Top level menus

File menu

Menu item	Description
New ESDL	Start with a new empty energy system. Remove all current ESDL files loaded.
Load ESDL	Load an ESDL file from your local file system. Remove all current ESDL files loaded.
Import ESDL	Import an ESDL file from your local file system. This ESDL will be added to the list of loaded ESDLs in the layer control section (7).
Save ESDL	Save the currently selected ESDL to your local file system.
Load from ESDL drive	Load or import an ESDL file from the ESDL drive (ESDL cloud storage).
Save to ESDL drive	Save an ESDL to the ESDL drive.

Note

When you press ‘Save ESDL’ in the ESDL MapEditor, the behaviour is determined by your local browser settings. Most browsers by default save files in the Downloads folder (on Windows at least). In your browser settings you can specify to ask the user for a file location

Edit menu

Menu item	Description
ESDL table editor	Opens the ESDL table editor, allows to edit attributes of multiple assets of same type
ESDL browser	Opens the ESDL browser, a low level ESDL editor (advised for advanced users only)
Energy carriers	Allows to add, edit, remove carrier information
Sectors	Allows to add sectors
Environmental profiles	Allows to add all kind of environmental profiles (outside temperature, pressure, soil temperature, …)
Shapefile converter
Search assets	Allows to search for assets based on ID, name and let map zoom into this assets

Services menu

Menu item	Description
Energy system statistics
External ESDL services
Get boundary information
ESSIM simulation
Load animation
ESDL compare
ESDL merge

View menu

Menu item	Description
Refresh view	Force the MapEditor UI to refresh
WMS layers	Allows to visualize WMS layers in the MapEditor
Show/hide animation toolbar	Show or hide the animation toolbar - for controlling the load animation
Show/hide asset draw toolbar	Show or hide the asset draw toolbar - for quickly adding certain assets
Show/hide services toolbar	Show or hide the services toolbar - for quickly calling certain services
Show/hide KPIs	Show or hide KPI window
Clear simulation results	Removes all kind of results from the UI (simulation results, validator feedback
Settings	Settings for the MapEditor and its plugins

Help menu

Menu item	Description
Documentation	Opens this documentation website
About	Shows the version of the ESDL MapEditor and some links for installing it