Copying and moving text around

In Logframer, you can copy or move text in the following ways:

Cutting, copying and pasting text

Cut, copy and paste text

You can cut, copy and paste text within a cell of the logframe, using these buttons in the Main toolbar.

  1. Click on the cell that contains the text you want to cut or copy. The cell will be marked by the red selection rectangle.
  2. Click and drag to select the words that you want to cut or copy.
  3. Click on the Copy button (or press <Ctrl> + <C>), or on the Cut button (or <Ctrl> + <X>)
  4. Select the spot where you want to paste the text
  5. Press the Paste button (or <Ctrl> + <V>)

Select text to copy

You can select and cut, copy or paste text in the same way in the Details window.

This way, you can also move or copy text between Logframer and other applications such as Microsoft Word™. However, if you want to copy a lot of text from a logical framework that you’ve made in Excel to Logframer, you’re probably better off using the Import function.

Copying and moving cells within the logframe

Using the right mouse button, you can copy or move one or more cells within the logframe.

To move one or more cells:

  • Select a cell by left-clicking on it. Alternatively, you can select multiple cells by dragging your mouse while keeping the left mouse button depressed, until all the cells you want to move are marked by the red selection rectangle.
  • Right-click anywhere within the red selection rectangle and while keeping the right mouse button depressed, drag towards the place you want to paste the cells. You will see a green indicator line to show you where the cells will be pasted when you release the right mouse button.
  • Release the right mouse button to paste the cells.

To copy one or more cells:

  • Follow the same procedure, but keep the <Ctrl> button on your keyboard depressed to copy the cells instead of moving them.
Select and move a verification source         Paste the verification source you want to copy

 

 

Referential integrity while moving or copying cells

When you’re moving or copying, you’re not just displacing some cells like you would in a spreadsheet. As we’ve explained earlier, the different items in the logical framework are linked to each other. Logframer will manage these relations for you when you copy or move.

For instance, when you copy/move an indicator to another location within the indicator column, Logframer will copy/move its verification sources with it. However, when you move or copy an indicator to another column, Logframer will only move/copy the text of the indicator to that new place. The verification sources will remain where they were, and instead of the old indicator text, you will see ‘{indicator}’ in that cell.

  • When you move/copy an item within the same column, for instance an indicator from the first goal to the indicator column of output number three, Logframer will move/copy the item including it’s horizontal children:
    • An indicator will be copied with its verification sources
    • A goal, purpose, output or activity will be copied with its indicators (and their verification sources), and its assumptions.
  • When you move/copy an item from one column to the other, only the text of the item will be moved to the new column. The horizontal dependencies will remain in place and a placeholder text will appear (for instance ‘{indicator}’)
  • Vertical dependencies:
    • When you move a purpose that has outputs to another section (the goals, the outputs or the activities section), Logframer will leave its outputs and activities in place and display ‘{purpose}’ where its text used to be.
    • When you move an output that has activities to another section (the goals, the purposes or the activities section), Logframer will leave its activities in place and display ‘{output}’ where its text used to be.

 

Changing the order of items in the Details window (moving items)

Note: the following feature is only available in version 1.1 of Logframer

When you create an indicator, you have the possibility to formulate a number of responses or sub-indicators in the Details window. Similarly, you can detail a resource with a number of items and their respective cost.

It is possible that at a later stage you would like to change the order in which these items are appearing. You can do so by using the right mouse button, just like you would in the logical framework. Just press the right mouse button on the item you would like to move, and drag it to the new location. A green indicator line will show you were the item will be inserted when you release the right mouse button.

Moving a response to another location

Copying responses from one indicator to the other

If you want to copy a response from one indicator to another indicator, select the response in question by clicking on the row header:

How to copy a response

Next in the Main menu bar, select Edit → Copy response item, or press <Ctrl><Shift><C>.

Then in your logframe, click on the other indicator. Select the detail window again by clicking on any of the responses. Then go back to the Menu bar and click on Edit → Paste response item, or press <Ctrl><Shift><V>. The response will be added to the end of the list of responses of that indicator.

Copying the response structure of one indicator to another

Let's say you've defined an indicator with a complex structure. In the example below, we see a number of sub-indicators. The response structure is that of a multiple choice question, with five columns or classes.

Copy the response structure of an indicator

This response structure may be interesting for another indicator, but you may not want to copy the sub-indicators and their targets. So instead of copying the whole indicator with all its responses, in this case you can copy the response structure (the five columns between the Label and Target columns) to another indicator.

Steps:

  • Click on the first indicator, that has the response structure you want to copy.
  • Go to Edit → Copy structure of responses in the Menu bar, or press <Ctrl><Alt><C>.
  • Click on the other indicator
  • Go to Edit → Paste structure of responses in the Menu bar, or press <Ctrl><Alt><V>.

The response structure is pasted to another indicator

You can see that the response structure has been copied, but none of the actual responses.

Note that this action also changes the question type. If the question type of the second indicator was set to Open ended question before, it will change to multiple choice question after you paste.