<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Eric,<div><br></div><div>There’s not. But you can assign all the files in your project and then pass the logical units of the ones you want to the components that need them.</div><div><br></div><div>ASSIGN FILE1 25</div><div>ASSIGN FILE2 26</div><div>ASSIGN FILE3 27</div><div><br></div><div>Equations 1</div><div>LU_Weather = 27</div><div><br></div><div>Unit 2 Type 876 Data Reader</div><div>Parameters 1</div><div>LU_ Weather</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps!</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Oct 24, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Eric Peterson via TRNSYS-users <<a href="mailto:trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org">trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am making great advances my editing a deck file to be generic my establishing user defined CONSTANTS
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<p class="MsoNormal">and then using these in the various modules that are linked in what I created with Simulations Studio.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Every more utility is obtained by then adding EQUATIONS immediately thereafter to adjust the parameters called by the modules!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now may I please ask if there is a way to have a string variable so that I can change a module’s ASSIGN reference to an assortment of desirable external files, such as weather data?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Eric Peterson, PhD, PE, RPEQ, M-ASHRAE TC4.2 Climatic Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Research Fellow in Geothermal Systems Modelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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