The following section is a short example where a new attribute “number of occupants” is added to the Feature report and the Post-Processor.

Below are the steps for this process:

• Clone the urbanopt-reporting-gem repository to your local machine.
• Open the schema file and append the new property number_of_occupants to the properties inside the program component.

{
  "Program": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "number_of_occupants": {
        "type": "number"
      }
    }
  }
}

• go to the program class in the default_reports and modify as follows:

1) Add number_of_occupants to the attribute accessor.

attr_accessor :site_area,......., :number_of_occupants

2) Initialize an instance variable number_of_occupants by adding it to the initialize method.

def initialize(hash = {})
......
  @number_of_occupants = hash[:number_of_occupants]
......
end

3) Add a default value for number_of_occupants in the defaults method:

def defaults
  hash = {}
  ......
  hash[:number_of_occupants] = nil
  return hash
end

4) Add number_of_occupants to the to_hash method.

def to_hash
  result = {}
  ......
  result[:number_of_occupants] = @number_of_occupants if @number_of_occupants
  return result
end

5) Finally, add number_of_occupants to the add_program method that is used by the Post-Processor to aggregate the program attributes values.

def add_program(other)
  @number_of_occupants = add_values(@number_of_occupants, other.number_of_occupants)
end

• Next, go to the reporting Measure and request the number of occupants from the OpenStudio model and store it in the feature_report. number_of_occupants should be implemented in the run method, after the initialization of feature_report:

def run(runner, user_arguments)
  super(runner, user_arguments)
  ....
  # number of occupants. Note: 'building' is an object retrieved from openstudio model
  num_occupants = building.numberOfPeople
  feature_report.program.number_of_occupants = num_occupants

• Run the new example project using the modified Scenario gem repository
  • Adjust the allow_local in the Gemfile located in your project’s directory, following instructions to allow the use of local gems.
  • This will enable using the local files in the urbanopt-scenario-gem repo that you have been editing