a 
host of advantages compared to this mailing list.  But to answer your 
question, the Studio only allows you to have 9 external files in a 
proforma and there's no work-around for that limitation that I know of.  
But there isn't a corresponding limitation in TRNSYS.  So you can build 
your proforma without using the external files tab and then just assign 
the files in the Control Cards.  For example set Parameter 1 to 52 and 
then set the following command:

ASSIGN InsertFileNameHere.dat   52

That's all that the Studio is doing when it processes the project at 
runtime.

Jeff


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