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Steps are boxes which are one of the several types of objects which can be put onto a DoView page. They can be used to stand for causes or effects (outcomes, outputs, activities, tasks, key drivers etc) which are put into outcomes models at various levels. One of the great things about DoView is that it is generic, it lets you work with steps which may be called by different names in your particular outcomes system, but it does not 'hard-wire' in any particular terminology.
A step is put on a page by:
| • | Double clicking on any blank area of a page, or |
| • | Clicking on the Step tool in the toolbar and then clicking on the place on the page where you want the step to go, or |
| • | Going to a blank area of the page and doing a Right-click > Step |
| • | Pushing Alt 1 |
| • | For rapid step entry, by selecting a step, holding down Ctrl and pushing one of the four arrow keys. This will create a new step in the direction of the arrow key each time you push it, or |
| • | Copying an existing step (Right-click > Copy) and pasting it (going to a blank area of the page and doing a Right-click > Paste). |
You can change the shape of a step by: dragging the small green squares in the four corners.
Steps have rows associated with them in the details table as shown below:
A step can also be pasted as a clone - a 'live copy' with a shadow of the step down one side as below (Right-click>Copy then Right-click>Paste as clone where you want it). The name, details table information and links of a step's other clones (if it has any) are updated whenever these aspects of step change step is updated. The shape, size and color of clones of the same step can be differ.
Inserting a picture into a step
You can insert a picture into a step by:
| • | Pasting it in from the clipboard. |
| • | selecting (or creating) the step into which you are wanting to put a picture and then doing a Right-click > Picture > Choose Picture and choosing the picture you wish to insert. |
Do not infringe copyright, make sure you have the right to include any picture you put in a model.
When adding a picture to a step you can choose how your picture will appear. The three options are:
| • | Standard shape - this is a shape optimized for appearing in a rectangular step |
| • | Cropped border - this uses the standard shape and crops and slightly zooms the picture, making the central detail easier to see |
| • | Original shape - this keeps the original shape of the picture. |
When inserting the picture, you can decide whether or not you want to include a larger copy of the picture in the file - so that you can enlarge it if you wish when viewing the model (e.g. to make a point to your audience). If included the larger version of the picture will also be available in any web page version of the models you create when a user clicks on the picture in the web page model. If you do not want to include the picture just check the box Reduce file size; do not include a larger copy in this step's details.
To see a large version of the picture at any time do a Right-mouse click > Show enlarged picture. In a web page version of a model when you click on a the picture within a step, it will be enlarged.
Positioning the picture within the step
The position of the picture within a step is firstly determined by the model direction mode when the picture is first inserted into the step. When DoView is in a Bottom-to-Top model direction mode, pictures are inserted in a step to the right of the text in the step. When in the Left-to-Right model direction mode, pictures are inserted into a step above the text. The position of a picture within a step can be changed at any time by a Right-mouse click > Picture > Position.
Hiding a picture in a clone
If you are working with a clone of a step which has a picture in it, you can hide the picture with a Right-mouse click > Picture > Hide Picture just in that clone version (the picture can still appear in other clones and can be turned on again if you wish in this clone.
Deleting a picture
You can delete a picture at any time from a step with a Right-mouse click > Picture > Delete picture. This will delete also permanently delete it from any clones of that step which exist.