OpenStudio Analysis Spreadsheet Outputs

asked 2016-07-05 15:56:54 -0600

MatthewSteen

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updated 2017-06-04 10:14:53 -0600

__AmirRoth__

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I've successfully run several analyses using the spreadsheet. However, I have not been able to include specific outputs other than the ones from the template.xlsx file. The documentation lacks a detailed description for setting up this sheet so I was hoping to fill in some blanks. Here's what I've done so far:

1) Modified the open_studio_results reporting measure to include a runner.registerValue statement in the run method. The SQL query has been tested and returns the correct value.

query = "SELECT Value FROM TabularDataWithStrings WHERE ReportName = 'Economics Results Summary Report' AND ReportForString = 'Entire Facility' AND TableName = 'Annual Cost' AND RowName = 'Cost' AND ColumnName = 'Total'"
value = sqlFile.execAndReturnFirstDouble(query).get
runner.registerValue("annual_cost_total", value)

2) Included it in the measures folder.

3) On the Outputs sheet I've included the following in the Measure/Variable Unique Name column (D).

open_studio_results.annual_cost_total

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Did you also include the measure in the Variables worksheet?

shorowit ( 2016-07-05 16:17:02 -0600 )edit

I know this will sound wonky, but try putting that into a different reporting measure. Then make sure you are using measure.variable_name in the spreadsheet output tab. The exact name needed can be found by looking at the .json file for a datapoint.

BrianLBall ( 2016-07-06 10:27:33 -0600 )edit

actually, try 'standard_reports.annual_cost_total' in the spreadsheet. There usually isnt a open_studio_results measure that is avail in the workflow. I think those values get put into standard_reports. Any how, all the measures available in the workflow (as well as the arguments or values that are available) can be found in the data_points/{uuid}.json file

BrianLBall ( 2016-07-06 11:25:57 -0600 )edit

@shorowit - thanks for the suggestion. I tried and no luck.

@BrianLBall - looking at the JSON, it's actually standard_report_legacy.total_life_cycle_cost that i'm after, which incidentally looks like it's listed incorrectly in the example projects as standard_report.total_life_cycle_cost.

I should add that my goal is to download the CSV Results from the sims. It's unclear to me whether the Outputs sheet allows for user-defined outputs or simply those that are built-in and listed in the JSON file.

MatthewSteen ( 2016-07-06 20:50:07 -0600 )edit

if you put the variable in the output tab and set the export column to true, the value should end up in the database and then be available on csv or rdataframe export

BrianLBall ( 2016-07-07 10:18:15 -0600 )edit

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answered 2017-05-16 16:22:29 -0600

Chienman
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It's my understanding that the outputs your specify in the spreadsheet are pushed to the mongo container of the OS-server, not the SQL file? I may not be correct here. What can tell you is I've noticed that by logging into the Openstudio-server instance and getting inside of the container where mongo is deployed, you can start mongo and query it to see the specific outputs you've commanded. But I have not been able to figure out how to get inside of the container at run-time using the ruby bindings to export. I've thought that there must be some bash command you can run, but I haven't figured out how to get it to work.

So what I do is just build my own custom script as a ruby measure and scrape out everything I can find and push this to a new container somewhere else in the cloud so it can be optimized to handle throughput, a separate microservice just to store my results. I can get sneaky and also push specific outputs requested in the spreadsheet as arguments to this ruby measure, if that makes sense to you.