Resource End Date Column
Column Type = Text
The Resource End Date allows the user to assign the ending (retirement) date of a resource. After this date, the resource will not be used in calculations for dispatch and value. The resource is operational through the last hour of the retirement date.
In zonal studies, the model will ignore resources not needed in the simulation up front to improve run times. Any resource which has an End Date more than a month before the study start date will not be included in the study and will not be reported.
NOTE: All date columns in an input database and project Change Set will automatically be converted to column type Text. This change was necessary to solve a problem Microsoft has built into their core XML data handling routines that save and retrieve date variables in time zone referenced values. This gave rise to the troublesome circumstance that when a user would save a Change Set or XML dataset with date columns in the table, if the same dataset were later opened in another time zone, the day portion of date variables would have changed. This created a significant issue for transfers of project databases to EPIS for our clients who are not on Pacific Time. The date conversion to text solves this problem and makes dates independent of time zone. The automatic column type conversion will be logged on the Status screen when an unconverted input database is opened in this version. Date fields currently being used in linked input tables in Excel will need to be manually converted to text.
Resource End Date Column