Define Table dialog box

Use the Define Table Pad dialog box to view and edit the properties of the selected table pad.

To open the Define Table Pad dialog box, double-click the open table pad window (or right-click the open table pad window and then choose Open from the menu that appears).

Allowable

Displays a list of all entities in the model. Use this list to select the entities whose values you want to include in the table.

Note: If you are creating a Comparative table, you can select only one entity.

The "Allowable" list also contains a Blank Line entry. Use the Blank Line entry to format the table by adding blank lines between entities in the "Selected" list. You can add as many blank lines to the table as you want.

Tip: You can also select entities for the table by dragging and dropping a stock, flow, or converter icon on the Map or Model layer directly onto the table pad icon or onto a pinned table pad. When you view the Define Table dialog box, the entities you selected via drag and drop appear in the "Selected" list.

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• To add an entity to the "Selected" list, double-click its name in the "Allowable" list, or select it and then click the button. The entity's name turns gray in the "Allowable" list.
• To remove an entity from the "Selected" list, double-click its name in the "Selected" list, or select it and then click the button.
• To exchange an entity in the "Allowable" list for the one in the "Selected" list, select the entities in each list and then click the button.

Tip: If the "Selected" or "Allowable" list has multiple entities, use drag-select, SHIFT+click, CTRL+click (Windows), or Command-click (Mac) to select multiple entities in either list.

Selected

Displays a list of the entities you selected from the "Allowable" list.

• To add or remove entities from the "Selected" list, see the instructions for the "Allowable" list (above).

Table Type

Select the Comparative check box to generate table in comparative mode. Comparative mode collects the results for the selected entity over a series of consecutive simulation runs.

This option is often used in conjunction with sensitivity analysis. When comparative tables are generated and sensitivity analysis is turned on, clicking the button at the top of the Table Pad window displays a journal of the most recent sensitivity setup used to create the table.

Tip: Comparative tables accumulate data. Periodically, you may wish to clear this data. To do so, click at the top of the Table Pad window or position the dynamite tool in the table and click once. For more information about deleting data with the dynamite tool, see Dynamite operations.

Alternatively, you can clear the data from all graphs and tables at once by choosing Restore Graphs & Tables from the Model menu.

Note:If the Comparative check box is selected and you load a saved run, the comparative table does not clear the historical data run or change to display vales from the loaded run.

Orientation

Select the Vertical check box to format the table output in vertical columns (entity names are listed at the top of each table column, and their values are displayed below each entity).

If you do not select this check box, the table output is formatted in horizontal columns (entity names are listed along the left side of the table, at the start of each row, and their values are displayed to the right of each entity).

C -> F / C <- F

Use this button to make converters in the "Selected" list act like flows when displayed in tables. By default, converter values are reported as instantaneous values. If you are reporting flows as summed values (by selecting the Summed option for Report flow values), there can be a mismatch between the reporting of a flow value and the reporting of a converter value that depends upon the flow.

If the converter is to be reported as a flow value a * appears to the left of the converter's name in the "Selected" list). You can change it back by clicking on the the C <- F button.

For more information and examples, see Reporting values in tables.

Note: This will make the converter be reported like a flow (or not) in all tables. It is a model wide stetting and can also be changed by checking or unchecking the Flow concept check box for the entity on the Scales and Ranges panel.

Report

Use the options in this section to select whether reported values for stocks, flows, and converters are from the beginning of each report interval or from the ending of each report interval. For more information and examples, see Reporting values in tables.

• Beginning balances – Select this option to report stock, flow, and converter values from the beginning of each report interval.
• Ending balances – Select this option to report stock, flow, and converter values from the end of each report interval.

Note: This setting applies only to this table page in this table pad (in versions prior to 10.1 it applied to all tables in all pads).

Report flow values

Use the options in this section to select how to report table values for flows. For more information and examples, see Reporting values in tables.

• Instantaneous – Select this option to report flow values as instantaneous values.
• Summed – Select this option to report flow values as the sum of the flow's values over the report interval. The values for flows are displayed as the amount that actually increments (or decrements) the stock over the report interval you have specified. When the report interval is larger than DT, the flow values that are displayed will be the sum of the flow values that would have been displayed for each DT during the report interval.

Note: This setting applies only to this table page in this table pad (in versions prior to 10.1 it applied to all tables in all pads).

Report interval

Use the options in this section to specify the interval at which values are reported in the table. For example, if your model's unit of time is Months and you define a report interval of 2, the table will display values for every second month (February, April, June, etc.). The default report interval is 1.

• To specify a specific report interval value, type a value in the Report interval box that is greater than or equal to DT, and less than or equal to the time at which you have specified your simulation to end.

  Note: The Report interval box is not available when the Every DT check box is selected.

• To report values at every DT, select the Every DT check box. Selecting this option is helpful when you are debugging your model because you can see the results of the calculations as the calculations are made.

Note: This setting applies only to this table page in this table pad (in versions prior to 10.1 it applied to all tables in all pads).

Options

• Use month names – Select this check box to display month names rather than numbers (for example, "January" vs "1") in the Month row or column heading.

  Note: This check box is available only if Months is selected as the unit of time in the Run Specs dialog box.

• Hide detail – Select this check box to present a cleaner table interface by hiding the following items that are displayed by default at the top of the table pad: the date and time of the most recent simulation run, the dynamite icon , the print icon , and the lock icon .
• Mark for export – Select this check box to include the table in a report generated by a button that has been assigned the Print Export command

Font Size

Select the font size for all text in the table. The default size is 9 pt.

Title

Type the title for the current table pad page. The title appears in the title bar of an unpinned pad and at the top of pinned and unpinned pads. The title appears at the bottom of the table when you print a table pad.

Page

Use the Page option to add more pages to the pad and to navigate between existing pages to define them. Each page can display a different table. You can create as many pages for the pad as you want.

• To create a new page, click the New button.

  

  The number under the New button changes to the next sequential number. Use the rest of the options in the dialog box to define the table you want to display on the new page.

• To move to the next or previous page, click the up or down arrow buttons. The number between the arrows indicates the page you are currently viewing.

  

  You can edit the contents of the currently displayed page.

Notes: If you create more than one page for the table pad, model users can use the page turner in the pad's lower-left corner to move from page to page. For more information, see To turn the page in a pad.

You can delete any page from a pad by using the dynamite tool. For more information, see To delete pages or data from a pad.