How to add rain barrels to your project

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 neighbourhood water management. This how-to will explain how to add a rain barrel to your project and use it as an upgrade.

Editor → Current Situation (Ribbon tab) → Buildings (Ribbon bar)

How to add a rain barrel garden to your project:

1. Hoover over the buildings button and select Edit Function Values.
2. Select the standard garden in the Function Values list (if the standard garden is not in the list yet, you need to add it by pressing the Add button next to Function and select the standard garden).
3. Duplicate the standard garden by selecting Duplicate.
4. Adjust the name of standard garden (2) into Garden with Rain barrel by double clicking on the name.
5. Adjust the function values to the desired settings.

The Rain Barrel Upgrade

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.:

1. Go to the Upgrade Types ribbon and add a new Upgrade by pressing the Add button in the bottom left corner.
2. A new Upgrade Type appears, modify the Upgrade Type in the right-sided panel.
3. Rename the Upgrade in Rain Barrel Garden Upgrade.
4. Press Add Pair in the bottom panel.
5. Change the function in the bottom panel by selecting standard garden as the Input Function and Garden with Rain Barrel as the Resulting Function.
6. 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.:

1. Go to the actions ribbon and add a new action by pressing the Add button in the bottom left corner.
2. A new action menu appears, modify the action in the right-sided panel.
3. Rename the Action in Rain Barrel, change the image by selecting the category_waterbasket.png as image and select the desired stakeholders.
4. Select Actions in the ribbon on the right-sided panel and select Rain Barrel Garden Upgrade in the upgrades drop-down menu.
5. A new action has been created.

Notes

• It's important to emphasize that the rain barrel upgrade can be used for many other Buildings like houses or sheds, in this How-To the rain barrel has been used as an upgrade for the standard garden. By simply changing the Building type in the first step this can be adjusted easily.
• The function values used for the Rain Barrel Garden are free to be selected by the user

See also

• How to create Functions
• How to add Functions for editing