Scenario Manager

The Scenario Manager lets you create, edit, and manage scenarios. There is one built-in default scenario-the Base scenario. If you wish, you only have to use this one scenario. However, you can save yourself time by creating additional scenarios that reference the alternatives needed to perform and recall the results of each of your calculations. There is no limit to the number of scenarios that you can create.

Note: When you delete a scenario, you are not losing data records because scenarios never actually hold calculation data records (alternatives do). The alternatives and data records referenced by that scenario exist until you explicitly delete them. By accessing the Alternatives Manager, you can delete the referenced alternatives and data records.

The Scenario Manager consists of a hierarchical tree view and a toolbar.

The tree view displays all of the scenarios in the model. If the Property Editor is open, highlighting a scenario in the list causes the alternatives that make up the scenario appear there. If the Property Editor is not open, you can display the alternatives and scenario information by highlighting the desired scenario and clicking the Properties button in the Scenario Manager.

The toolbar contains the following controls:

New Scenario: Opens a submenu containing the following commands:
- Child Scenario—Lets you create a new Child scenario from the currently highlighted Base scenario.
- Base Scenario—Lets you create a new Base scenario.
- New Pre/Post-Development Scenarios—Opens the Create Pre/Post-Development Scenarios dialog (see Create New Pre/Post-Development Scenarios).
- New Storm Event Scenarios - Opens the new storm event scenarios wizard dialog. See New Storm Event Scenarios.
Delete: Removes the currently selected scenario.
Rename: Lets you rename the currently selected scenario.
Compute Scenario: Opens a submenu containing the following commands:
- Scenario—Lets you calculate the currently highlighted scenario.
- Hierarchy—Lets you calculate the entire currently highlighted branch (the Base scenario and all Child scenarios currently associated with it).
- Children—Lets you calculate all of the Child scenarios associated with the currently highlighted scenario.
- Batch Run—Lets you run a user-defined group of scenarios at once.
Make Current: Causes the currently selected scenario to become the active one, and to be displayed in the drawing pane.
Scenario Comparison: Opens the Scenario Comparison tool, allowing you to compare the differences between scenarios.
Expand All: Expands all of the branches in the hierarchy displayed in the list pane.
Collapse All: Collapses all of the branches in the hierarchy displayed in the list pane.
Search Bentley Communities: Performs a search of Bentley Communities for content relevant to this feature.
Help: Displays online help for the Scenarios Manager.