The document summarizes the new features and developments in Delft-FEWS 2019.02. It provides an overview of the 156 new features added, including a new look and feel, ability to create custom dashboards, new calculation functions, improved importing and exporting, and viewing and analyzing capabilities. It also outlines the outlook for 2020, with planned features like archive search and download, extended web services, and removal of old code.

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Delft-FEWS new developments
Marcel Ververs, Gerben Boot – Delft-FEWS Productmanagement

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Overview…
• Introduction…
• With 2019.02 I can…
• Outlook 2020 (and beyond)…

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Introduction…
• Roadmaps implemented…
• 2019.02 characteristics and
statistics…
• Release planning…

5. Roadmaps reviewed…
• Benefits…
• Major improvements implemented
• Simplification…
• Up-to-date software…
• Knowledge sharing…
• Learning points…
• Took (much) more time…
• Community contributions…
• Migration paths…
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2019.02
156 new features
Release date: 16th December 2019
107 testing bugs repaired (so far)
40 components: one or more new features
Database performance grid data
2 new displays
20 different clients/projects
10 developers
80 new icons designed
Internal: 1st of December 2019

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With 2019.02, I can…
experience…
export…
select…
view…
calculate…
import… share…
show…
analyze…
include…
manage…
change…
visualize… create… modify…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• A new look & feel
• One consistent look across
platforms
• Windows10 look (as close as
possible)
• Overridable using ColorSchemes
• Much easier to maintain (in code!)
experience…
• New icons
• All displays & tool windows
now have a default icon
• Overridable by configuration
(e.g. in Explorer.xml)

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With 2019.02, I can…
• my own dashboards…
• Pre-defined…
• Private…
• A dashboard: a collection of grid
plots shown together…
show…

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Re-arranging…
Renaming and removing…
Synchronization option: map extent across frames
Synchronization option: times across frames
Permission aware…
<predefinedDashboards>
<dashboard name=“Preconfigured Dashboard #1">
<permission>Forecast</permission>
</dashboard>
</predefinedDashboards>

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With 2019.02, I can…
• The time (in hours) before or
after the next peak for every
timestep
• Purpose: time to a high tide or
time to landfall of a cyclone…
calculate…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Output using a multiple linear
regression formula
• Purpose: calculate the risk of an
occurrence based on different
input variables…
calculate…
Risk of pollution
Y = constant + factor1 * value1 + factor2 * value2 + factor3 * value3 …

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With 2019.02, I can…
• my workflows from a list now
• Provides overview…
• Saves a click…
select…
Workflow grouping using <workflowNode>…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• PI.XML files temporary without
configuration…
• Share and inspect (PI.XML) files
from other applications,
institutes…
• Future work: extend formats to
all supported ‘interactive’
formats…
import…

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Temporary filter…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• My schematic status display
panels on the web
• Timeslider…
• Drop-down lists for groups and
panels…
share…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• General adapter: Rating curves
with comments and option to
export ‘onlyLastAvailable’ (GA)
• PI web service: NetCDF export
including zipping
export…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• the number of decimals in my
labels
change…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Scatterplot for 2 locations with
different parameters
include…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Ensemble members sub plots in
the Spatial thumbnails
view…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Ensemble members sub plots in
the Spatial thumbnails
• Grid statistics on the fly for a
polygon
view…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Ensemble members sub plots in
the Spatial thumbnails
• Grid statistics on the fly for a
polygon
• Run times of workflows in the
admin interface
view…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• All changes via the admin
interface and operator client in
an audit trail
analyze…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• my workflow mappings much
easier
manage…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Thresholds in the Forecast tree
visualize…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Product Information in a panel
create…

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With 2019.02, I can…
• Spatially…
modify…

29. Outlook 2020…
• Features planned…
• Archive: Search & download (Reference Web Application)
• Web services: extended SVG (Schematic Status Display)
• Web services: extended WMS
• Master controller / Admin Interface
• Model adapters…
• Delft-FEWS 2025 – annual roadmap 2020 (e.g. design Web Operator Client, Scenario management)
• Functionalities removed in the coming years…
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2020.01 2020.02 2021.01 2021.02
PRTF display
Trend display
Lookup display
2nd map display (zoom)
Long. Profile display
Old synchronization code
Old archiving module
TransformationSets (prep)
Embedded PI service (prep)
Embedded PI service
(removal)
‘What-if’ scenarios (only if
alternative is available)
TransformationSets
InterpolationSets
LookUpSets
PerformanceIndicatorSets

30. back 
close 
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Thank you for your attention!
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