RENO Resources

RENO resources are objects that serve to store or generate values used in flowcharts. They cannot, however, be placed directly into flowcharts; instead, they are referenced or called by the blocks within the flowcharts. Any RENO resource is available to be called by any flowchart within the project.

Like all other types of resources, RENO resources can be created and edited via the Resource Manager. In addition, when the resource is updated with new information, the change is reflected automatically in all flowcharts in which it is used. There are several types of RENO resources:

Note that variables and models may be used by other ReliaSoft applications. The remaining types are exclusive to RENO.

While the values of some resources (variables and tables) may change during the simulation process, once simulation has been completed, each resource contains only the original value(s) that you entered in its properties window (unless it is a variable set to never reset). If you wish to keep the value(s) of the resource used during simulation, you must use a result storage block within the flowchart to store the value(s). This means that the underlying value of the resource is unchanged by simulation, and therefore simulation of one flowchart will not affect other flowcharts that use the resource.

What's Changed? In previous versions of the software, RENO resources were known as definitions.

Naming RENO Resources

When you create a RENO resources, it is important to name it in a meaningful way, so that it is easy to understand what the resource does and how it is intended to be used. While a default name is supplied upon creation, it is strongly recommended that you choose a more descriptive name.

Names for RENO resources must meet the following requirements:

Must be unique within the project.
Must be text; cannot be a number or anything that evaluates to a number, such as Pi or RENO internal functions.
Cannot start with a number.
Cannot contain spaces or any of the following characters:
\ / : * ? " < > | ‘ ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) ;

For models and variables, these naming requirements are enforced only if you have selected the Enforce RENO compatibility check box in the Application Setup window. You cannot use models and variables in RENO flowcharts if their names are non-compliant.

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