When you install Logframer for the first time, you will probably already have a whole collection of existing projects and programmes. But if you want to use Logframer for an existing project, does it mean you have to re-enter all that information?
No, you don't have to re-do all that work. Logframer allows you to import existing logical frameworks and budgets. You can import:
If you have logframes or budgets made in other applications, the easiest way to import them is to save the documents as MS Excel documents, or to copy and paste tables to a MS Excel document. The next step is then to import this workbook into Logframer.
Before you start importing a logical framework made in Microsoft Word, there are some preparations to be made:
To import a logframe from a MS Word document:
Step 1: select the Word document that contains the logframe
Step 2: select the table that contains the logframe
Step 3: indicate which columns contain objectives, indicators, verification sources and assumptions
Step 4: indicate the rows that contain the goals, purposes, outputs and activities
Note that you are not obliged to import all sections. If you leave the start row and final row of a section empty, Logframer will skip that section during the import.
When the process is finished, you will probably need to do some re-ordering. By default, Logframer places all the outputs under the first purpose and all the activities under the first output. Also, no distinction is made between main activities and sub-activities.
Please refer to the articles about moving logframe items and managing different levels of activities and indicators to finalise your logical framework.
Before you start importing a logical framework made in Microsoft Excel, there are some preparations to be made:
To import a logframe from a MS Excel document:
Step 1: select the Excel workbook that contains the logframe
Step 2: select the worksheet that contains the logframe
Step 3: indicate which columns contain objectives, indicators, verification sources and assumptions
Step 4: indicate the rows that contain the goals, purposes, outputs and activities
Note that you are not obliged to import all sections. If you leave the start row and final row of a section empty, Logframer will skip that section during the import.
When the process is finished, you will probably need to do some re-ordering. By default, Logframer places all the outputs under the first purpose and all the activities under the first output. Also, no distinction is made between main activities and sub-activities.
Please refer to the articles about moving logframe items and managing different levels of activities and indicators to finalise your logical framework.
Logframer can import budgets from a single worksheet. This means that you can't import a whole multi-year budget. You can however import the Totals page of your budget and then (after clearing up) click on the Multi-year budget button in the Budget Lay-out toolbar. Then you can add the items of each budget year manually below the common headers.
Before you start importing a budget made in Microsoft Excel, there are some preparations to be made:
To import a budget from a MS Excel document:
Step 1: select the Excel workbook that contains the budget
Step 2: select the worksheet that contains the budget
Step 3: indicate which columns contain the description, duration, number, unit cost and total cost of each item
You are not obliged to fill out any column except the description and total cost columns.
Step 4: indicate the rows that actually contain the budget
When the process is finished, you will probably need to clean up the budget, because no distinction is made between budget items and budget headers. So you need to level down the items that belong to a certain budget header.
Please refer to the articles about moving and managing different levels of budget items to finalise your budget.