ParaQ:Requirements

Overview

This page serves as the formal gathering place for discussions, documentation, and doodling related to ParaQ requirements. It's the final resting place for documents that may appear other places in the site (for example, on the page for a meeting, if the document was presented at that meeting).

Sandia's Scripting Requirements

• Use Case: Scripting over a set of files Having created a visualization in ParaView, a user runs a batch application with that visualization, applying it to a set of input files. This is done to take advantage of the work done in creating the visualization. Scripting makes it easy for the user to change small things in the visualization in some automated manner. It is much easier to change things in a script than to open each file by hand and perform the same operation.

• Use Case: Changing a name or value Having created a visualization in ParaView, a user runs a batch application with that visualization, changing only a variable name, file output name, or value. This allows the user to quickly modify a script as opposed to reiterating GUI commands with only slight changes in values or names.