Workspace & Drop-Down Menu¶
Workspace area¶
Prest’s workspace is the area where imported/Prest-generated datasets are available for analysis and exporting.
The three columns in the workspace area provide the following information about all datasets listed there:
Right-clicking on a dataset in the workspace area leads to the following options:
“View”. Displays the contents of the dataset in a separate window (can also be done by double-clicking on the dataset).
“Analysis”. See below for the available options depending on whether the selected dataset is general or budgetary.
General datasets
Tip
When importing a general-dataset .csv file, you will be prompted to match the column headers in the file with the relevant Prest headers from “Subject”, “Menu”, “Default” and “Choice”. See screenshots above for an illustration.
Budgetary datasets
Drop-down menu options¶
Workspace.
“Clear”. Removes all datasets from the workspace area.
“Restore from file”. Opens an existing Prest workspace file (.pwf) from the relevant directory.
“Save”. Saves the active Prest workspace file in the current location.
“Save as”. Allows to choose the location where the active Prest workspace file will be saved.
“Import general dataset”. Details here.
“Import budgetary dataset”. Details here.
“Quit”. Exits Prest.
Simulation. Details here.
Help.
“Prest manual”. Opens the embedded Prest documentation pages on your web browser.
“About”. Opens a dialog with information about Prest’s version, contributors, copyright and license.