Name

Description

Valid values

Default value

/len

Execute all forecasts with this length in hours.

48

/starthour

From which hour should we start. Either the hour of the day or an offset from current hour depending on the /starttype: given.

Ex: /starthour:-5 /starttype:now
Start the forecast at 5 hours before now.

1

/startdate

The offset from today on which to start the forecast.

Ex: /startdate:-1
Start the forecast yesterday

0

/starttype

How to interpret /starthour.

“Normal” means hour of the day
“Now” means relative the current hour.

Normal, Now

Normal

/resolution

The resolution of the forecast in minutes.

60

/selection

A comma-separated list of templates from which the series to be forecasted is selected. If missing, all series where Automatic is checked (batch=1 in database)

<none>

/querytype

The query type.
Added for future use, do not use yet.

Regular, Historical, Adjusted, Alternative, NormalWeather, WeatherForecast, Climate

Regular

/loadtype

How to interpret the load data file, with corresponding *.chg file or not.

El, Chg

El

/loadquantity

In case of exporting load forecasts having other than hourly resolution, this parameter switches between energy and power.

Energy means that one quarter will have 1/4 of the hourly value.   

Power, Energy

Energy

/exporttype

The export type to use in the export. Can be a list of values separated with @

Init2-Inti5 are the alternative export definitions. NB! The first definition does NOT have a 1 appended.

Init, Excel, ExcelTemplate, Xml, Init2, Init3, Inti4, Init5

Init

/forecasttype

The weather forecast type to use when calculating the load forecast.

Telegram, LatestEditable, Normal, Observed

Telegram

/ignoreobs

Do not use weather observations to replace weather forecast values.

This is intended for batch generation of forecasts from the past.

True, false

False

/savedatastatus

Flag whether to save results of the data status check, i.e. the same pressing the save button in the dialog when running AFS.

The file is saved in APPMAINDIR\tmp and named datastatus2012-08-22@14-40-10.txt where the date and time indicates when it was written.

True, False

False

/software

Flag indicating the type of software to run and export data from. Can be either Aiolos Forecast Studio or Power Flow Application.

AFS, PFA

AFS

/exportmodelposition

Flag that indicates whether forecast based on the default model should be exported (value 1) or based on any of the configured alternative models (values 2-8)

Integer ranging from 1 to 8

1

/savemodelpositions

Flag that contains a list of which forecasts based on alternative models should be saved for later evaluations in conjunction with the export

List of integers from 1 to 8 in a list separated by “@”

Empty list

/writeprogfile

Flag that indicates whether a .prog-file should be written in conjunction with the export for later evaluations

true,false

true