DBDOC Interactive Tutorials

• Introductory Tutorials: Getting Started with Hyperview
• Advanced Tutorials: Getting More out of Hyperview

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Introductory Tutorials: Getting started with Hyperview

This set of tutorials is designed to introduce you to Hyperview's main features. By working through them, you will gain a basic understanding of system navigation and signal tracing using Hyperview, the DBDOC browser, how to search your system in various ways, and how display live system data on documents and graphics, as well as plot live data from any block in your system.

Navigation and Signal Tracing

• Panes and Focus in Hyperview — An overview of the DBDOC browser, how information is presented in "panes", and how to switch focus from one pane to another.
• The Index Pane — An introduction to different ways of displaying the Table of Contents, and how to display topics and indexes by clicking on hotspots in the index pane.
• The Content (Topic) Pane — An introduction to the use of hotspots. Use hotspots to display the uses of any value, and how to follow links to other documents.
• Zooming in Hyperview — An overview of various ways of zooming in Hyperview.
• Bookmarks in Hyperview — A quick lesson on how to create and manage bookmarks in Hyperview.
• Signal Tracing in Hyperview — A crash course in tracing signals using Hyperview. Learn how to trace a signal right to the source using only double-clicks, and how to display and jump to any use of a value.

Searching

• Full Text Search — An overview to different ways of searching all the text in your system, even on graphics, for words or phrases.
• Database Search — An introduction to searching for blocks based on database attributes such as tag name or description text.
• Topic Title Search — How to use the Topic Title Search to interactively narrow in on a document of interest.
• Search Navigation — Techniques for navigating search result topics and search hits from a past search without opening the Search dialog.
• Finding Coordinates — Methods for finding exact coordinates on graphics or CAD/CLDs to, for example, locate problem areas identified in build error reports.

Live Data and Trending in Hyperview

• Live Data on Documents — An overview of how to use Hyperview's efficient and fully integrated live data display on documents.
• Live Loop Annotations — Instructions for how to monitor data from a relevant block anywhere in your system on a convenient graphic or configuration diagram.
• Watch Window - Managing Blocks and Groups — Introduction to the basic of Hyperview's trending tool. Learn how to monitor and log data from groups of blocks from anywhere in your system.
• Watch Window - Managing Data Display and Timestamps — An overview of how to configure the display of Watch Window plots to suit your needs.
• Watch Window - Exporting Data and Printing — Instructions for printing Watch Window plots, and exporting data to other applications such as spreadsheets.
• Watch Window - Managing Data Resources — Techniques such as setting automatic timeouts for managing the bandwidth and disk space used by live data collection and logging.
• Watch Window - Using the Navigation Plot and Data Run Markers to Navigate — An overview of how to use the Navigation Plot and Data Run Markers to easily navigate the Watch Window plots.

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Advanced Tutorials: Getting more out of Hyperview

This set of tutorials covers some of DBDOC's more advanced features and tools. After working through them, you will be able to take even more advantage of the powerful capabilities DBDOC provides you.

Error Browser

• Error Browser - Basic Uses — An introduction to the Error Browser and how to use it to examine error messages and locate sources of errors in the graphics and configuration.
• Error Browser - Reviewing, Starring, and Hiding Errors — Instructions for marking errors in the error tree as starred to indicate that they need attention, reviewed to indicate that they have been examined, or hidden to indicate that they are unimportant in your context.
• Error Browser - Filtering, Grouping, and Sorting — Convenient ways to filter and organize the error messages in the error tree to allow you to easily identify errors of interest.
• Error Browser - Exporting Error Reports — An overview of exporting selected errors to a text format error report.
• Error Browser - Sharing Error Data — How to share your stars and checks with other Hyperview users, and selectively display their stars and checks in your Error Browser.

Making Notes on Documents

• Text Annotations — How to add text "sticky notes" anywhere in your system.
• Managing Annotations — How to find and manage text and live loop annotations.

Printing From Hyperview

• Printing Documents From Hyperview — All about printing documents from Hyperview.
• Marking Topics for Printing — Time-saving techniques for printing multiple documents or categories of documents.
• Batch Printing — Printing multiple documents to PDF without user interaction.

Adapt Blocks, F(x) Graphs, Specs, and Attributes

• F(x) Graphs in Hyperview — How to display live F(x) graphics for Function Code 1's directly on documents.
• Adapt Blocks — Overview of how Hyperview displays Adapt Blocks, with live adapted spec values shown right next to the adapted block.
• Specs and Attributes — Showing and hiding specs, tagnames and attributes on graphics and CAD/CLDs.
• Live Specs — Viewing Live Specifications of Function Blocks

Tools, Reports and Special Pages

• The Audit Window — A quick lesson on how to use the powerful Audit Window tool to get an overview of all resources used on a document.
• The Graphical Block Map — Overview of the Graphical Block Map, a visual representation of the usage of all the blocks on your system.
• The Tag Index — An introduction to the Tag Index, and how to use it to identify absent or mismatched tags in multiple databases.
• The Graphical Cross Reference Window — An overview of the Graphical Cross Reference tool, and how to use it to understand how and where graphics link to each other.

Sharing User Data with Other Hyperview Users

• User Data Sharing — An introduction to sharing bookmarks and stars and checks in the Error Browser "live" among Hyperview users.

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