External Events Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will provide a brief overview of External Events in PlanDev in a walkthrough format. Extensive details on what External Events, External Sources, and Derivation Groups are can be found under at External Events planning section.

Prerequisites

External events are a component similar to Activities and Resources within PlanDev, and as such require a deployment of PlanDev. Additionally, to interact with the external events in a plan's context, a mission model must be created (though as of now, there is no connection between anything related to external events and mission models, so any mission model should be fine).

You can deploy PlanDev locally on your machine by following the simple steps outlined in our Fast Track instructions.

After you've confirmed the PlanDev UI is available on http://localhost/ and a mission model has been uploaded, you should be ready to proceed with this tutorial.