Possible bug in report-defitinions expression

CesarAero

Dear support,

I am trying to create an expression report definition which uses inputs from 2 other reports. When using the GUI this works just fine:

However, I cannot get its reference using session.settings.solution.report_definitions.expression.get(name='delta') and it looks like it doesn't exist. I get a None type object

And I use pyfluent to create an zero expression using for instance:
session.settings.solution.report_definitions.expression.create(name='delta-2')

or using

session.settings.solution.report_definitions.expression['test-2'] = {'average_over': 1, 'create_report_file': False, 'create_report_plot': False, 'define': ' ', 'expr_value': 0.0, 'list_valid_report_names': '', 'name': 'test-2', 'output_parameter': False}

It creates the expression but it is set as invalid and I cannot access to it to modify it to understand it's structure as I usually do:

Could I get some guidance on how to set this expression : {max-temp-outlet}-{ave-temp-outlet} which uses the outputs from the reports 'max-temp-outlet' and 'ave-temp-outlet'?

Vishal M

Hello @CesarAero

The following commands can be used to create a expression based report definition

solver.settings.solution.report_definitions.single_valued_expression.create(name = "delta")

solver.settings.solution.report_definitions.single_valued_expression["delta"].definition = "{max}-{ave}"

You can use the dictionary approach to get the code for the required usage. as you have done but use the following to get the basic structure of the dictionary to modify

solver.settings.solution.report_definitions.single_valued_expression()

You were not able to get the reference because the actual API object is single_valued_expression and not expression.

I hope this helps.