http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/ Crystal Ball Users Group (CBUG) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:56:48 GMT Samik Raychaudhuri http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2456 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2456 Hi Dave, I understood the problem you are seeing. The reason is that, our excel CB functions are not tied to the seed you specify in the run options. The seed Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:15:39 GMT Jim Marks http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2455 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2455 Thanks, David To: cbug2@yahoogroups.com From: djb@... Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:41:06 +0000 Subject: [CBUG] Re: Crystal Ball 2000 in Excel 2007 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:41:39 GMT blankind http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2454 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2454 Jim, Only Crystal Ball 7.3 and later are supported with Excel 2007. You could run into functional problems, including issues with the way that your Crystal Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:50:23 GMT Andres Martingano http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2453 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2453 I agree with Pat. I would use the CB Excel functions and be very careful on how I present the results. As far as I know, there is no definition for Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:40:06 GMT Pat Leach http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2452 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2452 I don't believe CB 5.2 had the "auto-extract statistics" feature that we now have, so the only way I know of to do this would be: 1) Turn every month's Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:47:18 GMT Jim Marks http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2451 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2451 I am trying to run crystal ball 2000 in Excel 2007. When I install, I get a type mismatch error from Visual Basic. Has anyone encountered this? Does anyone Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:09:45 GMT Wilfred Harper http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2450 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2450 I am using Crystal Ball 2000 standard edition v 5.2 to do decline curve analysis. This requires applying a decline factor by month to an initial production Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:09:37 GMT Dave Winiarski http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2449 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2449 Just to continue... the file that I posted shows three cells with a custom distribution defined as an excel function in the testing tab, cells b4, c4, d4, all Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:24 GMT Dave Winiarski http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2448 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2448 Posted an example. (VolatileCustomDistributions.xls) I may be using the terminology incorrectly. Basically, what I noted was the order in which you define Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:22 GMT Samik Raychaudhuri http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2446 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2446 How are you defining your "volatile" custom distribution? Can you post a small example? -Samik Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:39:33 GMT Dave Winiarski http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2445 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2445 Is there some rule of thumb for how one should employ "volatile" custom distributions? I have a situation where the parameter range referred to in a custom Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:11:45 GMT Huybert Groenendaal http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2444 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2444 Hi Edgar, Thank you for your email and updates. In the previous email I outlined the general way (conceptually) how to go about building a model for a CVar Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:11:12 GMT Steve Sacks http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2443 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2443 David,           Thanks for your response to my question about Extreme Speed.           In accordance with your suggestion, I did run the Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:56:22 GMT blankind http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2442 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2442 Steve, The Extreme Speed engine uses a third party utility to speed up simulations (and optimizations that run a series of simulations), but it does have a few Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:18:04 GMT Steve Sacks http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2441 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cbug2/message/2441 Hi,         I hope somebody could give me some help with a really strange problem I am having with Extreme Speed.  When I run a simulation at Normal