Decision summaries in what-if analysis spreadsheets

We are testing what-if analysis spreadsheets and we love it.
We have an interesting puzzle. In one test, we have 100 source attributes and another 50 attributes derived from the rules.
The rules execute and return monetary values. Everything works as advertised.
However, we want to discover which source attributes were really the key factors in the decision as we look at the spreadsheet. Ideally, we would like to be able to produce 2 additional summary columns in Excel. One summary column would tell us that attributes A, C, and D increased the monetary amount. The other column would tell us that attributes B, E, and F decreased the monetary amount.
At the moment, the only thing I can think of doing is some complex formulas / reports in Excel itself combined with OPA rules. This is less than ideal.
I can put logic in OPA, but I am basically trying to recreate my own summary decision report and I still have the problem of concatenating text to create the summaries. I am not sure how to concatenate text into a running description. For instance, I can't put a rule that concatenates text: txtPositiveKeyFactor = txtPositiveKeyFactor & "The age column was a major positive factor", etc... ...or can I?
Any thoughts?
BTW, 2nd question: how do you put a carriage return / line feed into a text attribute in OPA?
Edited by: Paul Fowler on Aug 3, 2012 6:21 AM

To tell whether or not an attribute increased or decreased the overall value, you'll definitely need to create additional goal attributes for those things. E.g. attribute increased the outcome if...
You could then have each of these as additional outcomes, and use Excel to create the concatenated text in an additional (non OPA-populated) column.
As for your second question, I'm not sure that OPA actually supports CRLF in a text attribute - but I could be wrong.
Davin

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