The Summary Tab

Ravel models are far easier to audit and understand than spreadsheet models, where fundamentally only the person who designs a sheet can understand the logic contained in its cell reference formulas. In contrast, anyone who can read a flowchart can understand the logic behind a Ravel model. In addition, Ravel is self-documenting via the Equations and Summary Tabs.

The Equation Tab shows you a zoomable image of the equations in your model. These equations can also be exported to word processing applications via the File/Export Canvas as/LaTeX command.

The Summary Tab gives you a well-formatted and structured view of the components of a Ravel model, including the dimensions of each variable, and the number of values on each dimension.

Figure 70: Ravel auto-documenting a model using the Summary Tab