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.