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Trees: many, not one

Know that a tenant holds several trees, and find the one you need.

Several tabs, holding wildly different amounts of work.

Digital Twin → Driver Tree opens on a row of tabs, each carrying a node count in brackets — a tenant may hold one tree at 209 nodes alongside two others still at zero. A summary at the top right ("3 trees") counts them. So "the driver tree" is really whichever one is largest and most maintained, not the only one that exists.

Beside the tree name, a line reads something like "Edited 62d ago · +47 nodes, +41 edges" — a running diff against a prior state, which is a fast way to see whether a tree has grown since you last opened it without reading every node.

+ Add Tree creates a new one, up to a cap on how many a tenant can hold. Delete Tree, in the second toolbar row, does confirm: it opens a dialog stating plainly that this will permanently delete the tree along with its exact node and connection counts. The one thing it won't let you do is delete the last tree standing — a tenant must always keep at least one.

Views, beside the tree name, saves the current toolbar and layout state under a name you choose, so a colleague can recall the same read later rather than rebuilding it by hand.

Inspect, in the second toolbar row, runs a health check across the whole tree — flagging suspicious names, orphaned nodes, or duplicates rather than analysing any one node's numbers.

The full Driver Tree toolbar: tree tabs with node counts, a Views control, month navigation, an edit summary reading plus 47 nodes plus 41 edges, Actual Plan Forecast and VAR checkboxes, Default Focus and Impact view modes, Variance and Direction toggles, Confidence and Sparklines, Add Node, Add Formula and Generate via AI, and a second row with Propagate, Auto-layout, Inspect, Search, a layout-orientation toggle, Calibrate and Delete Tree.
  1. 1Tree tabs, each with its node count, and the tenant's total tree count at the right
  2. 2Views, and the month navigation with its edit summary
  3. 3Data layers — Actual, Plan, Forecast, VAR
  4. 4View modes — Default, Focus, Impact — here set to Impact
  5. 5Card colouring — Variance and Direction are one toggle, only one active at a time; Confidence and Sparklines are separate overlays
  6. 6Add Node, Add Formula, Generate via AI
  7. 7Propagate, Auto-layout, Inspect, Search, the orientation toggle, Calibrate, Delete Tree

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Takeaways

  • A tenant holds several trees, distinguished by tab and node count.

  • + Add Tree and Delete Tree create and remove a whole tree — Delete Tree does confirm, and a tenant can never be left with zero trees.

  • Views saves the toolbar and layout state under a name; Inspect is a tree-wide health check for suspicious names, orphans and duplicates.

Surfaces covered

  • Tree tabs with node counts
  • Add Tree
  • Delete Tree
  • Views ◐
  • Edit summary

Also taught in the Academy

Module 7 · Digital Twin: the Driver Tree

Take it as lesson 7.3 in Business Analyst & FP&A