Is there an easy way to temporarily turn off parts of the scenario?

Question

My aim is to temporarily turn off some of the Text Sinks for a specific batch run. My motive is that I want to save processing time and disk space. My wider aim is to easily switch not only between different text sinks but also parameter files, data loaders, etc.

A few things I've tried:

• manually put the xml-files linked to the text sinks in a different folder --> this creates an error message (that possibly can be ignored?) and does not serve my wider aim of having different charts/data loaders/displays/etc.
• create a completely new scenario-tree by copying the .rs folder and creating a new Run Configuration for that .rs folder --> if I want to change the parameters in all the scenarios at once, then I need to do it manually
• try to create a new scenario.xml file (i.e., scenario2.xml) in the hope this would turn up as an alternative in the scenario tree --> nothing turned up in the GUI

Thus: Is there another easy way to temporarily turn off parts of the scenario?

Answer 1

What we've done in the past is create different scenarios for each type of run (your second option). Regarding the parameters in the scenario folders, you could potentially run a script to copy the version you want to all the scenario folders so you don't have to manually adjust each one.