Hard to see errors generated in ModelToIdf job in App

[macumber]

You have to go to the tree, right click the job and do show errors and warnings. Seems like these should get printed to the screen as well

[jmarrec]

Original image is irrelevant to the current design of OS 2.x. But I'd still like in 2.x to be able to easily see these warnings.

[evanweaver]

Confirm by making model which has known warnings in the forward translation process, and seeing if they are output on the run tab. @macumber any idea if this is still valid?

[macumber]

The new approach would be for the worflow gem to echo out errors and warnings from idf translation, @evanweaver do you have an osm that reproduces an error? Can you attach that to this issue?

[evanweaver]

@macumber I do not, but one would be appreciated.

[jmarrec]

IIUC @evanweaver previous post was a directive for someone (me probably) to make a test model. I can whip that up.

[jmarrec]

Here's one OSM that only has a plantLoop, and to which I added an AvailabilityManagerHighTemperatureTurnOff without a sensor node, which generates an error:

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/develop/openstudiocore/src/energyplus/ForwardTranslator/ForwardTranslateAvailabilityManagerHighTemperatureTurnOff.cpp#L57

Warnings when FT using the bindings (1 = Error, 0 = Warn)

[11] OpenStudio-Test(main)> w = ft.translateModel(m)
[openstudio.energyplus.ForwardTranslator] <1> Object of type 'OS:AvailabilityManager:HighTemperatureTurnOff' and named 'Availability Manager High Temperature Turn Off 1' doesn't have a 'Sensor Node' (required)
[utilities.idf.WorkspaceObject] <0> Object of type 'Schedule:Constant' and named 'Always On Discrete', points to an object named OnOff from field 1, but that object cannot be located.
[utilities.idf.WorkspaceObject] <0> Object of type 'Schedule:Constant' and named 'Always Off Discrete', points to an object named OnOff 1 from field 1, but that object cannot be located.
[utilities.idf.WorkspaceObject] <0> Object of type 'Schedule:Constant' and named 'Always On Continuous', points to an object named Fractional from field 1, but that object cannot be located.

The OSM model:

DHWLoopOnly.txt

OS 2.4.0 run tab:

[jmarrec]

I'm not sure how many warnings can be generated on a large(r) model, but if it's a big number, perhaps we should only echo errors on this tab, but also echo a summary:

"During forward translation, X errors and Y warnings were generated, please refer to #{model_folder}/stdout for detailed information"

[evanweaver]

Thanks @jmarrec

[jmarrec]

This requires modification to the openstudio-workflow-gem to capture stdout.

[jmarrec]

Same underlying issue as NREL/OpenStudio#2941

[macumber]

Looks like this is now available in OS