Result Window Control

The Result Window control allows you to embed a result window (as either a chart or a table) directly into a Dashboard:

You do this by specifying an existing Result element. Any of the five Result element types (Time History, Distribution, Final Value, Multi-Variate and Array) can be embedded and displayed.

Note: An alternative way to display a result window via a Dashboard is to link it to a Button control: pressing the button then displays the result window. The Result Window control, however, is different in that it embeds the result window directly in the Dashboard so it can be viewed without requiring the Dashboard user to press a button.

The toolbar button looks like this:

Result Window Control Button

The Result Window control looks like this when it is first added to a Dashboard and selected:

The eight handles allow you to resize the window. For more precise changes, you can also change the width of the control using Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right, and change the height using Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down. (The default change is 1 pixel at a time. If you press the Shft key, the change is 5 pixels).

Double-clicking on the control displays the following properties dialog:

The first action you must take is to specify the Result element you wish to display by pressing <Click to select> at the top of the dialog. This will display a browser for selecting the Result element of interest. Note that the browser will contain only the Result elements in the model (you can only select a Result element).

Once you have linked the control to an element, the linked element will be listed:

You can remove the linkage (by pressing the red X button), or reassign the linkage (by pressing the name of the element itself).

Note: You cannot link the same Result element to different Result Window controls. If you wish to have the same result displayed in two different controls (e.g., one as a chart and one as a table), you must copy the Result element so each control can link to a different element.

In the Dashboard (prior to running) the control has a different appearance based on the type of Result element selected:

The next several options will differ depending on the type of Result element you have selected. These (and the remaining Appearance options) are described in the topics listed below.