Version History

247.1.3 [23Dec21]

ALL VERSIONS

• [Bugfix] Export functionality from pivot grids was not working on some machines.

247 [15Dec21]

ALL VERSIONS

• QA_Check log file will open automatically after the run if it reports “FATAL ERROR” or “INVALID PARAMETER”.

• Option to Compact Database under Tools menu.

• Batch runs are launched in the order in which they appear in the list on Run Manager.

• [Bugfix] DD files are written for one case at a time when Max Runs < 2.

• When Restart Option is active in Run Manager, Region and period selections are dumped in a file <casename>_input_data.JSON.

ADVANCED VERSION

• Reporting: WAttribute col in TS_Defs table can be used to compute dynamic weighted averages. See example in Veda Adv Demo.

244 [04Nov21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Menu layout enhanced for convenience in Results module.

243 [25Oct21]

ALL VERSIONS

• [Bugfix] User-defined sets were not available for processing if only BY_Trans was synchronized.

• Several UI enhancements.

ADVANCED VERSION

• Reporting: timeslice_map (like process_map and commodity_map) can be used create timeslice aggregations. For example, months and hours can be different dimensions.

242 [27Sep21]

ALL VERSIONS

• [BugFix] related to lower case in Super-region name; introduced in version 241.

241 [25Sep21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Any Base/SubRES import triggers Demand processing.

• Runmanager: Scenario group refresh button appears on reordering cases (it used to appear only when on change of selections).

• [Bugfix] Group delete in Case Manager.

• Possible to import VD files without VDE/S/T (via Tools menu).

• Control on sort order of views in Results and Reports.

• Added search in all dropdown lists.

• “Help” tab added in Veda menu.

• User-defined CG will be usable in the commodity columns of Veda tables.

• Process and commodity filters can be used in table tags. For example, ~TFM_INS: CSET_SET=DEM.

• TSLVL and SIDE forced to be upper case.

• UC_ATTR displayed under Items Detail of UC; also on mouseover (along with description) in Browse.

ACADEMIC/STANDARD/ADVANCED

• BrowseForm: multiple pivot tabs can be opened, like in Results. Use the “Add Pivot” button.

ADVANCED VERSION

• Several enhancements in Reports processing.

239 [23Aug21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Reports functionality will be available under all license types till 31 Dec 21.

• If a run fails for any reason, then the contents of command window will be displayed in a text file automatically.

• Leading and trailing spaces will be removed each cell at the time of reading from Excel.

• Excel export format improved.

• Reporting of duplicate declarations improved (Information >> Model >> Manage Duplicates)

238 [07Aug21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Items detail view uses colors to indicate set membership and an icon to identify the PCG

• Mouseover in pivot grids displays numbers with full precision

ADVANCED VERSION

• Reports section has been added in Veda documentation

• TS_Defs tag supports fields “show_me” and “discard” to give more control over aggregations

237 [23Jul21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Debug: Batch sync had stopped working in the previous version

ADVANCED VERSION

• Major efficiency improvement in reports processing

• Additional dimensions don’t need the source dimensions in “group by” anymore

236 [17Jul21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Debug: it was not possible to drag a case to the first position in Run Manager

• Debug: unselecting SubRES was throwing an error during DD writing in some cases

• Debug: Excel export from pivot grid was rounding numbers to two decimals

• MaxRuns will apply to parametric scenarios as well

• Localhost version uses port 65001 - will be easier to work on machines that have a non-Veda PostgreSQL installation

• Date modified (instead of created) shown on VD file import form

• GAMS engine credentials can be declared under user options

ADVANCED VERSION

• perCapita and perGDP reporting

234 [26Jun21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Several UI updates

• A button on the top of pivot grids (in the center) to make pivot grids full screen on all forms where they appear

• Absolute negative values can be declared prefixed with “~” in UPD/MIG tables.

  • Use case: ACT_BND FX can have ~-1 in the Interpolation options MIG table in SysSettings

• Commodities selected for Browse will be searched in all commodity and commodity_group fields

ADVANCED VERSION

• Report browser enhancements

233 [07Jun21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Several UI updates; smoother loading of Navigator

• Smart filter box color changed to dull orange - throughout the application

• Excel export formatting improvement

• GDXDiff imports files when Diff is requested and works much faster

  • No need to import GDX files via Tools menu

• Added support for the following TIMES attributes: ACT_FLO, CM_GHGMAP, NCAP_BPME, NCAP_CDME, NCAP_CEH, NCAP_CLAG, NCAP_ISPCT, RCAP_BLK

ADVANCED VERSION

• Report creation process smoother

231 [17Apr21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Several UI updates on Start page and run mananger

• Bulk CSV export faster

• Debug: GAMS instructions were not being written to RUN and DD files

• More layout changes are being saved in Appdata folder

• Item Details in context menu along with ExRes

• Parametric scenarios not imported in batch sync

• Application reopens the modules that were open at the time of closing

• Any GDX file can be used in reference section (only those produced on the current machine were usable earlier)

• Tools menu - option added to open the folder with application error logs

ADVANCED VERSION

• Major update in default layout of Reports

230 [31Mar21]

ALL VERSIONS

• In pivot grids, elements are displayed for dimensions that are in the aggregated section, and have single items.

• Batch SYNC option available on Start page

• Backup and Restore state options added in Model menu

• Default layout settings enhanced (further) for pivot grids in all modules

227 [12Mar21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Default layout settings enhanced for pivot grids in all modules

• Layouts can be saved with names in Browse

225 [05Mar21]

ALL VERSIONS

• Automatic import of data GDX discontinued

• Dbl-click on data values inserted by Veda shows appropriate messages

• Veda checks for a healthy version of Excel on the machine

• Windows alert sound while reading Excel files suppressed

• Default layout improved in all pivot grids

• Layout can be saved with names in Browse

• Item details pivot layout is saved, like ExRES

219 [20Feb21]

ALL VERSIONS

• License and maintenance status reflect on the main form

• Application version displayed on bottom right of the screen (not on the title of main form anymore)

• localhost version should work on some machines where it did not

• Results: View names QC for characters that are not permissible as Excel sheet names

• Results: Close all button added

• Results: views can be exported to CSV without loading into pivot grids

• several enhancements on GDX reference forms (Run manager)

• Debug: “too many clients” error when writing a large number of DD files (DD writing more efficient)

• Debug: sub-totals were appearing after some pivoting operations

ACADEMIC/STANDARD/ADVANCED

• Scenario groups (from Run manager) available to filter scenarios in Browse (like process/commodity sets)

213 [25Jan21]

• Debug: ExRes layout

• Run manager: Filter added for GDX file lists

• Major efficiency improvement in Results refresh

• Right-click option to see Item details from Items lists, set browser, and set editor.

• Commgrp handling for NCAP_AFC

• Added a few process sub-types

• Default TS for STG_CHRG = ANNUAL

• Added a few missing attributes and set TS_OFF

205 [06Jan21]

• Bugfix: user-defined sets, as set specification for other set, were not working in the new sets editor functionality.

• Bugfix: BRATIO under properties in Run manager was an integer field; it is now text so that it can be left blank.

• Browse enhancement: “Select in list” option on right-click in pivot grid, to select items in the filter lists.

• ExRes: layout and filters are saved.

• Pop-ups from the auxiliary EXEs, after run completion, have been suppressed.

202 [25Dec20]

• Veda.FrontEnd.exe has been renamed as Veda2.0.exe

• Sets Browser: Processes and Commodities on different tabs

• Batch export: Results.xlsx file has a time stamp and opens on creation

• Pivot Grids enhancement: Page field dimensions where items are being aggregated are higlighted with an orange line

• Subtotals option available in pivot grids

• New functionality Information - Model - Manage duplicates: shows duplicate declarations of processes/commodities

• Tools menu has a new item Sets, with browser and editor as sub-menus

• Sets editor: a major new functionality that allows interactive creation/editing/copying of sets. Definitions in Excel file are updated seamlessly.

197 [12Dec20]

• Attribute RFCmd_bot added to introduce GAMS commands at the bottom of RUN files

• Element descriptions on mouseover in Results pivot grids

196 [06Dec20]

• Bugfix: Information - Model - tag details had duplication

• RFCmd* and SFCmd* attributes can introduce GAMS code in RUN and DD files

• Run manager: New menu item “Reorder scenarios” that makes it easier to manage scenario groups

• Start page: Right click on a folder to remove it from “New” section

• Information - TIMES attributes updated to the current version of documentation

194 [02Dec20]

• Bugfix: using ENDYEAR with the new ~Milestoneyears tag was producing a “0” in list of periods

• Bugfix: resolved duplication in commodity-only attributes from SubRES

• Results - update Excel

• All SET COM entries appear in BASE.DD

• Adding windows info in error log

• Results will automatically read Sets definition file (on launch) if it has been modified

• Veda_SnT to Excel migration.xlsm handles possible duplication in Setrules table of Veda_SnT.MDB

• NSV candidates reporting improved; Open File button added

• Arrow keys supported in PivotGrid

189 [21Nov20]

• Bugfix: Processes no longer required to be in .VDS files

• Bugfix: TS filtering (year2=0/1) was not able to ignore records that came from BASE

• Dummy UC variables not created for non-binding constraints

• Browse: Proc/comm units are displayed along with description on mouseover

• Results: chart window visibility saved with view layout

• Attribute master: Timeseries cell is green for attributes that are interpolated/extrapolated by default

• Results: Cancel button to interrupt processing

• No limit on length of model folder name

• Disabled default loading of DemoS_012 model

• Units handling in Results [See ~UnitConversion table on Defaults sheet in SysSettings - DemoS models]

182 [07Nov20]

• Bugfix: bilateral trade processes with reg1=reg2 were getting deleted.

• Bugfix: Parametric scenario selection was ignored while editing multiple cases.

• Bugfix: RunManager layout changes were problematic; can restore default settings now.

• GamsWrk files (*.VD, .LST, .GDX and QACheck) can be browsed and deleted using Model -> Manage disc space -> Text files, or the Text icon on Start page.

• Check introduced to trap GAMS path with spaces.

• Run manager now reports key solution metrics after runs finish.

178 [28Oct20]

• Added validations for Gams source folder selected for cases.

• ExRes works from pivot grid in Results.

• Sets file appears on Navigator and shows its Sync status.

• SysSettings, BY-Tans and Sets files will be synced if inConsistent, without selecting any other file.

• ~MileStoneYears table supports a new column “type”, which can be used to declare an “EndYear” for each period specification. The milestone years don’t need any value in this column.

• More tags, like FI_Process/Comm included in Information-Model tags.

• Seed values for UPD,MIG,FILL tags are based on a two-level sorting: If Scenario B looks for seed values that exist in SubRES S, and scenarios A and C, then the value from scenario A will be selected.

173 [20Oct20]

• New feature: Tools - Sync AppData folder, to import/export results table definitions, scenario groups and cases from other users.

• New feature: Direct specification of MILESTONEYEARS via new tags ~MileStoneYears and ~EndYear (optional), in SysSettings.

172 [16Oct20]

• Bugfix: Results - batch export Excel file was locked in some cases.

• Bugfix: Sync froze if SysSettings did not generate any records.

• GAMS output had stopped appearing in CMD window for GAMS version 32+.

• Handled the case where Sets col is blank in FI_Process/Comm tables. Defaults PRE/NRG apply.

• UPD, MIG and FILL tags can handle complex operands now (*-1, *0,25, for example)

168 [10Oct20]

• Bugfix: all but BY templates turned “not imported” after renaming scenario files.

• Licensing included.

• Veda_SnT to Excel migration.xlsm updated.

• Start page now includes Recent and New models, and Veda News (pulled from the Internet).

• Dummy commodities for UCs can be used in CSET_CN col of TFM tables.

• GDX and VD manual import - Default folder location from Model settings.

• TFM_DINS tables support UC_N col.

• TS_filter col supported in TFM_INS-TS.

• Multiple result views are exported on different sheets of a single Excel file.

• No empty cells in Row header section of Excel export.

161 [24Sep20]

• Bugfix: Process column was not showing the right values in AttributeMaster.

• “Add new” button added in “Model” menu.

• Delete for saved layouts of Results added on UserOptions form.

159 [19Sep20]

• Results: Tool tip on scenario list: Date | VD file path | Model | User | Study.

• Results: Unsaved tabs named with time stamp.

• Bugfix: GAMS root settings were not being saved in some cases.

• UI refinements in Run Manager, Navigator and Attributes master.

• Known bug: Add dimension combo on Browse gets duplicate entries.

155 [13Sep20]

• Combos for scenario groups on run manager, and on case definition form, now work as a filter box.

• Multiple cases can be edited together.

• Close button added on Sync feedback form.

• Dependency check form debugged.

• Attribute master revamped.

154 [08Sep20]

• bugfix: Trade processes with multiple commodity types were getting multiple PCGs. Now they are assigned in the following priority order: DEM - MAT - NRG - ENV - FIN.

• Performance improvement in AVA-C processing.

• Sets browser introduced under Tools menu.

• Model tags details enhanced (under Information - Model menu).

152 [05Sep20]

• bugfix: TFM_AVA-C had introduced case-sensitivity in commodities.

• batch export (CSV and Excel) for Results

• All layout changes in Results, Navigator and Run manager are retained, across Veda updates as well.

148 [29Aug20]

• TFM_AVA-C supported

• User-defined CG recognized as valid commodity names by Veda (no implications on DD files)

• UI enhancement in Results

• Indication when sets selected in results tables have common elements

• <Model>Appdatafolder has priority over the Resource folder for solver options files

145 [25Aug20]

• bugfix: * as the first character in PSET_PN was ignoring rows in TFM_PSET; it applies only to SetName col.

• Several UI improvements

• Configuration of the dimension lists in Results section is saved

143 over 139 [22Aug20]

• Several UI changes in Run manager and Results

• Icon on “New” button in navigator

• gams check disabled for now

• QC on length of case names

• GAMS option RESLIM added under properties on Run manager

• Toggle name/desc in pivot grid (process, commodity, attribute, uc; proc/comm sets pending)

• backup xls files before conversion to xlsx/m

• on double click in items list opens the definition in Excel

• Veda tag information added for set definition tags