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  1. Single Pairwise Verbal Comparisons

    Pairwise Verbal can be used to express your judgment about the relative importance or preference or likelihood of the two elements.  In the example below, we are asked to compare the relative importance of the two objectives  (Cost of Ownership an...
  2. How to Navigate in the Evaluation?

    How to Navigate in the Evaluation? The Project Manager decides the navigation options available during the evaluation.  By default, the following navigation box and buttons are available at the bottom of the evaluation page.  Sequential Navig...
  3. How to Navigate in the Evaluation?

    Sequential Navigation: The easiest and most common way to proceed through the evaluation is sequential -- by clicking the " Next " button after entering any information requested on each page.  You can go back to a previous step using the " Previ...
  4. Time Periods Settings

    You can manage the Time Periods in Allocate > TIME PERIODS SETTINGS .  Below is a sample of a scenario with Time Periods.  Time Periods allows you to have one or more sets of alternatives that will span one or more periods. You can specify Ti...
  5. Funding Pools

    Funding Pools allow specification of sources of funds as well as what the funds can be used for.  For example, funds from state governments and local governments might be restricted to be used only for certain alternatives (projects).  When setting ...
  6. Add, Edit, Delete Custom Constraints

    You can add, edit, or delete custom constraints from Allocate > Portfolio Management CUSTOM CONSTRAINTS page.  To add new Custom Constraints, simply type the Custom Constraint Name in the text box provided and then click the + button.  To e...
  7. Dependencies Constraints

    Dependencies are one of the constraints that can be defined when determining the alternatives to be funded in Resource Allocation .  You can display the dependencies in Table  or List  view.  Dependencies are displayed in the Table view by defa...
  8. Custom Constraints in Portfolio View

    Custom Constraints added from Allocate > Project Management > CUSTOM CONTRAINTS are displayed as columns on the Portfolio View page. Below we see the Network and Project Managers custom constraints: Hovering on the total number of custom constr...
  9. Portfolio Scenario

    Scenarios provide the ability to save different Resource Aligner constraint sets (e.g., budget limit, musts, must-nots, custom constraints, dependencies, funding pools, and groups).  You can then compare these scenarios in a Pareto Curve (see Effici...
  10. Portfolio Solve and Auto-Solve

    Solve Solve – solves the optimization when executed. If Auto-solve is checked then a solution is sought whenever a variable or constraint is changed. ...