The Flex Packaged Display can be found under Display on the Main Menu.
This display feature of IFs allows users more flexibility than the Packaged Display by allowing for the display of data sets by specific country or group.
The Flex Packaged Display is designed to allow users to graph information on a specific country/region or group. The display variables are located in a list on the left hand side of the screen. To the right of this list of variables is a list of general categories. Each display belongs to one of the broader categories. If you are interested in one specific category, click on it and the general list of displays will be reduced to only those that pertain to the category you have selected. Learn how to incorporate your own categories.
To the right of the general categories is a list of every country. If, instead of displaying countries/regions, you would like to display groups, simply click on the Using Countries/Regions option on the Flex Packaged Display’s Main Menu. The list at the very bottom of the screen is of the different Run-Result-Files that accompanied your version of the software. If you would like to learn more about specifically what parameters and variables are affected by these Run-Result-Files, simply highlight one and click on the Annotation button.
You are also able to select more than one country or more than one Run-Result-File for graphing. Simply click on one country/region, hold in the control button (ctrl), and click on another country/region. Do the same if you would like to see a graph displaying results as the product of more than one Run-Result-File.
When you have chosen the display you would like to graph and the countries/regions or groups that you would like to display, click on Line Graph or Bar Graph.
Additionally, choose the Display Format option located on the Flex Packaged Display menu. This allows you to more professionally tailor your graphs to your needs. Firstly, you can change the output labels of your graph, the time line, and the currency in that you would like to display. Also, you can tick the "Use all historic data" feature, and the model will provide the most up to date historical data available. The "Use Estimation" option tells the model to extrapolate the historic data to fill in any possible holes that exist.