Alternatives Manager

The Alternatives Manager lets you create, view, and edit the alternatives that make up the model scenarios. The dialog box consists of a pane that displays folders for each of the alternative types which can be expanded to display all of the alternatives for that type, and a toolbar.

The toolbar consists of the following buttons:

	New	Opens a submenu containing the following commands: Base Alternative —Creates a new Base Alternative of the currently highlighted type. Child Alternative —Creates a new Child Alternative from the currently highlighted Base Alternative.
	Delete	Deletes the currently highlighted alternative.
	Duplicate	Creates a copy of the currently highlighted alternative.
	Open	Opens the Alternative Editor dialog box for the currently highlighted alternative.
	Merge Alternative	Moves all records from one alternative to another.
	Rename	Lets you rename the currently highlighted alternative.
	Report	Lets you generate a report of the currently highlighted alternative.
	Expand All	Expands all of the branches in the hierarchy displayed in the list pane.
	Collapse All	Collapses all of the branches in the hierarchy displayed in the list pane.
	Help	Displays online help for the Alternatives Manager.