Simulator 16 User Guide - PowerWorld

Area/Zone/Owner Filters
The Area/Zone/Owner Filters Dialog allows you to filter the information shown on the case information
displays and other dialogs by area, zone or owner. There are a several ways to open the
Area/Zone/Owner Filters Dialog.
Go to the Case Information ribbon tab, and choose Area/Zone Filters from the Case
Information ribbon group
Click on the button on the Case Information Toolbar
There are also many buttons on user interface dialogs throughout the program that invoke this
dialog as well.
For small cases, you will usually not need to use this filtering capability, but it can be very useful for
large cases. The filters display lists each area, zone and owner in the case, the number of buses in
each, the range of bus numbers contained in each, and whether or not information about that area,
zone or owner should be displayed. In order for a device to be displayed, its area, zone and owner
Shown property must be set to yes. For devices which can belong to more than one area, zone, or
owner (for instance a transmission line that connects two areas, i.e. a tie line), then the device will be
displayed if any end of the device meets the area/zone/owner filter.
You can switch between displaying the filters for the case areas, zones or owners by clicking on the
associated tab.
The area/zone/owners filters list is itself a case information display and therefore shares many of the
same local menu options and characteristics. Using the local menu, you can search for an area, zone
or owner by number or by name, copy records to and from other applications, and send the records to
a printer. You can inspect an area, zone or owner by selecting Show Dialog from the local menu,
which invokes the Area Information , Zone Information or Owner Information Dialogs. You can also
change the format and content of the filters display by selecting the Display Column/Options item from
the local menu. The records can be sorted by any of its component fields simply by clicking the
corresponding column’s heading.
The display’s only enterable field is the one entitled Shown, which may assume only the values Yes
and No. For example, if the Area/Zone/Owner Filters setting for an area is No, then any case
information display configured to enforce area/zone/owner filters will omit the area’s elements from
the resulting record set. You can specify whether a particular case information display enforces filters
using the display’s Display/Column Options Dialog.
Double-click on a cell in the Shown field to toggle its value. Use the cell handle to propagate a
particular value to multiple areas, zones or owners, or use the Toggle All Yes or Toggle All No local
menu options to set the values of all area, zone or owner records.
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