Hyperview Browser 
DBDOC's Hyperview browser is a safe, read-only interface to DBDOC's snapshot of your system graphics and configuration. You can search, trace connections, view live data directly on documents, and much more.
Guide for New users
Most DBDOC users have no formal training with our software. Here's an overview of the Hyperview learning resources we recommend for new Hyperview users.
- Interactive Tutorials: Use the tutorials to learn how to use Hyperview's main features, including navigation, searching, and live data and trending.
- DBDOC User Guide: The Hyperview Browser User Guide is a walk-through guide to Hyperview's main features. This manual is used in the Hyperview Workshop training course.
- Online Help: The same documentation available as the build-in Hyperview application help is also available online.
Hyperview Tutorials
- Navigation and Signal Tracing: Panes and Focus, The Index Pane, The Content (Topic) Pane, Zooming, Bookmarks, Signal Tracing.
- Searching: Full Text Search, Database Search, Topic Title Search, Search Navigation, Finding Coordinates.
- Live Data: Live Data on Documents, Live Loop Annotations.
- Watch Window Trend Plots: Managing Blocks and Groups, Managing Data Display and Timestamps, Exporting Data and Printing, Managing Data Resources, Using the Navigation Plot and Data Run Markers.
- Advanced Tutorials: If you have a solid grounding and wish to learn more, you can choose from our advanced tutorials.
Hyperview Help
DBDOC organises all your INFI 90 documents into a single package to give you fast, easy, read-only access to the information you need to do your job. Using DBDOC's Hyperview browser, you can browse this representation of your system, search, trace connections, and even view live data.
This documentation will provide you with detailed information about all of Hyperview's capabilities.
- Running Hyperview – Launching Hyperview: from the command line, a shortcut, or even a batch file.
- Managing Project Files and Locating Original Documents – Loading the system snapshot, importing project data files if your project has been renamed, automatically loading the most recent project file.
- Basic Hyperview Browser Functionality – Browsing, using bookmarks & history, printing and getting help.
- Panes and Hotspots – Understanding panes in the browser, using the index and content panes, using and highlighting hotspots.
- Reviewing project error messages in the Error Browser – Viewing error messages, locating their sources, and marking them dealt with.
- Navigation and Signal Tracing in Hyperview – Tracing signals, browsing through indexes, searching text, databases, or topic titles, zooming, and finding coordinates.
- Live data in Hyperview – Viewing live data for any block directly on graphics, CAD/CLD diagrams and other documents.
- Trending live data for blocks in the Watch Window – Plotting and logging data for groups of blocks in the Watch Window, saving and exporting data to other applications.
- Text Annotations – Putting "sticky-notes" on documents.
- Customizing the Browser Display – Displaying specs, attributes, tag names, and controlling details of color, fonts, and other display options.
- Special Pages and Indexes – Understanding the wide variety of reports and indexes automatically generated by DBDOC.
- Hyperview Tools and Windows – Using Hyperview tools such as the Audit Window, Cross Reference Window, and Watch Window.
Hyperview in a Browser
DBDOC's Hyperview browser can now be set up as a server that can in turn be access on your local network using a normal web browser, allowing access to DBDOC's snapshot of your system without the need to run any software on user devices other than a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, etc). This is aimed especially at support for touchscreen tablets, and could be useful anywhere that running a Windows program is undesirable or impossible.
- Setting up a Hyperview Service – configuring a Hyperview service to serve a dbdoc file
- Managing user accounts – creating and managing accounts for users of Hyperview in a Browser
- Using Hyperview in a Browser – documentation for the navigation, search, and live data capabilities of Hyperview in a Browser