TechnicalReferenceManualforGaBi6GaBi’sobjectorientatedsoftwaredesigndefinesthesystemandcharacterizesitsappearance.Objectorientationoriginatedasaninterdisciplinaryfieldfrominformaticsandpsychologyandisbasedonthewayhumansthink.Modularstructuresandahighdegreeofnetworkingarecharacteristicforobject-orientedthinking.Youwillencountertheterms'GaBiobject'and'GaBiobjectclass'frequentlywhenworkingwiththeGaBisystem.GaBiobjectsencapsulateassociateddataandfunctions(calledmethodsinconnectionwithobjectorientation).ThedifferenttypesofGaBiobjectsarecalledobjectclasses.Wedifferentiatebetween11objectclasses:Balances,Plans,Processes,Flows,Quantities,MeasuringUnits,Users,Projects,DataQualityIndicators(DQIs),Weightings(Normalization,Evaluation)andGlobalParameters.SomeimportantinnovationsofGaBithroughouttheyearsaresummarizedbelow:GlobalParameters:Newobjecttypeusedtomanageglobalparameters.Here,youcancreateparametersthatapplytotheentiredatabase.DifferentpartsofyourGaBimodelscanrefertoglobalparametersandcanbevariedcentrally.PlanParameters:GaBi6plansmayuseparameters.Thisincreasestheoptionsforflexiblemodelsthatcanbeadaptedeasilywiththelocalsettingofavailableparameters.ParameterInterconnections:Parametersofdifferentplanprocesses(calledprocessinstances)canbelinkedinGaBi6.Inconnectionwithplanparameters,thismayalsobeusedtomodelinterconnectionsacrossplanhierarchies.CentralizedParameterExplorer:ParametersofamodelcanbemanagedcentrallywithinGaBi6.TheparameterexplorerisalsogreatlysuitedtoexamineGaBimodelsacrossseverallayersofnestedplans.Atree-likeviewallowsforfastnavigationwithinaGaBimodel.Interconnectionsarethusclearlyillustratedacrossdifferentplanlevels.LifeCycleCosting(LCC):GaBi6offersanimprovedfunctionofcollectinglifecyclecostdata.Costinformationisassignedtoflowsandcanbechangedfromwithinprocesses.ThisalsoincludesadditionalGaBibalanceevaluationoptions.LifeCycleWorkingEnvironment(LCWE):FunctionstocollectandevaluatehumanworktimesandaspectsofqualityacrossacompletelifecyclearenewGaBi6functions.InformationpertainingtoLCWEisinputontheprocesslevel.ImprovedBalances:TheevaluationofmodeledlifecyclesisoneofthemostimprovedGaBi6areas.InadditiontothebasicimprovementofLCCandLCWEaspects,therearealsonumerousnewdetails:Suchascategoryfilter,balanceview,weakpointanalysis,etc.GaBiAnalyst:GaBi6featurestheanalysistoolGaBiAnalyst,offeringfourbasictypesofanalyses:scenarioanalysis,parametervariation,sensitivityanalysis,andtheMonteCarloanalysis.Thebatchmodeallowsfortheautomaticconsecutivecalculationofseveralanalyses.IncorporationofGaBii-report:StartingwithGaBi5,thisfeature,allowinguserstocreateinteractivereportsbasedonalteringparameters,comesstandardinthesoftware.1.1basicinformationGaBi6isanobject-orientedsoftwaresystem.TheGaBisystemusesobjecttypestosaveandmanagedataintheGaBiDBManager.Adistinctionismadebetweenthefollowingbasicobjecttypes:Balances:BalancescanbeusedtoviewtheresultsofaGaBimodel.Balancescanbeevaluatedinavarietyofdifferentways.Plans:Planscanbeusedtogeneratelifecyclemodelsintheformofflowcharts.Here,so-calledprocessinstancesandsub-plansarelinkedwithoneanother.Processes:Processesaremodelsofastepwithinalifecycle.GaBiprocessescancorrespondwithactualprocessesorwithblackboxmodulesofaprocesschain,whichinrealityconsistsofseveralprocesses.Flows:FlowsarealsofrequentlyreferredtoaselementaryflowswhenusedaspartoftheLCAterminology.Thisusuallydescribesmaterials,emissionsortypesofenergybutcanalsomodelmoreabstractobjectsexchangedbetweenprocesses.Quantities:Propertiesofflowswithbehaviorproportionaltothemass(orthereferencequantityasamoregeneralvalue)arecalledquantitiesintheGaBisystem.Here,youcanmodeltechnicalmaterialproperties(e.g.undercalorificvalue)butalsoimpacts(e.g.GWP).Units:TheGaBisystemsupportsseveralmeasuringunits(e.g.kg,g,t,etc.).Conversionfactors(e.g.fromgtokg=factor1000)arestoredinunitobjects.User:Databaseaccessrequiresloggingonwithausernameandtheproperpassword.Thisdataisstoredinuserobjects.Contacts:Detailedcontactinformation,accordingtotheILCD,canbemanagedintheGaBidatabase.Processes,flows,andreferences,citationscanbelinkedtocontacts.Projects:GaBiprojectscanbedocumentedaccordingtoISOstandards.Thisisdonewithprojects.Alistofusedobjectscanalsobestoredinaproject.QualityIndicators:So-calledDQIs(DataQualityIndicators)areusedbytheGaBisystemtodocumentdataquality.Interpretation:GaBi6offerstwotypesofinterpretation:NormalizationandWeighting.Bothareusedinbalancingobjects.GlobalParameters:Here,youcancreateglobalparametersthatapplytotheentiredatabase.DifferentpartsofyourGaBimodelscanrefertoglobalparametersandcanbevariedcentrally.Reference,Citation:Referencesandcitations,accordingtotheILCD,canbemanagedintheGabidatabase.ReferencesandCitationscanbelinkedtoprocessandflowdocumentation.Externalfilesasreports,officedocumentsorpicturescanbelinkedtothereferencesandcitations.1.2GaBiDBManager(数据库管理器)TheGaBiDBManagerisaclearlystructureduserinterfacelinkingwiththedatabase.ThestructureandfunctionalityoftheGaBiDBManageraresimilartotheMicrosoftTMmanagementtool,WindowsExplorer.AGaBidatabaseopene