3.1.2. Data Output

Click on the Output File icon and put one into the Work Flow canvas.
Click on the Output Variable icon and place in the Work Flow canvas as many Output Variables as we need (in this case three) (see Fig.1).

Note: keep the Ctrl button pressed if we want to put more than one Output Variable without reselecting it again from the tool bar.

Fig. 1: Output Files and Output Variables

Double click on the Output File node to show its proprieties, and rename it, see (Fig.2).

Note: It is madatory that the name of the Output File node is the same of the Output File written by our application (in this case Prostar).

Fig. 2: Output File Properties

Do the same with each Output Variable: rename them and link them to the correct Output File (link lift and drag to result.out and mom to resultm.out) , as in Fig.3.

Fig. 3: Output Variable Properties

After we have finished, the Work Flow window should look like in Fig.4.

Fig. 4: Output Files and Output Variables renamed and linked

Go back to the Output File node Properties to choose the Output File Template, as we did with the Input File (see Fig.5). Click on the Open button in the Output File properties window.
A new window will appear and we have to select a Template Output File that define the response of our model (the file where our variables will be exctracted from). Browse through the file system and search the proper Output File (at least one time we must analyze and post-process our model to have an Output File to use it as template), see Fig.5 and Fig.6).

Fig. 5: Output File Properties

Fig. 6: Output File Selectio

After we selected the proper file, the Template Output Editor will show us the template Output File.
The window is split into two parts: in the top part the Output File is edited, in the bottom part there is a list of the Output Variables connected to the Output File (see Fig.7). /P>

Fig. 7: Work Flow - Template Output Editor

To mine an Output Variables from an Output File follow this procedure:

1. click on the proper table row to select the variable to be mined
2. highlight with the mouse pointer a corresponding figure inside the output File. This mark will be the point where the parser will exctract the output value for that Output Variable.
   Note: a variable position can be either absolute (e.g. its value is in an absolute position in the file structure) or relative (e.g. its value is relative to a certain keyword inside the file)
   
3. RBM to show a pop-up menu and select Absolute Position

Fig. 8: Output Variable extraction

When we have completed the extraction of the first Output Variables from the Output File we can read the mining rule beside the Output Variable name (see Fig.9).

Fig. 9: The mining rule

Repeat the above operation for all the remaining Output Variables related to this Template Output File and finally the Template Output Editor window will look like in Fig.10.

Fig. 10: All Output Variable have been extracted

Do the same with the Output File and Output Variables related to the moment.
Look at the Summary Panel to check changes made on the Output Variables, if everythig is ok the Output Variable Summary table should look like Fig.11.

Fig. 11: Output Variable Summary table

Now we have completed the mining of Output Variables from Output Files.
The next step is to define the External Script running the Application. It reads the model from the Input File, analyzes it and writes Output Files.