Creating a Time Series

To create a time series:

  1. Click the Add Series button in the Data Series group on the Home ribbon tab.
    If the sheet data source contains several calendar levels, the Add Series dialog box opens. Specify the calendar frequency level of created time series. For example:

An empty time series is added to the current workbook sheet.

  1. Specify values of mandatory series attributes by using:

NOTE.If the data source already contains time series with specified attributes values, series observations values are displayed in the data table.

  1. Specify the series name. To do this:

  2. Enter names of series observations.

  3. Save the time series.

Features of Saving Series in the Desktop Application

Custom time series are saved to a workbook without binding to dimensions of the time series database.

If on setting a new time series, values of all mandatory attributes are not specified, the Series Attributes dialog box opens:

Specify the series name, values of all mandatory attributes and click the Save button.

If one time series is saved, the dialog box closes. If more than one time series are saved, the dialog is refreshed to enter attribute values of the following series. To move to saving the following series without saving the current one, click the Skip button.

See also:

Working with Time Series