Category Archives: Authoring

This category contains messages about ModelSheet Authoring, our environment for building model-based spreadsheets. ModelSheet Authoring contains most of the technology behind customizable templates.

ModelSheet Software to speak at M.I.T. Excel Users Group

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The founders of ModelSheet Software will speak at a meeting of the Excel Users Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on January 5, 2010 from 12 PM – 1 PM in building N42. Below is an abstract of the … Continue reading

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Editing Dimensions and Time Series in ModelSheet Models

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We have some new advanced features for editing dimensions and time series of variable tables in workbooks. Dimensions ModelSheet offers several levels of control of dimensions. (An example of a dimension is a product line with product families and child products … Continue reading

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"Formula View" in Customized Templates and in ModelSheet Authoring

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Formula View in ModelSheet Customized Templates All ModelSheet customizable templates have a worksheet named “Formulas” that displays all the symbolic formulas in the model. The Formula View makes is easier to understand a model by providing a list of readable … Continue reading

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Research Paper on ModelSheet Authoring

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The September 2008 issue of the Journal of Internet Business and Commerce (JIBC) has published a peer-reviewed research paper on ModelSheet that we submitted. The paper is a shortened form of the introductory white paper on our website.  Title: “An … Continue reading

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When should sheet layout have semantic meaning?

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One of the design principles of ModelSheet is that model logic is completely separated from sheet layout. This means changing any layout feature does not affect model logic. Another way to say it is that layout information has no semantic … Continue reading

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