This is the basic outline of how the Forecasting System works. The system offers many other features and options that you might need to use (for example, the time range of the data used to fit models and how far into the future to forecast). These options will become apparent as you work with the Forecasting System.

As an introductory example, the following sections use the Automatic Model Fitting and Produce Forecasts windows to perform automated forecasting of the series in an example data set.