Overview in 12 slides
1. The first slide gives an impression what NA Builder can do. Also, it introduces the architecture: it is an Excel workbook generated by VBA code. Whatever Excel structure is "built" with the application can be saved in separate "settings" workbooks. Data can be imported from other Excel workbooks or (through "normalized lists") from databases.
2. The next slide gives an overview of the "abstract" objects which can be "built" in the application.
3. The following slide shows the sheets in the application. There are the 21 application or system sheets in which the various abstract objects are built and any number of framework sheets (10 in this example) which the abstract design will generate.
4. The following slide shows one of the 21 sheets: the "switchboard" from which many of the designing and building activities can be initiated.
5. This slide is on the 4-dimensional data model of NA Builder: sheet code, partition code, row code, column code
6. The next slide shows a possible database architecture accomodating the NA Builder data model, as implemented in the Access database back-end.
7. The next slide gives an example how NA Builder can be used in a small team.
8. This slide shows how different datasets from team members can be consolidated in a "master" dataset by the team administrator.
9. The next slide is on rules and scripts, which provide the tools for carrying out automated tasks.
10. This slide is on security issues.
11. This slide illustrates some of the uses of NA Builder
12. This last slide summarizes the design priciples behind NA Builder
