DBDOC Interactive Tutorials

DBDOC Interactive Tutorials


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


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

Making Notes on Documents

Printing From Hyperview

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.