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I was running through the practice test for Gold and think there may be an issue with the simulator CSV. I believe it's missing the HOA tag for Packaging 3 (the others have this tag, but #3 doesn't, so the UDT has an error when you create it for this instance/line.
Reporting for Motors - I couldn't figure this one out. I've done reports several times, but nothing like this. Could get the list of motors with HOA value of 1 using a script datasource, and can get historical data the same way for this limited list of motors, but couldn't find a way to script nested datasets. Maybe I'm going about it all wrong, but since the timeseries chart won't let you set a dynamic data key, I couldn't get it to work.
Reporting for Orders - This calls for generating a report for the last 7 days or any time range, but the problem is that the report it wants you to run is for incomplete orders which don't have a date set, so there's no way to filter unless you add a column for when the order was created.
I'll have to give this a shot, but for a gold certification practice test, it shouldn't be required to do that much of a deep dive. My guess is that the intent is to create a database with the tags listed (I believe the old gold test had a table with all the motors listed in it) that you can then do a nested query with, but in my opinion, that's not truly dynamic since adding a motor to the tags also requires adding a motor to the database. But maybe that is the intent (to update the database with new motors as they're added?)
Thanks Michael. My colleagues or I will look into these and update the text as appropriate. From what I recall...
I agree that the practice motor report requires some digging, but our goal is typically only ever to have you look at the UM, I will do some more research about how well it is documented. FWIW the actual test doesn't have precisely this task, the reporting tasks it has are more easy to find in the UM from our testing. And yes the idea is that new tags would be dynamically available, creating the instance would include history being on to start logging.
And yes good catch there is some text that should be removed ", and to use the last 7 days of data. " is not meant to be there it contradicts the goal of that report which is is meant to pull all incomplete orders. (This fictional org isn't great with their data they never saw the value in having start dates on their orders...)
I've gone ahead and started the official gold test re-certification, and my initial reaction to the gwbk file was....why is it so large. It's over 60MB and it looks like there's a lot of extra files in the user-lib/pylib folder like numpy and other things that are making the backup extra bloated. Is this extra stuff in there from testing or used for grading it automatically, or could these files be made smaller and lighter? (I have large projects with ~100k tags and many more screens that only use ~15-20MB of space).
Just an observation, but just thought I'd give my opinion on it.
Good to know, the GWBK is fairly standard. For comparison the previous Gold test troubleshooting backup provided was ~5-6 MB more than that. There was nothing done to increase or decrease its size yet, but we can look into cleaning it up.
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