Dynamic Skip?
Hi,
I’m wondering if there is any way to set the range to be skiped over (when using the Skip operation) dynamically? I was hoping I might be able to set the range with Indirect – ie:
Well Name = Exp Well Summary::Well Name Skip Indirect(“ExpWellID[“&Counta(Exp Well Summary::Well Name)&”] .. ExpWellID[LAST]”)
But I get a syntax error when trying to use Indirect with Skip. Is there any other way to do this?
Many thanks
Any update to this question? I know it’s four years old but it’s a worthwhile question. I find myself constantly wishing Quantrix had this capability too. Being able to manually override calculated values would make my models so much more user-friendly (since people are used to doing just that in Excel – e.g. as each month’s Actuals are known, one just manually types in the Actuals in place of the formula that was previously calculating the Budget values).
Thanks for your solution of IF and SWITCH functions!
I’m agree avoid having to use a SKIP in this case but I think it’s better if we can use SKIP with CLAUSE or CONDITION 
Please help me about [b:ihr8d25n]automatic creating[/b:ihr8d25n] the number of Items of Year Category when I [b:ihr8d25n]change[/b:ihr8d25n] “Total operation years”?
Hi – You could like the Year category to a new matrix, then set a flag to indicate when the calculations should occur for Loan and Depreciation.
Then you can use this flag in an IF or SWITCH function, and avoid having to use a SKIP.
You can then simply change the flags to adjust the calculation.
Please see attached.
Hi,
[b:1j0j0op1]I have an example about financial model of power plant:[/b:1j0j0op1]
– Total operation years = 30 (so the Category “Year” have 30 items: ‘1’,’2′, …, ’30’)
– Loan repayment time [LRT] = 10 years
– Depreciation time of Construction [DTC] = 25 years
[b:1j0j0op1]Problem:[/b:1j0j0op1]
In the functions of ALL ROWS in matrix “Loan Repayment Calculation” I have to write: [color=”Blue”]… skip ‘1’..’10′[/color]
Same with matrix “Depreciation Calculation”: [color=”Blue”]… skip ‘1’..’25′[/color]
My problem is that when I change [LRT] or [DTC], I have to rewrite all of the functions above. [b:1j0j0op1]It’s very tired![/b:1j0j0op1]
Is there any way to write functions with “dynamic skip”? (maybe like: … skip #year = 1 to #year = [LRT] 
)
[i:1j0j0op1]More advance: any way to create automatically the number of Items of Category “Year” when I change the Total operation years?[/i:1j0j0op1]
Thanks!