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VIDEO

Description

The Offers page is rich in information and it is where most of the user actions are performed including switch submit mode ON/OFF and edit and submit manual bids.

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Click Offers to open the Offer page

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Information Summary

The information in the Offer page applies to each unit and service.

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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF COLUMNS IN THE OFFER PAGE

  • Auto Submit mode

    • Current state of autobidder, either ON or OFF

  • Algo Bids

    • When an Algo bid was last modified

    • The health of the last Algo submission

      • How long ago the last Algo Bid was submitted (hidden column)

  • Draft Bids

    • When your Draft bid was last modified

      • NOTE: This will be empty until you “Load into drafts” (see below)

    • The health of the last Manual Submission

      • How long ago the last Manual Bid was submitted (hidden column)

      • NOTE: This will be empty until you submit a manual bid.

      • This only shows your manual bid information

  • Active Acknowledge Offers

    • NEM time when AEMO Acknowledged the current active bid

    • Who Authorised the current active bid

    • Other information such as Rebid Reason (hidden)

Tip

Select the settlement date

Note

Submit mode is dateless and therefore switching submit mode will apply to all dates.

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Actions applied to Multiple Bids

There are three actions that may be performed on multiple bids at one time.

  • Switch algo auto submit mode from ON to OFF and vice versa

  • Load other bids into draft bids

    • ‘other bids’ are acknowledged bids, a bid template, algo bid or draft bids (from another date)

  • Submit draft bids

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  • Select the units and services you wish to action

  • Click on an Action button

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Switch Algo Auto Submit Mode

Switching the Submit Mode effectively turns the autobidding system ON or OFF

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  • Select the Auto Submit Mode

  • Add Notes (optional)

  • Click Submit

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Info

The validation warning ‘overriding with same value’ does not prevent you from affecting the action, rather it simply highlights that the action will not change the submit mode of that unit and service. For example switching submit mode from ON to ON will not change the submit mode.

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Load into Drafts

Your Drafts are the bids that you may edit and submit manually. However before you can edit and submit a manual bid you first must load bids into your drafts. The bids you load into your drafts can be from one of four sources.

  1. A bid template

  2. Acknowledged bids

  3. Algo bids

  4. Draft bids

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  • Select the source

  • Select the date of the source you wish to copy from

    • Note: templates are dateless, rather you select from a list of templates

  • Click Load

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Info

  • The validation ‘overriding existing offer’ warns you that you have an existing draft and that it will be replaced with a new draft copied from the selected source.

  • Change status ‘no change’ that there is no bid in the selected source for that unit and service

Note

Only the latest draft per day is stored. Therefore you cannot have multiple drafts for a day nor can you go back to an old draft. If you wish to work with multiple drafts you should edit and save them as templates.

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Prepare to submit drafts

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  • Select the ‘submit to date’ - this is the settlementdate of the bid

  • Enter or select the rebid fields

  • Click ‘submit’

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Info

  • The validation aims to ensure that the bid will be accepted. ‘Fail’ means that the bid is expected to be rejected.

  • Standard keyboard navigation works throughout the Autobidder, for example

    • TAB through the rebid fields

    • ctrl+ A to select a datetime, then ctrl+C to copy, enter, tab, ctrl+V , this will copy move paste the datetimes

Actions to a single bid

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Open any bid or submission

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Click on any green information in the Offer page to open either a bid (algo, acknowledged or draft) or the last submission (algo or manual).

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Note: Check boxes are for

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‘Actions to Multiple

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Bids’ only

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Edit draft bid

The only bid you may edit is your draft bid. If you would like to edit another bid, for example an algo bid, you must load it into draft first.

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  • Use most standard key strokes to edit such as,

    • ctrl+C, shift arrow, ctrl+V and ctrl+D (ctrl+D is the most efficient)

      • However ctrl+shift and page up/down are not supported in this table

  • Expand pricebands to edit

  • Click ‘save changes’ to save your edits

    • 'unsaved changes' tells you there are edits that have not been saved

  • Click on the duid/service in the left hand navigation to move to another draft bid

  • Hover over chart to display values

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Info

  • A list of pricebands, unit information, MR price and validations is on the left hand side.

  • Failed validations are also highlighted in the cell

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Edit draft bids

Open a bid

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Open last Submission

  • either the last algo or the last draft (manual) bid

  • NOTE: the last submission is a set of bids submitted together

1. Switch Submit Mode

Information on the latest of four types of offer are shown in the offer page. Each offer is specific to a settlementdate, a unit and a service. The four offer types are:

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1 Your Draft offer. These will be blank until you load an offer from one of four sources into your draft offers (see description load into drafts below). You can then edit your draft offer and manually submit it. Last Modified At shows when each Draft offer was last modified. The screenshot shows, 3 minutes ago. Click on this link to open and edit the draft offer. Your draft offer is specific to you and cannot be shared.

2 Your Last Manual Submission. If there has been no manual submissions then this offer will be blank. Otherwise the Status will show the number of validation steps that has been completed in the submission process. For example the screenshot to the left shows, 5/5 Send to AEMO. Click on this link to access the offers as well as more detail of the success (or failure) of the bid validation. Submitted At shows how long ago you last manually submitted an offer.

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3 Active Acknowledged Offers shows information on the current (latest) offer acknowledged by AEMO from any source. Acknowledged At (NEM) shows the NEM time when the offer was acknowledged. For example the screenshot shows, 2021-02-08 10:41:28. Click on this link to inspect the offer. Loaded At shows how long ago the acknowledged offer was received by vOffer via AEMO’s eHub-API. Authorised By is who/what submitted the Offer. Reference Id is a label for audit purposes. Status is the bid status (this should always be VALID). Method is how the offer was submitted (FTP or API. vOffer always uses API). Entry Type is either REBID or INITIAL. And Rebid Reason.

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4 Algo Offers are the latest offers created by an algorithm from vAdvisor. Last Modified At shows how long ago the Offer was last modified by vAdvisor. Note that vAdvisor will continue to reformulate and update optimal offers even when submit mode is OFF and therefore vOffer is not automatically submitting these updated offers.

2. Submit mode information and status

Important note: all offers are a function of unit, service and settlement date however submit mode applies for all settlementdates.

Submit Mode shows whether the automatic submission of vAdvisor bids is ON or OFF. Last Mode Switched At shows when the Submit Mode was last changed. Last Mode Switched By shows the person who made the last change to the submit mode. Last Modified Notes are the notes made by the person who last changed the submit mode.

ON and OFF defined: The submit mode is independent of the selected settlement date. AUTO means that vOffer is automatically collecting updated offers created by vAdvisor and submitting them to AEMO. MANUAL means that vOffer is not collecting updated offers from vAdvisor.

3. Initiate Actions

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Important note: You must first select a set of offers to action.

Click on any of the three actions.

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Load into drafts will open a curtain from which you may copy offers into your draft offers from any of the following four sources:

predefined templates, algo, draft from another settlement date, or latest acknowledged.

Prepare to submit drafts will open a curtain from which you complete the bid submission process.

Switch submit mode will open a curtain from which you change the submit mode status from MANUAL to AUTO or vice versa.

Load into drafts from the following four offer sources

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Load into drafts from Templates:

Current shows the time since the draft was last updated. Load from shows the time since the template was last updated. Validation in this instance warns that you are about to override an existing draft offer. Click Load to upload the template to your draft offer.

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Load into drafts from Acknowledged, Algo or Draft offers:

Normally you would select the latest offer from the current day however you may select a settlement date from which to load the last offer. The process is the same for loading from Acknowledged, Algo or Draft offers.

Prepare to submit drafts

Prepare to submit drafts will allow you to complete the submit process for the selected draft offers.

IMPORTANT: SUBMIT MODE MUST BE MANUAL to be able to manually submit an offer from vOffer.

Switch submit mode will allow you to change the submit mode (from Manual to Auto and vice versa) for the selected offers.

a. Load into Drafts

b. Prepare to Submit Drafts

c. Switch Submit Mode

4. Edit Draft Offers

Switch the submit mode to AUTO or MANUAL

Submit mode summary

AUTO means that vOffer is automatically submitting offers as they are updated by vAdvisor. MANUAL means that the automated submission is switched off and bids may be manually edited and submitted using either vOffer or a third party bidding system. Note that offers cannot be manually submitted if submit mode is AUTO.

Changing submit mode (REFER TO BID-1145 AS I RECKON WE SHOULD CHANGE THE SWITCH LOGIC)

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Select the services for each unit you wish to change.

  1. Selecting a unit will select all of the services for that unit.

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Click “Switch submit mode”.

  1. A curtain will appear.

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Submission content

Info

Submission Progress shows each stage of the bid submission process and the finish time.

Tip

  • Click on the bid in a submission set to view the submitted bid

  • If a stage in the Submission Process fails, click ‘logs’ to inspect the reason

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