Allow to use active in data tables

[jnnr]

What can be improved?

I would like to be able to use active from within data tables. There might be reasons for that to be forbidden because of implementation details. But as a user, I cannot see a reason why active is not allowed in data tables.

As I am working with models at different spatial resolution, being able to provide all data describing the graph compactly would be of great use. If I could use active from within data tables, I could drop the yaml file describing specific links or nodes.

As an example, I currently have to spread data defining each link in two separate places.
links.csv

techs,distance,from,to
ESP_to_FRA,8,ESP,FRA
ESP_to_PRT,3,ESP,PRT

and links.yaml

techs:
  ESP_to_FRA:
    active: True
  ESP_to_PRT:
    active: True

Similar for nodes. Because of this, I need to use Jinja templates to create the yaml, instead of providing all data with spatial granularity in one or a few data tables.

update Limited the issue to active, as template seems to be supported in data tables already, as indicated in the comments.

Version

v0.7.0.dev4

[brynpickering]

Templates have already been added to data tables in #719

Could you update this issue to just adding active to data tables, as that wasn't on our radar til now!

[jnnr]

Great! I will test this as soon as I can.