Organize HVAC library by category

[macumber]

https://openstudio.uservoice.com/forums/308629-openstudio/suggestions/10473030-organize-hvac-library-by-category

Since 1.9.0, the quantity of available library objects when viewing the "HVAC System" makes it really hard to find an object. It'd be great to categorize the objects, for example following the EnergyPlus "Groups" (in the I/O documentation, or when using IDF editors)

You'd have a group for "Setpoint Managers", with all possible setpoints managers under it. One for "Fans" which all fans under it, one for Pumps, one for Condenser Equipment (Cooling Towers, Fluid Coolers, etc)

[macumber]

From @jmarrec: the E+ Idd has a \group thing which we could use as a starting point. all IDD objects between two \group statements belong to the group referenced above. this is used by the IDF Editor

[aaron-boranian]

Migrated from UserVoice

Hello:
I'm interested in this issue (good first issue)
C++ level: beginner
Thank you

[macumber]

Hi @damianCaceres that is great! The first thing to do is to get your build environment set up. Have you been able to clone the repo and build locally (see https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/wiki/Configuring-OpenStudio-Application-Build-Environments)? After that you will want to make a personal fork of this repo where you can commit your work. Let me know when you get those parts done and we'll get in touch with some tips on where to start making changes.

I've built and install successfully OpenStudioApp, develop branch alfa tag. The App opens without segfault.
To be honest, I didn't find the instructions. I make everything from scratch. Obviously I need a few weeks to know the environment and to read the wiki page ...
Thanks you. Nice day.
Ubuntu 20.04

Good morning
I've rebuilt QT5 including the ICU staff. I've selected like icu libraries the system's ones.
Later on, I've rebuilt OpenStudioApp, and again I've needed to select the path to the system's icu-libraries.
But I didn't specified the icudtl.dat file path, because:

icudtl.dat provides support for International Components for Unicode (ICU). It is the Chromium version of ICU, which is not needed if Qt WebEngine was configured to use the system ICU.

The build given me error. I've selected the icudtl included in the code folder, and OpenStudioApp build, install and open.
I remain waiting for the release of the amaizing OpenStudioApp 1.2
Thank you

[macumber]

@damianCaceres 1.2.0 should be out shortly. In the meantime, 1.2.0-rc6 is available for testing and is very similar to the final 1.2.0: https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/releases/tag/v1.2.0-rc6

I don't know if the instructions changed since you last looked but you should not have to build Qt, we use pre-built Qt binaries as described in this wiki:
https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/wiki/Configuring-OpenStudio-Application-Build-Environments#qt