| Training Notes - More Techniques |
Techniques will be gradually introduced into these notes as and when they are needed.
Some more will be introduced now :-
Other Techniques - Right Click Menus Viewing the Data
Daisy and the Mouse
Daisy is a very 'mouse-centric' program. As well as it's normal use in menus and dialogs, the mouse can also be used to adjust fonts and numeric values, through little up-down controls. Shown is the Node Limit dialog, which has five up-downs to adjust the various limits.
But it is in the application of the mouse to investigating the Daisy Chart, that it is used most often :-
To zoom a Daisy Chart with the mouse, select the top left corner of the area to be selected with the left mouse button. Then drag the mouse, with the button still depressed to select the area to be investigated. The area will be shown dotted.
Once the mouse button is released the Daisy Chart will be re-drawn.
This process can be repeated as many times as required until the correct area has been selected.
Use the Redraw Full Size command in the Draw menu to return the Daisy Chart to the original full size image.
In the Daisy Chart shown below, the node, Tuesday, has been clicked, which brings up the small investigation window at the top right.
The Records button in the small window has been clicked to view the records associated with that node.
Note :-
The data can also be displayed using Microsoft Excel in most versions of Daisy. See Link to Excel or Section 9 of the Daisy Manual for more details.
Selecting Nodes for Menu Commands
Daisy has the facility to select more than one Node at one time.
The preferred way to perform complicated selections on a Daisy Chart is to use the Point and Click selection from the View menu.
Note that this selection can also be called by using Control-R.
The figure shows the selection of Records on a Tuesday or Wednesday, which have an Hour of 15 or 16. The selection rule is that nodes in the same mapping field are 'or'ed, whilst those in different ones are 'and'ed.
To actually perform the selection, you just click anywhere else on the background of the Daisy Chart.
See Investigating under Techniques or Section 6 of the Daisy Manual for more details on what has been discussed here.
Exercise - Investigate Daisy Chart
Run Daisy and open any database and draw a simple Daisy Chart.
Use the techniques described in this section to view selected records.
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