A bug related to OS:Schedule:File and OS:External:File with OpenStudio App

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Issue is with OpenStudio

NatLabRockies/OpenStudio#4046

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Let’s keep this open to see if there is an app specific component. We may want to leave issues open here until we verify that the os fix resolved the app issue

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1. Running a workflow with the measure generates output csvs, output csvs end up in generated files directory, idf files point to schedules in temp directory (fine for simulation)
2. Running measure in apply now generates the csvs, does not properly bring back csvs to generated files or files directory, idf exported has blank file path

1 above works correctly, 2 is a bug

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This is the line that is supposed to make case 2 work: https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/blob/develop/src/openstudio_lib/ApplyMeasureNowDialog.cpp#L128

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It looks like translate to idf is what is putting the schedule in the correct location during the simulation workflow:

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/4d136973122860b11dcfc976fcaa0268223290d7/src/energyplus/ForwardTranslator/ForwardTranslateScheduleFixedInterval.cpp#L94

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We need to repoint new external file objects to files directory in apply measure now.

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Added example measure to issue files

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I think I know what the issue is, the CLI is inserting a new path generated_files in front of the WorkingFiles dir. We should copy content of generated_files back to the generated_files in the model dir in addition to the WorkingFiles which is getting copied back to the files dir