Adding a dimension to a variable

• Drag and drop another index node in the diagram
• Type Year for the index title

• Click on the key icon. Select ‘Description’ from the attribute dropdown menu.

• Type Year of ownership
• Press Alt+Enter.
• Select ‘Definition’ from the popup menu.

• Select ‘List’ from the expr popup menu.
• First cell is entered as 1, press Enter key twice to have 3 cells with appropriate nos.

• Select Maintenance cost.

• Click on the ‘Edit table’ button that shows on the attribute pane.
• Click on the ‘indexes’ icon to bring up Indexes window

• Double click Year from the index lists.
• Press OK button.

Expected: Edit table of Maintenance cost is now indexed by Year for the columns and Car type for rows

• Click on column 2 row header small car
• Change cell value from '1200' to ‘1500’
• Press arrow down key, change this cell value from '2400' to ‘2.6K’ { to check the number formatting is recognized}.
• Click on column 3 row header small ca
• Change the cell value from '1200' to '1.7e+3' {Same number format issue}
• Press arrow down key
• Change the cell value from '2400' to '300000%'
• Click the check button.
• Ctrl+r to bring up result table of Maintenance cost

Expected: Result of Maintenance cost show the new changes on its cell values

See Also

• Creating Arrays (Tables)