Analyst's Notebook 7 User Guide: Creating Charts - ISS Africa ...

Representing Happenings Using Event Frames
Representing Happenings Using Event Frames 1.3
Entities can represent, for example, individuals, locations, organizations or objects.
When you start building your chart, you select an entity type (such as Male,
Female) from a palette and drag it onto the chart. When you add it to the chart the
entity type becomes an entity, for example:
You can define your own entity types in charts and palettes, as you add information
to the chart.
There are several representations of an entity in Analyst’s Notebook:
• Icons
• Boxes
• Circles
• OLE objects
• Text blocks
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Entity
(on chart)
• Event frames
• Theme lines
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Drag an entity type
from the palette
and drop it onto
the chart,
it becomes an
entity
An event frame can be used to represent a happening, typically something that
took place at a moment in time.
You can display all of the information that you added to an event frame or just parts
of the information that is useful for your particular chart.
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Entity Type
(in palette)