This 'Commands and Features' section provides detailed information on DoView's commands and feature as follows:

 

Pages - 'diagrams' on which outcomes models are drawn in DoView. There are two sizes of these compact and large.

Page  sizes - various sized pages you can create.

Objects - of various types which you can put on pages (steps, text, groups, rule-lines, indicators, questions, items).

Toolbar - runs along the top of the screen and includes commonly used commands.

Page list - runs down right-hand side of the screen and provides a list of all the pages in your model.

Details table - runs along the bottom of the screen and its rows are associated with some DoView objects (steps, items etc.)

Steps - boxes which you put on pages which stand for outcomes, causes, effects, outputs, activities etc.

Links - cause effect relationships between steps.

Links and drawn lines - using Link tool to draw line and arrows to show cause and effect relationships between steps.

Views for links and lines - using the View menu to determine which type of links and drawn lines and arrows are shown.

Link lines - arranging - arranging line and arrow links on a page by dragging their link boxes.

Clones - 'live copies' of a steps, groups, indicators, questions, items which are all amended if one is amended.

Page-jump - hyperlink which takes you ('hops' you) to another page (makes it come up in the main page window).

Zoom - zoom to fit makes the page being viewed fit within the area of the main page window and zoom to actual returns it to its actual size.

Pan - lets you move a large page around within the main page window so you can view an area of it.

Drill-down - right-click command from a step which creates a new page containing a clone of the step and sets relevant page-jumps.

Text - text object is a piece of text which can be put on a page and resized to small, medium or large.

Groups - rectangular box drawn around other objects to visually group them.

Rule-line - dashed horizontal line running across a page.

Indicators - indicator icon with a name for identifying ways of measuring steps.

Questions - question icon identifying an evaluation, research or other questions about steps or other objects on a page.

Items - an item icon and a name identifying any other type of entity you want to put on a page (project, person, organization, thing etc.)

Pictures - inserting a picture into a step or onto a page.

Adjust - aligning and resizing objects (steps etc) on a page.

Folders - heading in a page list for organizing pages.

Direction pointer - inserting an arrow to show the direction of the model.

Rows - line in the details table associated with some DoView objects.

Fields - exist within a row for putting different types of information on the associated object (name, description, notes, working notes).

Flag -  orange block of color on the left hand end of a row which you can turn on and off to draw attention to the row and its associated  object.

Rotate - right-click command from a step (or certain other objects) which turns the object on its side.

Show details/fields - allows one field at a time from a row in the details table to be displayed on a page under its associated object.

Copying pages - copying pages for pasting within DoView or for pasting to outside software.

Pages, copying between models - copying and pasting pages between DoView files.

Model/file - the name for all of the pages in a DoView file.

Multiple instances of DoView - having more than one instance of DoView running at a time.

Printing as PDF  - how to print pages and their details table information to a PDF file for emailing or printing out a model.

Import-Export - options for getting information in and out of DoView.

Web page models (creating) - how to create a web page model of all of the pages (pages) in a DoView model for putting up on an intranet or the internet.

Web page models (using) - how to use a web page model when viewing it in a browser on an intranet or the internet.

Hyperlinks (inserting) - how to insert hyperlinks onto a page (page).