Sort or group variables

You can sort the Properties Inspector's output by selecting a column heading; for example, you can sort by name, value, or unit of measure.

The Properties Inspector also contains the following special columns, listed left-to-right as they appear in the user interface (UI), on which you can select to sort variables:

• - Sort by required variables

• - Sort by invariant variables

• - Sort by variables that are outside their min and max bounds

• - Sort by variables at their default value

• - Sort by variables whose value has been set by the user

• - Sort by unsolved variables

• S - Sort or group by specified or calculated variables

In addition, you may group the output by the entries for a desired field (column header).

Sort by variable

1. Open the Properties Inspector.

2. Expand the Variables section.

   

3. To sort by specified or calculated variables, select on the appropriate column header; for example, S (sort or group by specified or calculated variables). When you hover over each column header, a tooltip will display with information on what each column means.

Group or ungroup by variable

4. Select the gray bar that appears immediately below a section heading, for example, Variables. This will open the Group Box - a section to which column headings are dragged to group data. The Group Box reads "group by area" and "Drag a field here to group by that field" when no grouping is in place. When a grouping is in place, the Group Box contains the label of a field (column heading) by which the list is currently grouped. In the following example, the Variables section is already grouped by Model.

   

5. Drag the desired column heading into the Group Box. In the following example, grouping by Units is added to the existing grouping by Model.

   

6. The display changes to represent a primary grouping by model, and a secondary grouping by Units. You can sort by either field by selecting its entry in the Group Box.

   

7. To un-group, drag the undesired item anywhere outside of the Group Box.