On a main screen - Meaning of Defaults??

[boleyd]

Select Root as the first task. It displays my root among others. I select it.. Then I select View Sessions and the list is filled with Default sessions including the one I want. Is there any problem just deleting those "other" default sessions? I only have One session but the display shows a series of Default Sessions. Can I delete them? I see no value in them? I assume they are each made as I tried different things debugging my session. During that process I always select the latest one by date/time.

 

[stagecoach]

If you only open the route for editing you will also get a new default session automatically every time.
They can be deleted if you don't want them.

 

[pware]

As Stagecoach states above, a new default session is automatically created whenever you open a route (not a session) for editing. This is necessary because certain properties that you might edit are stored in the session, not in the route. For example you may add an industry asset (e.g. a coal mine) that produces a product and while the industry becomes part of the route its products consumed/produced are automatically stored in the session. This allows you to set the industry to produce/consume different products at different rates in different sessions.

The same occurs with switch settings - you can have switches set to different directions in different sessions. There are many other examples.

The rule that I follow is:-

1. If you load only the route into surveyor, then only save the route and not the session.
2. If you edit any session features (e.g. products. switches) that you want saved then save the route AND the session and give the session a distinctive name. Then next time load both the route AND the session to continue editing.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

“Root”….seriously?

 

[boleyd]

Well, Dude and Yeah Man did not seem to fit. But anyhow I is gonna be ok now with them there sessions and things.
Don't engines go root root? Old habit from coding the operating system on a Univac computer. There were root routines that set flags for other routines to process. The roots were sacred since so many other programs relied on them.

Example - AT&T gave Westinghouse a number of their first video phones to test in Pittsburgh and New York. I had to Interface their "stuff to our stuff". The actual programs could then use familiar coding. One memorable application our people did was to keep a small reservation system for the Companies private aircraft fleet. Also, all done on a private line network. Long before the Internet.

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