Help Contents

Overview

  • About Optsee® Help
  • System Requirements
  • Installation
  • Registration
  • Back-Up and Sharing Files

    • Quick Start Guide

  • Table of Contents
  • Opening a Datafile
  • Naming and Saving a New Portfolio
  • Adding Project Attributes to Your Portfolio
  • Adding Individual Projects to Your Portfolio
  • Editing Projects in Your Portfolio
  • Importing Projects to Your Portfolio
  • Creating a Bubble Chart
  • Examining a Bubble Chart: First Analysis
  • Interacting With Bubbles
  • Using Zoom-Boxes
  • Annotating and Drawing on Your Charts
  • Displaying Bubbles With Zero and Below Sizes
  • Setting Chart Preferences
  • Customizing Your Bubbles
  • Adding Background Colors and Gradients
  • Creating a 3D Bubble Chart
  • Analyzing and Customizing a 3D Bubble Chart
  • Displaying Subsets of Projects
  • Using Custom Legends
  • Modifying of a Subset of Projects
  • Using the Prioritization Engine
  • Using Prioritization Bar Charts
  • Using Sensitivity Charts
  • Tracking Uncertainty and Risk
  • Using Project Ranking Charts
  • SMART Prioritization Using Simulations
  • Optimizing Your Portfolios
  • Optimizing Using Project Dependencies
  • Optimizing With "Force-In" and "Force Out"
  • Comparing Multiple Optimizations
  • Using the Selected Preference Parameter
  • Using the Portfolio Dashboard
  • Creating and Using Portfolio Views
  • Using Efficient Frontier Charts
  • Using Baseline Tracking
  • Printing and Exporting Charts
  • Printing and Exporting Portfolios

    • Portfolio Lists

  • Using the Portfolio List Form
  • Portfolio List Form
  • Portfolio List Preferences

    • Portfolios

  • Portfolio Overview
  • Portfolio Data Tab
  • Bubble Charts Tab
  • Bar Charts List Tab
  • Ranking Charts Tab
  • Sensitivity Charts Tab
  • Simulation Results Tab
  • Optimizations Tab
  • Attribute List
  • Portfolio Views
  • Saved Optimizations
  • Baseline Trends
  • Portfolio Dashboard
  • Adding Attributes
  • Adding and Editing Projects
  • Project Preferences
  • Importing Projects
  • Selecting and Displaying Subsets
  • Sorting Projects
  • Querying Portfolios
  • Portfolio Optimization
  • Printing and Exporting Portfolios
  • Portfolio Preferences

    • Attributes

  • Adding Attributes
  • Attribute List
  • Attributes Form

    • Prioritization

  • Using SMART Prioritization
  • Simulation-Prioritization
  • Prioritizer form
  • Simulation Results List
  • Cumulative Percentage Chart

    • Optimization

  • The Optsee Optimizer™
  • Optimizing Your Portfolios
  • Optsee® Pro Optimization Form
  • Optsee® Plus Optimization Form
  • Optimization Results Form
  • Saved Optimizations List
  • Compare Optimizations List

    • Bubble Charts

  • Managing Bubble Charts
  • Bubble Chart Form
  • 3D Bubble Chart Form
  • Bubble Charts List Form
  • Creating Bubble Charts
  • 2D Bubble Chart Preferences
  • Creating 3D Bubble Charts
  • 3D Bubble Chart Preferences
  • Using Custom Legends
  • Annotating Bubble Charts
  • Printing and Exporting Bubble Charts

    • Bar Charts

  • Managing Bar Charts
  • Bar Charts List Form
  • Creating Bar Charts
  • Bar Chart Preferences

    • Ranking Charts

  • Using Ranking Charts
  • Ranking Charts Form
  • Ranking Charts List Form
  • Creating Ranking Charts
  • Ranking Chart Preferences

    • Efficient Frontier Charts

  • Using Efficient Frontier Charts
  • Efficient Frontier Chart Form
  • Efficient Frontier Preferences

    • Sensitivity Charts

  • Using Sensitivity Charts
  • Sensitivity Charts Form
  • Sensitivity Charts List Form
  • Creating Sensitivity Charts
  • Sensitivity Chart Preferences

    • Menus

    Opening a Datafile

    Unlike document-based applications, Optsee® uses a powerful database engine to do its work for you. When you create a new Optsee® datafile, it is created in a “name.4base” directory on Windows or in a “name.4base” Package on Macs. The file that you open has a “.4dd” application extension inside the directory or package.

    There is a demonstration database included in the Optsee® Demo download named “Optsee.4dd.” If it does not open automatically when you launch, you will see the following form:

    1. Click [Open] and then navigate to the “Optsee.4dd” file inside the Optsee folder. Click [Create] to create a new Optsee® datafile.

    2. Click on the “Optsee.4dd” file to open the demonstration datafile.

    Next: Naming and Saving a New Portfolio