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When working in the Actions page, the user may edit the performances of alternatives to assign according to the multiple criteria, and may insert assignment examples.
The user may change the size of the grid cells and the size of the font by using the Height, Width and Font size buttons. The size of the area reserved for the inputs may be enlarged by dragging the line that divides the window in two parts. If the size of the left area of the window becomes smaller than the grid then scrollbars will appear. There may be cells smaller than its contents. In this case the contents appear truncated, but the users may see them entirely if they rest the mouse (without clicking) over one of such cells.
The performances of the alternatives may be directly input in the corresponding cells. You may navigate between cells using your mouse or the keyboard arrow keys. All input must be numerical, either positive or negative values, either integer or not (the decimal point is ".", regardless of Window's settings). The performance cells cannot be blank: zero values must be explicitly inserted as a number.
The user may change the number of criteria, either creating new ones or deleting some of them. The Criteria menu and the pop-up menu offer the commands to perform this.
The user may change the number of alternatives, either creating new ones or deleting some of them. The Actions menu and the pop-up menu offer the commands to perform this.
Each alternative has a lower and a higher category where it may be assigned to (columns ELow and EHigh, respectively). Typically, the column ELow contains the lowest category (which is always 1) and the column EHigh contains the highest category (which is 5 in the above figure). If the user changes these values then the alternative's assignment will be constrained: it becomes an assignment example. For instance, in the figure above one sees three assignment examples (which the program highlights): alternative 1 is assigned to category 5 (the highest one); alternative 10 is assigned to the interval of categories 3 to 4; and alternative 12 is assigned to category 4.
To change the values in the columns ELow and EHigh, the user must click (using the mouse) over the cell that he/she wants to change. The value in ELow cannot exceed the value in EHigh. Hence, if both values are equal to 2 and the user wishes to change both values to 3, he/she must change EHigh first.
The Actions menu contains a command Erase Examples to remove all the assignment examples (by setting ELow equal to 1 and EHigh equal to the number of categories).