Open RDmitchell opened 1 year ago
And because the ESPM fields come in as extra data if they are not "remapped", I don't think changing their display name will help
I verified that changing the display names didn't fix the problem, because these are extra data fields with those names
and same with State
Here is some possible text to add to the Step1 mapping tab
BETTER Analysis Mapping A BETTER analysis requires that both "City" and "State" fields be defined properly in the mapped fields. BETTER also requires that "Property Type" be defined as a field.
For example, in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, those fields may be defined as
In that case, you should remap them to:
After reimporting my data 3 times, with the proper mapping, it does appear that I am getting some BETTER results.
So we definitely need to figure out how to improve the user experience.
And reimporting the way I did wouldn't really be practical if already had a lot of imported data. In my case I had a clean slate, but that is not generally the case. Users could have a ton of data already imported with the wrong mapping that they couldn't really reimport very easily.
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Instance: dev1 SHA: 5f7d20c31 Org: LBL Test 401
In order to perform a BETTER analysis, fields must be mapped properly.
For example, BETTER wants the following fields:
The default fields in ESPM are
If the user doesn't know to change these fields, then the BETTER analysis will not run.
It gives these errors
The problem is that the user has to then reimport their data with different field mappings in order to get BETTER to run.
I am wondering if there is something we can do, possibly at the time of Mapping, to help the user understand how to map their fields if they want to do a BETTER analysis?
It seems like the first thing to do would be to add some help text in the "Step 1: Map Your Data" section
In general, we need to give users more information about how to properly map their data, so I guess we should start here.
Maybe there are some more "aggressive" ways to handle this, but for now, I think we should at least add more documentation.