Managing Options


You can add a new option just by clicking the "Add New Option" button as shown in the following panel. Right-mouse-click on the panel to bring the context menu. You will find the Edit, Delete or Disable option in the context menu. 


AHP Software left vertical Options panel with the 'Add New Option' button and the right-click context menu exposing Edit, Delete, and Disable commands for managing alternatives.


Editing Option Name

Just double click on the option name on this vertical menu bar and you will see the editable textbox for editing the option name.

AHP Software Options panel with an option double-clicked into an inline editable textbox so the user can rename the alternative without leaving the page.

Deleting an option

As you can see from the right mouse click context menu, there is a "Delete" option. Click that menu to delete. Or you can select the option in the left vertical menu bar and hit the DELETE key from your keyboard.


Adding a new option

As you can see the "Add New Option" button in the left vertical menu bar, you can click that button to add a new option. Once you click that button you will see the following user interface.

AHP Software wizard panel shown after 'Add New Option' is clicked, allowing several new options to be entered in one go before clicking Finish.

Add as many new options as you want from this panel. Once you are done, click the "Finish" button. Once you click the Finish button, you will see the wizard will bring all the pairwise comparisons needed to be performed because you added the new options.

AHP Software pairwise comparison wizard listing the additional comparisons needed against the newly added option before the model can be recalculated.

Then you can click "Next" to complete all the other comparisons and finally, you will see your new option is added in the model and all calculations will be updated based on this change.

Please note that, if you previously selected the "Matrix view" then in this stage, you won't see the pairwise comparison view, rather you will see the matrix view, as shown below.

AHP Software pairwise comparison matrix view loaded after adding a new option (when Matrix view was previously enabled), letting the user fill in all new comparisons in a single grid.
Last updated on Jan 7, 2026