Row

A row in RollupCalc is similar to a row in a spreadsheet application where the row represents one or more horizontal cells.  Unlike a spreadsheet application, a row in RollupCalc can be nested inside of another rows allowing lower-level row quantities and amounts to "rollup" to it's parent rows.

This rollup feature provides a level of summarization beyond a traditional spreadsheet.  By utilizing nested data, real-world scenarios can be modeled in RollupCalc.

Examples of real-world scenarios are:

  • A project structure (work breakdown structure) that has high-level tasks with each high-level tasks having their own subtasks and those subtasks having their own subtasks.
  • An organization with top-level business groups that are made up of lower-level departments with each department having multiple teams.
  • A proposal that involves multiple scopes of work each being managed by different proposal managers.

Complex structures like this show up everywhere and, before RollupCalc, were difficult to model and manage.