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Release Notes RiverSMART 8.3
The following changes were made in RiverSMART 8.3
Delete Key Behavior
RiverSMART enables you to place text boxes on the workspace. Previously, if you edited text in a text box, pressing the Delete key deleted the entire text box, not the selected text. RiverSMART was enhanced so the Delete key behaves as expected, deleting the selected text, or the next character if no text is selected.
Diagnostic Messages When RiverSMART terminates
Distributed multiple runs can be configured to terminate the multiple runs after a specified number of traces have failed. Previously, if RiverSMART started a distributed multiple run and a failure occurred, you were not notified which traces failed and, consequently, had to search multiple log files to identify the failed traces. RiverSMART has been enhanced to notify of the specific traces that have failed, so you can go directly to the appropriate log files to identify the source of the failures.
Per-Trace Output DMIs
RiverSMART now supports per-trace Excel output DMIs during distributed multiple runs. The following changes were made to support these DMIs:
• Ability to move Excel workbooks from their configured folder (in the MRM configuration) to the RiverSMART scenario folder as configured in the Excel dataset to the scenario folder. RiverSMART was modified to add a script command that changes the workbook’s folder, and RiverWare was modified to recognize the command and configure the Excel dataset.
• File locking for the workbook to ensure that multiple RiverWare sessions do not try to write to the workbook simultaneously.
Scenario Regeneration Confirmation
When re-generating scenarios, the wording for scenarios that will have their results invalidated changed from:
“Check scenarios to re-simulate their results”
to:
“Check boxes to clear the simulation status of scenarios”
Scenario Status: Succeeded With Warnings
In previous versions, RiverWare MRM was enhanced to allow you to configure how many traces could fail before a run was terminated. When traces fail, the RiverWare and distributed MRM controller user interfaces provide an indication to the user. In RiverSMART, however, the distributed MRM controller user interface would close after a scenario simulated with no indication that traces had failed.
To remedy this, the RiverSMART scenario status “Succeeded With Warnings” was added; the scenario status icon associated with this status displays an orange hue, rather than green. Users can expand a scenario’s tree view item to identify the traces that failed.
Synchronized Versions with RiverWare
Beginning with release 8.0, RiverSMART and RiverWare release version numbers are synchronized, and RiverSMART requires the same version of RiverWare. For example, RiverSMART 8.2 requires RiverWare 8.2; the patch levels may differ.
To support this requirement, the RiverWare batch mode command “RiverSMARTVersion <major>.<minor>” was added to RiverSMART. RiverSMART adds the command to the batch script that configures the RiverWare model file for a scenario; if the RiverWare version does not match, the command fails with a meaningful error message. This eliminates the possibility of errors caused by version mismatches, which can be difficult for a user to understand.
Bug / Issue Fixes:
 
Table 1.1  Issues addressed in RiverSMART 8.3
Issue Number
Description
RW-6135
RiverSMART crashes when there are multiple model events.
RW-6423
Closing log file viewer dialog crashes.
RW-6493
Opening an MRM placeholder event crashes.
RW-6578
False positives errors could be displayed in scenario generation status.
RW-6620
Crash when clicking away from a menu.
Revised: 07/05/2022