How to add rain barrels to your project
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A rain barrel can be added to a project as an action to improve drainage capacities. Besides that it can also help to improve the awareness of residents towards neighborhood water management. This how-to will explain how to add a rain barrel to your project and use it as an upgrade.
How to add a rain garden to your project:
- Hover over the buildings button and select Edit Function Values.
- Select standard garden from the Function Values list; if missing, click Add next to Function to include it.
- Duplicate the standard garden by selecting Duplicate.
- Adjust the name of standard garden (2) into Garden with Rain barrel by double clicking on the name.
- Adjust the function values to the desired settings.
Editor → Future Design (Ribbon tab) → Upgrade Types (Ribbon bar) → The Upgrade Type to edit (Left panel)
How to add a rain barrel as an upgrade:
- Go to the Upgrade Types ribbon and add a new Upgrade by pressing the Add button in the bottom left corner.
- A new Upgrade Type appears, modify the Upgrade Type in the right-sided panel.
- Rename the Upgrade in Rain Barrel Garden Upgrade.
- Press Add Pair in the bottom panel.
- Change the function in the bottom panel by selecting standard garden as the Input Function and Garden with Rain Barrel as the Resulting Function.
- A new Upgrade has been created.
Editor → Future Design (Ribbon tab) → Actions (Ribbon bar) → The Action Menu to edit (Left panel) → Actions tab (Right panel)
How to add a rain barrel as an action:
- Go to the actions ribbon and add a new action by pressing the Add button in the bottom left corner.
- A new action menu appears, modify the action in the right-sided panel.
- Rename the Action in Rain Barrel.
- Change the image by clicking on the Image and selecting the category_waterbasket.png as image.
- Assign the Action to the desired Stakeholder by selecting them in the Level drop-down menu.
- Select Actions in the ribbon on the right-side panel
- Select Rain Barrel Garden Upgrade in the upgrades drop-down menu.
- A new action has been created.
Notes
- The function values used for the Rain Barrel Garden are free to be selected by the user
- This rain barrel upgrade is an example; users can define their own input and output functions based on the use case.