Editing the Model Settings

Last updated on 2025-03-03

Overview

For every model, you can define certain time settings, which include the granularity, the date range, and the last actual date for your model. 

In addition, you can specify the use of relative dates and fiscal years and how you want to highlight certain time spans in your views.

This article contains the following sections:

Editing the Model Settings

To edit the settings for a model:

  1. Click the gear icon to open the Model settings.
  2. Adjust the options as necessary.
    For a description of the options see the following sections.
  3. In the Apply Changes dialog that appears, choose if you want to apply the changes to the current model only or to all linked models.
Options

The following options are available for model settings:

Shows the options that can be edited in the 'Model settings' section if you click on the gear icon in the top right corner. The model settings

Option

Description

Time settings

Here, you can define certain time settings, which include the granularity, the date range, and the last actual date for your model. 

 

For more information on this topic, see Working With Time.

Export and download

Here, you can export your model(s) out of xP&A into a variety of formats and file types. This is useful, for example, if you want to share your model with people  outside of xP&A or to save a local or offline copy of your model and its data.

For more information on this topic, see Exporting a Model

Model options

Here, you can define in the model options:

  • The Default Uncertainty Interval used for your planning throughout xP&A.
  • If you want to Hide empty dimension rows, i.e. the rows that do not contain any data for a particular dimension item.
  • The First cohort name used for cohort modeling.

Calculation

Here, you can specify, if you want the data of your model to be recomputed manually. 
Once you activate this option, the data will be recalculated.

Last edited

Created

Here, you can see who last edited the model and when.

Audit logs

Here, you can open the audit logs, which are a model-by-model running history of who has made what edits (and when) to a model's variables, dimensions, visuals, or data.

For more information on this topic, see Viewing the Audit Logs of a Model.