Cabinet Tour

The cabinet structure manages tree structure relations. At the most general level, information is divided into cabinets represented by the gold bars that sit atop the cabinet structure.

Click any of the areas on the cabinet above to find out more about it and what it does.

Store NEs

Cabinets are opened, and the tree underneath them accessed, by

dragging the into any panel (see left). The cabinet structure has one top panel to hold your top level cabinets, and twelve main panels where you can open cabinets and NEs, allowing you to access your tree structure at twelve points simultaneously. You can drag any cabinet into any panel.

When a top level is dragged into a panel, the name of the cabinet appears atop the panel (e.g., ) and the NEs under it in the tree structure appear in the panel (see left). Each NE can then be dragged into any panel to further expose the tree structure (see right). In each case, the NE or cabinet sitting atop the panel is higher in the tree than the NEs that are in the panel.

Scroll cabinets

A cabinet or NE can have as many NEs under it in the tree structure as you want. When an NE or cabinet that contains more than twelve NEs is opened in a panel, a scroll bar will appear attached to the panel. Use the scroll bar to access hidden NEs or cabinets.

Create a new cabinet or NE, or rename an existing cabinet or an NE

The Create New/Rename ball is used to create new NEs and cabinets (and tiles in front rooms), and to rename NEs and cabinets (and tiles in front rooms).

•	Drag the into any panel to create a new cabinet (top panel) or a new NE (lower twelve panels) there.

•	Drag any NE or cabinet onto the to rename it.

Save, access and delete cabinet configurations.

•	Click to save a configuration (to save this point in time)

•	Click to access or delete a configuration (to view the cabinet in a particular way)

Access your drag-in folder

•	Click the to open the drag-in folder.

Open the NE Tray

The NE Tray allows you to drag NEs and tiles between configurations and from any front room into the cabinet.

Access search engine

Click to search on NEs only by name,

•	Click to open search results, or

•	Click to search on tiles only by name,

View the DNE from the God's eye view or access an NE's big picture

The God's eye view and big picture are two ways to display large amounts of information. The God's eye view allows you to see and reconfigure the entire DNE from one place, while the big picture allows you to see all the information relations for an NE at one time.

•	Drag any NE onto the bottom half to see its big picture.

See an NE's cabinet relations on its parent map or view its location in your tree structure

•	Drag any NE onto the top half of the ball.

•	Drag any NE onto the bottom half of the ball.

Open the DNE Explorer

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Click the

You can save and recall cabinet configurations. Say you need a particular collection of NEs for a particular assignment. Open the NEs you need, and then save the configuration. You can recall all those NEs, in exactly the panels they are in now, at any time. Cabinet configurations are saved and recalled with the ball on top of the cabinet.

Get Help

DNE help is available from the cabinet:

•	Doubleclick the atop the cabinet to play the Flash Help tutorial for the cabinet.

•	Drag the and drop it onto anything for context-sensitive text-based help on that object.

Show or hide outside panels

•	Click the on either side to open or close the outside set of three panels on that side.

Each of the front rooms can be populated from the cabinet, and the association areas for any NE can also be populated from the cabinet. From the cabinet, you can see and access three or four different rooms at the same time. This makes it easy to oversee your work, but it also means that the drop zones for NEs and tools in the rooms are smaller when three or four rooms are displayed than when you are looking at a particular room. The DNE addresses this with its unique cursor set. Although the legal drop zones are small, they seem to be magnified by cursors that clearly indicate and differentiate the drop zones. There are four actions you can perform by dropping an NE onto another, depending where on the NE you drop it. You can: activate the NE, create an affinity or create a contribution relation (either contributing to or receiving contributions by the other NE). The cursor indicates this by displaying a different graphic depending on which area of the NE you are mousing over:

Drop Zone - Activate NE:

Drop Zone - Add to Affinity:

Drop Zone - Add to Contributions By (Left) Wing:

Drop Zone - Add to Contributes To (Right) Wing:

Those four cursors indicate legal drop zones on any NE in a room, from the cabinet. You can also drop a cabinet NE on a spill line or on any visible bench:

Drop Zone - Spill on Spill Line: