EBSILON^®Professional / Model-Info functions

Name

Purpose

Arguments

Return value

Example

getAuthor

Queries the name of the author specified in the short form Info.

-

STRING

getAuthor;

getCalcProfileName

Queries the name of the active profile, which is used at the start of a calculation.

-

STRING

getCalcProfileName;

getComputerName

Queries the name of your computer.

-

STRING

getComputerName;

getFileName

Queries the name of the active file, either with or without the path.

1: BOOLEAN: (optional):
true: complete path
false: file name without path (default)

2. BOOLEAN: (optional):
true: path without file name

STRING

getFileName;
getFileName (true);
getFileName (true, true);

returns the flow direction to a component pin

getInputFileName

Queries the name of the active input file, either with or without the path.

1: BOOLEAN: (optional):
true: complete path
false: file name without path (default)

STRING

getInputFileName;
getInputFileName (true);

getModelSerialisation

Queries the serialization number (build-number) if the active file. This can be older than the current build-number of the application.

-

INTEGER: Build-number

getModelSerialisation;

getModelTime

Queries the current model time (timestamp of the current measurement values (only EPOS))

1: STRING: (optional) with the desired time format (see Section Time Format). Default is ”%H:%M:%S”

STRING

getModelTime;

getModelTimeForArchiveId

Queries the current time of a specific EposArchive archive pool

1: INTEGER: Archive-ID

2: STRING: (optional) with the desired time format (see Section Time Format). Default is ”%H:%M:%S”

STRING

getModelVersion

Queries the EBSILON-version, with which the model was created

-

STRING, e.g. "3.12"

getModelVersion;

getOnlineState

Checks the system state (only EPOS)

-

STRING: ”online” or ”offline”

getOnlineState;

getParentProfileName

Queries the name of the profile, which is used as the parent profile, when a new sub-profile is created.

-

STRING

getParentProfileName;

getProfileName

Returns the name for a specified Profile-ID.

1: INTEGER: ID of the searched profile

STRING: Name of the searched profile

str:=getProfileName (0);

getRevisionNumber

Returns the revision number of the model, which is shown in the summary in case of document properties.

-

INTEGER: searched revision number

n:=getRevisionNumber;

getTime

Queries the current system time.

1: STRING: (optional) with the  requested Time Format (see also chapter Time Formats). Default is
”%H:%M:%S”

2: STRING: (optional)
Regional and Language Option
(see Chapter on Time formats) 

STRING

getTime;
getTime ("%d.%m.%Y");

getTitle

Queries the title of the model (this is the file name without the path and without the extension ”.ebs”). See also
”getUserTitle”

-

STRING

getTitle;

getTotalEditingSeconds

Returns the complete processing time for the model in seconds.

-

INTEGER

n:=getTotalEditingSeconds;

getTotalEditingTime

Returns the complete processing time for the model as string.

1: STRING: (optional) with the desired time format (see Section Time Format). Default is ”%D days %H:%M:%S”

STRING

str:=getTotalEditingTime;

getUserName

Queries the user name (the name used for the registration). See also ”getAuthor”.

-

STRING

getUserName;

getUserTitle

Queries the title of the model (this is the title specified in the short form Info). See also ”getTitle”

-

STRING

getUserTitle

getVersion

Queries the EBSILON-version, with which one is currently working

-

STRING, e.g. "3.33"

getVersion