47.7 Creating a Bilinks report

A Bilinks report is useful if you have many dynamic links in your model. The Bilinks report details inbound Bilinks from Excel to TP and outbound Bilinks from TP to Excel.

The report provides the following information about inbound Bilinks from Excel to the TP model:

  • Bilink Index

  • Linked Excel cell name

  • Value from Excel

  • TreeAge variable, if the variable is defined at the root node

  • Description, if a description is provided from the Bilink entry.

The report provides the following information about the outbound Bilinks from the TP model to Excel:

  • Linked TreeAge Pro variable

  • Linked Excel cell name

  • Value to Excel

  • Description, if a description is provide from the Bilink entry.

Using the Bilinks tutorial example, MarkovCancerDecision_Bilinks.trex, use the following steps to generate a Bilinks report:

  • Open Tree Preferences > Excel Workbook > Bilinks Connections.

  • Select the button "BiLinks report" to generate the report.

  • Select "Apply and close" to close the Tree Preferences.