EXNAME - include TRT_NAME if available

[chporter]

For experiments with multiple treatments (e.g., HSC), all EXNAMEs are the same. It's very difficult to reference ACMO data.

Proposed solution: Add a column for TRT_NAME in the ACMO_meta.dat and ACMO.csv files. This column would be blank for survey-type data, but would be extremely useful for field experiments, such as HSC.

[frostbytten]

Would it make more sense to concatenate the TRT_NAME to the experiment if it exists, bypassing the need to have an unnecessary field (especially for models which don't handle treatments)

[chporter]

Yes, that would work. But the concatenated string is no longer EXNAME, so it would need another label, like EX_TRT_NAME.

[frostbytten]

Technically, I thought we were supposed to make it that way because of models that didn't support multiple treatments. EXNAME should be EX+TRT_NAME, only the DSSAT translator at this point should be splitting.

On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Cheryl Porter [email protected] wrote:

Yes, that would work. But the concatenated string is no longer EXNAME, so it would need another label, like EX_TRT_NAME.

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[frostbytten]

Actually, it's EXNAME__TRT_NO right now (@MengZhang is checking on that at the moment)

On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Cheryl Porter [email protected] wrote:

Yes, that would work. But the concatenated string is no longer EXNAME, so it would need another label, like EX_TRT_NAME.

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