After you have added a number of Resource Stores and elements that interact with those Stores to your model, it is often useful to be able to summarize the locations and users of the various Resources that exist in your model.
GoldSim provides several ways to do this. Within the Resources Manager (accessed via Model|Resources… or by pressing F8), a Locations button is provided:
This button lists all of the Resource Stores in the model, along with all of the elements that interact with them:
In this example, the model has 3 Resources defined. Resource1 has a Global and a Local Store; Resource2 has Local Store only; Resource3 has a Global Store only. Resource3 does not have any elements that interact with it.
Selecting an element in the tree that uses a Resource and pressing Go to element jumps to that element. The Collapse All button collapses the tree to the top level (the Resources). (The button then becomes Expand All). Pressing Ctrl-A also toggles between expanding and collapsing the tree.
The Resources tab for a Container that has Local Stores also has a Locations button:
This button lists all of the Resource Stores in the Container, along with all of the elements that interact with them:
Selecting an element in the tree that uses a Resource and pressing Go to element jumps to that element. The Collapse All button collapses the tree to the top level (the Resource Stores). (The button then becomes Expand All). Pressing Ctrl-A also toggles between expanding and collapsing the tree.
In the dialog for defining a Resource Store (either globally or locally), there is a Users button:
This button lists all of the users (elements) that interact with that particular Resource Store:
In this example, this Resource Store (Resource1) has one element that interacts with it (Event_B).