The main menu panel is where all high level user actions are held. The following actions can be performed using these Main Menu buttons:
- Save: Validates and saves the matrix. If there are validation errors, these will be shown in the validation panel and
must be resolved before the matrix can be saved.
- Validate: This button checks that there are no errors within the matrix configuration.
A list of validation errors will be shown in the validation panel, if there are invalid configurations in the matrix.
- Export: Exports the matrix into a comma-separated values (CSV) file to allow for formatting for ease of printing.
- Question: Adds additional questions to the matrix. All questions which are used in
the decision making logic, or contribute a score, can be added. The type of answer for a question is defined when creating
the questionnaire in the IEG editor. Currently the supported types are numeric, boolean and codetable.
- Outcome: Allows a user to select outcomes to add to the matrix. Only outcomes
which can be generated based on a combination of answers should be added. If an outcome is generated
based on the cumulative score produced from a matrix (for example, if the score is greater than 0
and less than 10 then the outcome is Low Risk), it should not be added to the matrix. Multiple outcomes can
be added to a matrix.
- Options: There is a context menu available on this button which allows to add the following options to the matrix:
Table 1. Options Context Menu itemsName |
Description |
Add Contradictions |
Adds a Contradiction outcome to the matrix to the left of all the outcome columns.
There can only be one contradiction column in the matrix, though it can contain multiple
combinations. |
Add Priority |
Adds a column of text boxes to the right of the answers which are used to
assign a numeric priority to each answer. |
Add Score |
Adds a column of text boxes to the right of the answers which are used to
assign a numeric score to each answer. |