Structured Spreadsheet Modelling and Implementation with Multiple Dimensions -- Part 2: Implementation
This work addresses spreadsheet maintenance challenges for users dealing with complex multi-dimensional data, but it is incremental as it focuses on implementation details rather than new methods.
The paper tackles the implementation of multi-dimensional spreadsheet models by providing precise steps to create maintainable spreadsheets, building on a conceptual model from Part 1.
In Part 1, we showed how to develop a conceptual model of a problem involving variables of multiple dimensions, like Products, Regions, Sectors and Months. The conceptual model is presented as a Formula Diagram, giving a global view of the interaction between all the variables, and a Formula List, giving a precise view of the interaction between the variables. In this paper, we present precise steps to implement a multi-dimensional problem in a way that will produce a spreadsheet that is easy to maintain