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OpenSolver for Google Sheets 2.3.1

Hello everyone,

We are pleased to announce a new release of OpenSolver for Google Sheets. This fixes bugs in the GLPK solver and NEOS-Cbc solver options which made them unavailable. These engines should now be working and available.

Errors which stopped the GLPK solver from running were related to local variables in scriptlets not being defined before Html template objects ‘glpkWorkerJs’ and ‘glpkRunnerJs’ were evaluated and ran these scriptlets. Errors such as “ReferenceError: gmplModel not defined” should now go away since local copies of these variables are initialised inside these scriptlets.

As of January 8, 2021, NEOS requires that an email address be submitted with every job. The NEOS-Cbc bug was related to this – originally we did not include a user email address in the xml file sent to the NEOS server.

Since NEOS now requires that each job contain an email address, we include the user’s email address in the xml file. This email address is only sent to NEOS when the model is being solved and only if the user selects NEOS-Cbc as the solver engine.

We have updated our privacy policy and information about OpenSolver for Google Sheets to reflect these changes.

As always, we welcome your feedback. Please comment below if it works ok, or if you encounter issues, or if you have any questions regarding the new release. Thanks!

OpenSolver 2.9.4 Beta Release

Hello everyone,

We’ve released OpenSolver 2.9.4 for beta testing! You can download this new version of OpenSolver from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensolver/files/.

Below are the release notes that cover the changes made in this new version of OpenSolver:

V2.9.4 – 2021-01-15

  • Extended support for special characters in sheet names
  • Removed support for Satalia Solver Engine since Satalia no longer offers an online service
  • Added fix for NEOS email validation
  • Added support for value-seeking models with no constraints

V2.9.3 – 2020-03-01

  • Added support for using Gurobi 9.0
  • Added a temp fix for running consecutive operations on Excel64bit

As always, we welcome your feedback. Please comment below if it works ok, or if you encounter issues, or if you have any questions regarding the new release. Thanks!

OpenSolver for Google Sheets working for new users

Hello everyone,

We have implemented a fix so that OpenSolver for Google Sheets should now be accessible and working again.

It seems that some of the comments in our code were causing an OAuth scope /auth/script.scriptapps – which we do not need or use – to be detected. These comments have now been removed, so we expect error messages like “Sign-in with Google temporarily disabled for this app” to stop appearing.

We’d greatly appreciate it if you could test that it now works. Please comment below if OpenSolver for Google Sheets works for you, or if you encounter any issues, or if you have any other questions.

500,000 downloads

Today (10 Dec 2020) was a big day for OpenSolver, as we rolled past the 500,000 downloads count. Many thanks to all our Engineering Science (University of Auckland) students who have worked on this over the last decade, with a really large thank you to Jack Dunn for his major contributions over many years (including creating the Mac version). The community feedback is also much appreciated – thanks for letting us know of issues and suggesting enhancements. Cheers, Andrew

New Support Site for CBC Solver

Most of our OpenSolver users choose the standard integer programming solver, CBC (which is the default option). COIN-OR, the non-profit who support and develop CBC, have just announced a new support forum for CBC users. (This is a beta test of the new GitHub discussion forums being developed.) This is the best place for advanced users to take technical questions, such as queries about CBC parameters (which OpenSolver supports). Andrew

OpenSolver 2.9.3 Beta Release

Hi everyone,

We have now released OpenSolver 2.9.3 for beta testing! You can download this new version of OpenSolver on https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensolver/files/. Below are the release notes that cover the changes made in this new version of OpenSolver:

v2.9.3 – 2020/03/02

  • Added support for using Gurobi 9.0
  • Added a temp fix for running consecutive operations on Excel64bit

v2.9.2 – 2019-02-04

  • Add support for NEOS CPLEX as a new solver.
  • Add import LP file feature.
  • Add Examples files and submenu.
  • Fix memory error when solving consecutive non-linear models in 64bit.

As always, we welcome any feedback! Please comment below if it works ok, or if there are any issues encountered, or if you have any questions regarding the new release. Thanks!

OpenSolver for Google Sheets currently down for new users

12 Feb 2020: It was raised to us that OpenSolver for GoogleSheets is still unaccessible to new users. We are now able to replicate this bug. From our tests, new user accounts are able to install OpenSolver for Google Sheets as an Add-on from Chrome Web Store. However, the “Sign in with Google is temporarily disabled for this app” screen will still show up when trying to open the sidebar from the ribbon. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we have contacted Google regarding this issue. We need to wait for Google’s response on this, therefore we are unsure of when this problem will be fixed.

10 Feb 2020: This is no longer the case! OpenSolver for Google Sheets is now back online for new user installations. The “app isn’t verified” screen will no longer show up for new installations. We have also updated our privacy policy to align with Google’s requirements. For more information on the usage of Google OAuth scopes please visit our OpenSolver for Google Sheets page and our Privacy Policy page.

Original post: Changes made by Google mean that OpenSolver for Googlesheets is currently not working for new users who want to add it to their Googlesheets. (Apparently the first 100 users each month can sign in, but then further sign ins are blocked by Google.) We are working on fixing this, But we don’t know how long it will take, sorry. We suggest you use OpenSolver for Excel until we get it working properly for Googlesheets.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers,

Andrew

OpenSolver for Ecological Conservation

We justc ame across an interesting article using OpenSolver to help develop optimal policies for conservation.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2596

Commonalities in stream connectivity restoration alternatives: an attempt to simplify barrier removal optimization

Ryan A. McManamayJoshuah S. PerkinHenriette I. Jager First published: 07 February 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2596

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2596

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