Data management

Each project (.eco) has a companion DSS file named "Project (name) – ECO.dss" that is created by the software.  Time series imported to the project are copied into this project DSS file and the location identifiers for that data are redirected from the source DSS files to the project DSS file.  Creation of this project DSS file makes projects portable because all information for a project is thereby contained in "Project.eco" and its companion "Project – ECO.dss".  To relocate or package a copy of the HEC-RPT project, simply move or duplicate those two files.

Flow recommendations can be exported to DSS (as time series of average daily flows) via the "Project – Export Recommendations to DSS" menu option.  Recommendations are exported for the following combinations:

          /system/state/flow//1day/flow component/

          /system/all states/flow//1day/flow component/

          /system/state/flow//1day/all flow components/

          /system/all states/flow//1day/all flow components/

By exporting the whole recommendation (all states – all components) and each of the parts, HEC-RPT stages future modeling and trade-off analyses that investigate the feasibility of implementing all or part of the flow recommendations (Figures 28 and 29).

Figure 28.  Menu option and interface for exporting flow recommendations to DSS.

Figure 29.  Catalog of data exported for the Unified System.