View and export your model results

Results are shown directly in the user interface. For per-period results, use the Periods ribbon button to show the results for the different time spans.

More ways to view and compare solution results are described in the following sections.

Create a report

Generate reports with the templates in the Reporting ribbon tab. For more information on reports, see Create a Report.

If you require detailed information about a period, use the Watch window or edit the plant and generate a report from within the plant case.

Watch window results for multi-period models

In the Network environment, the Watch window shows results for each period, even if a result is only present for one period. When data is added to the Watch window, the original data is shown on one row, and another row is added for every period where there is a result for that data.

For the original cross-period data, the aggregate result is shown. For amounts this is the sum of the amounts, and for per-unit time values it is the weighted average.

Example: A single supply of material with one price may span 12 periods. In the Watch window the original entered data is shown, along with 12 result rows. There would be 13 rows in total, one for each period, and an initial result row for the aggregate of the periods.
Alternatively, the supplied material may have different prices in each period. It would be necessary to enter 12 supplies with different prices, each of which had a date equal to the relevant period. In the Watch window this material would now have 24 rows (two rows for each supply, the entered data and a single period result, repeated for the 12 periods).

Note: The aggregate row option corresponds to the typical original cross-period data item, and so can typically be edited. This is the only row whose value can be altered via the watch set.
For example, if a supply spans several periods, the top aggregate row option is the original supply with its price and constraints. This can be edited via the Watch window.
The other rows are the results in each period. They cannot be directly constrained via this watch set. If you wish to constrain the value in a result row, an explicit constraint must be added which refers to the required timeframe. For example, the supplies could be redefined so each time period was boxed and a supply for the exact period was available (when it would have an available constraint watch item), or an explicit constraint on the period could be written separately (which would again have an independent constrainable watch item).

When adding results to a watch set, in the Object Browser Options pane the periods are selected by default, so if you add multiple items you get the aggregate row and rows for each period.

If only aggregate results are required, clear the Periods option and then add the watch items. This adds the aggregate result alone and not its children.

Per-plant per-period results

If a model contains multiple periods and these use different plant representations, the periods and plants are all listed separately in the Object Browser of the Watch window. If a plant-level value is required for each period, this must be added separately for each period.

Example: A model may contain three periods for a plant: January, February and March. This model contains a constraint. If the value in each of the three periods is required for this plant, then three different watch items must be added: one for January, one for February, and another for March.