Editing Time Series Elements Using a Button

Input controls in Dashboards (e.g., Input Edit Fields and Sliders) can be used to enter single values. However, if your model uses Time Series elements to input time series data, you may want the user to be able to directly edit these data. This can be done by using a Button control that is linked to a Time Series element.

Within the Button control, you must select Edit Time Series Data for the command:

You then select the Time Series element that you want to edit. Note that when you click on <Click to select>, the dialog to select an element will only display Time Series elements.

Within a Dashboard, when the Button is pressed, the dialog for defining the Time Series data is displayed:

The user can edit existing items, or add and remove new rows to the time series.

Note: Pressing a Dashboard button linked to a Time Series element is equivalent to pressing the Edit Data button within the Time Series element’s property dialog. As a result, depending on how the element is defined, under some circumstances, the Dashboard user may only be able to view the data, but not edit it (e.g., if the element was linked to a spreadsheet).