GasLoadImport

The GasLoadImport element is the parent node for historical and forecast gas load input data. Other elements nested between the opening and closing GasLoadImport tags define the properties of the input data, such as the time range, units, energy content, meter and meter group information, flow data, flow record, and data values.

The GasLoadImport element has two required attributes:

type defines the type of gas load input data
sparse_times indicates whether to import sparsely populated hourly data without applying defined filling rules.

Data categories and the associated data item types must be defined in the ELF device configuration prior to import of data records in a historical or forecast gas load data input file, so that they can be recognized and the UDCs associated with data item types can be retrieved.

If a data category or data item type is specified in an input file that the device configuration does not know about, then that particular data record will not be imported.

Properties

Property	Description
Case Sensitive	Yes
Required	Yes
Number of Instances Allowed	1
Requires End Tag	Yes
Parent Element	CygNetELFImport
Child Elements	DatasetStartHour DatasetEndHour DefaultValueUnits DefaultEnergyContent DefaultEnergyContentUnits Meters
Attributes	type sparse_times

Attributes

Attribute	Required	Description	Value Options
type	Yes	The type of gas load input data.	String (in quotes). The value of the type enumeration attribute is "HISTORICAL" or "FORECAST_PRIMARY" or "FORECAST_SECONDARY."
sparse_times	No	Specifies whether to import sparsely populated hourly data without applying filling rules. Note: This attribute essentially disables all defined filling rules for the import.	String (in quotes). The value of the sparse_times attribute is "true" or "false." "true" indicates that the import data contains sparsely populated hourly data. The default value is "false", which indicates that the data does not contain sparsely populated hourly data. If the sparse_times attribute is not included, "false" is assumed.

Attribute

Required

Description

Value Options

type

Yes

The type of gas load input data.

String (in quotes). The value of the type enumeration attribute is "HISTORICAL" or "FORECAST_PRIMARY" or "FORECAST_SECONDARY."

sparse_times

Specifies whether to import sparsely populated hourly data without applying filling rules.

Note:
This attribute essentially disables all defined filling rules for the import.

String (in quotes). The value of the sparse_times attribute is "true" or "false."

"true" indicates that the import data contains sparsely populated hourly data.
The default value is "false", which indicates that the data does not contain sparsely populated hourly data.
If the sparse_times attribute is not included, "false" is assumed.