Global parameters

A number of global settings and parameters are described here.

Fields

Field Type Description
name normalizedString Model name.
Default is null.
description string Free format description.
current dateTime The ‘now’ date for the plan. It distinguishes the past from the future.
If left unspecified the system date and time are used.
logfile normalizedString File name where all output will be sent to.
If left unspecified, the output appears on the standard output.
If the filename starts with ‘+’ an existing logfile with the same name is being appended to, instead of being overwritten.

Example XML structures

  • Global initialization section
 <plan>
    <name>Demo model</name>
    <description>A demo model demonstrating frePPLe</description>
    <current>2007-01-01T00:00:00</current>
    <logfile>frepple.log</logfile>
 </plan>

Example Python code

  • Global initialization section
    frepple.settings.name = "Plan name"
    frepple.settings.description = "Plan description" 
    frepple.settings.current = datetime.datetime(2007,1,1)
    frepple.settings.logfile = "frepple.log"