Enhancement Requests for Analytica

Key for Level of Importance

Kind of cool *
Valuable **
Critical ***
I can't use Analytica without it ****
I'd pay x for it. $x

(If it's a modification of an existing feature, described in Ana wiki, you might want to add it to that description rather than here.)

Requests

Here's what I would really like to see added to Analytica:

When learning to use Analytica, I often have to go to the manual, go to the index at the end, look at the page number for the command I want to know about, then get to that page in the manual (which is not the same page as that page in Adobe Reader). I would like it if there was a command reference that had links for all the commands to the appropriate manual sections. **

Wynship Hillier wynship@hotmail.com

Good suggestion: In the meantime, you may find this useful. Open the PDF User Guide and show the "Function list" page (After "Appendices"). This lists all functions organized by functional groups (also control constructs, system variables, object classes, and parameter qualifiers). Click on any item to jump to the place in the User Guide that explains it. (Alex Graham)

I would like to see a function that can do bootstrap estimates of variance for use with a small sample. I can't seem to find a way of doing that in Analytica. *

Pierre Richard richardp@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

(Lonnie) Here's how: Bootstrapping.ana

Possibility to save model diagrams as image-files (PNG etc.): It is possible to save graphs as image-files but not views from models. Now we need to take a screenshot first and then convert it into image-file before we can add it to web-documents. ** --Jvillman 22:39, 27 June 2007 (PDT)

- I've been asking for some time to get improved printing functions. In order to make the models peer-reviewable, there needs to be a simple way to print the entire model in a compact form with a list of each node, its formula, the nodes on which it depends and supports, its indices. Right now the options are really limited and when I print to a PDF it tries to create a new file for every node. [Evan Reis, reis@certuscorp.net]

An Undo History function, or at least the possibility of undoing more than just the most recent edit (as it seems to be at present). ** Jgrellier 01:43, 26 November 2007 (PST)

When viewing a graph and altering its Uncertainty Options it would be convenient if there was a Preview button, which would allow the user to see the result of changing these parameters. * Jgrellier 09:59, 26 November 2007 (PST) In fact, it would be nice if the Uncertainty options were integrated as one or more extra tabs in the Graph setup options, so you can see the results with Preview. [MH]

Ability to add Data Point Labels within a chart. This is specifically desired for creating tornado charts where each low/high point is labeled with the input value, but is also useful for many other types of plots.