This article describes how to use the scenario manager in Meisterplan.

• Open the Scenario Manager
• Scenario Manager Features
• Add a Scenario
• Freeze a Scenario
• Unfreeze a Scenario
• Replace Plan of Record with Scenario
• Hide a Scenario
• Configure a Scenario
• Delete a Scenario
• Open or Close a Scenario
• Start or End the Scenario Comparison
• Open or Cancel Your Selection

Opening the Scenario Manager

In the Portfolio Designer and Goals view, select Manage Scenarios in the header menu to open the Scenario Manager.

Scenario Manager Features

The scenario manager provides the following features:

•  Add Scenario
•  Copy Scenario
•  Freeze (remove editing rights for all users to avoid chanegs being made to the scenario until editing rights are reassigned) - access to this feature requires ownership of the scenario or either the According to Configured Scenario Rights or the All Scenarios right.
•  Replace Plan of Record with Scenario - requires either the According to Configured Scenario Rights or the All Scenarios right as well as the Edit Plan of Record editing right.
• View
• Show all will display all scenarios. Archived scenarios will be displayed with a gray font.
• Hide archived will hide archived scenarios and can be selected in the Archived option.
• Configure Scenario (hover over a scenario and click the pen icon) - access to this feature requires ownership or either the According to Configured Scenario Rights or the All Scenarios right.
• Delete Scenario (hover over a scenario and click the trashcan icon) - access to this feature requires ownership or either the According to Configured Scenario Rights or the All Scenarios right.
• Open Scenario (double-click a scenario or select it and click Open Scenario).
• Scenario Comparison (select an active scenario and a comparison scenario, or select Plan of Record to compare it with the plan of record, then click Open Scenario).
• End Scenario Mode (close scenario manager, end scenario mode and any active scenario).
• Open Scenario (close scenario manager, open scenario selection and scenario comparison setting).
• Close (close scenario manager, cancel scenario selection and scenario comparison setting).

Replace "[Date]" with the date of the respective scenario or plan.

Add a Scenario

Click Add Scenario to create a scenario based on the plan of record.

Click Copy Scenario to create a scenario based on the selected scenario.

• When creating a scenario, you will be prompted to enter a Scenario Name and Edit Rights.
• The person creating the scenario is assigned edit rights by default.
• Assign editing rights to any other users that should also be permitted to modify data in the new scenario.
• Editing rights and other scenario properties may be modified by the scenario's creator and users with either the According to Configured Scenario Rights or the All Scenarios right.
• Set a scenario as Archived if it is no longer an active scenario but you would still like to keep it. Archived scenarios can no longer be opened and will no longer be available in the scenario menu or for reporting. They will be displayed in gray in the scenario manager and can be hidden by selecting Hide archived in the View menu.

Freeze a Scenario

 Click Freeze to remove all editing rights from the selected scenario. 
Frozen scenarios can no longer be edited by any user until editing rights are reassigned.

Unfreeze a Scenario

Reassign editing rights to a scenario via its properties to unfreeze it, making it editable again.
See the Edit Scenario article for details.

Replace Plan of Record with Scenario

Click Replace Plan of Record with Scenario to submit the selected scenario as the new plan of record.

• The entire plan of record will be replaced with the selected scenario, including all portfolios.
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• The selected scenario remains and can be used for further planning; changes made in the plan of record will not be transferred to this scenario.

NOTE: The current plan of record is not automatically saved before being replaced by the scenario. To save the plan of record beforehand, simply create a new scenario as a backup.

Instead of transferring the entire scenario, you can transfer individual projects from the scenario to the plan of record. To do this, move your cursor over the project name in the list, click on the icon with the three dots, and select the option Submit Project to Plan of Record.

Hide a Scenario

In the View menu, select whether to display all scenarios (Show all), only those that have not been archived via the Archived option (Hide archived).

Configure a Scenario

Configure Scenario: Hover over a scenario and click on the pen icon to configure that scenario. See the Configure Scenario article for details.

Delete a Scenario

Delete Scenario: Hover over a scenario and click on the garbage can icon to delete that scenario. 

Open or Close a Scenario

Double-click a scenario or select it and click Open Scenario to close the scenario manager and open that scenario.

Click End Scenario Mode to close the scenario manager, end the scenario mode and any active scenario comparison, and work with the plan of record again.

Once you have selected a scenario in the scenario manager, it will then be available for selection in the scenario menu in the header. When a scenario is active, you may also select the Plan of Record in the scenario menu to end the scenario mode.

Start or End the Scenario Comparison

Select an active scenario and a comparison scenario or the plan of record and click Open Scenario to close the scenario manager and activate the scenario comparison.

Select None and click Open Scenario to close the scenario manager and end the scenario comparison.

While the scenario comparison is active, you have access to the scenario comparison menu in the header. Here, you may select one of the five most recently compared scenarios, open the scenario manager via Manage Scenarios or end the scenario comparison.

When the scenario comparison is not active, you can open the scenario manager by selecting Manage Scenarios in the scenario menu to start the scenario comparison.

See the Scenario Comparison article for details.

Open or Cancel Your Selection

Click Open Scenario to close the scenario manager and open the scenario selection and scenario comparison settings.

Click Close to close the scenario manager and cancel the scenario selection and scenario comparison setting.