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Reading Articles

New 7.11

Every reader tool below works the same way regardless of document type — whether you're reading an Article, a Snippet, a Template, or a Document Profile.

  • ✅ Jump straight to any heading with a pinnable Table of Contents
  • ✅ See everything a document uses and everything that uses it
  • ✅ Spot a missing or deleted reference before it becomes a support ticket
  • ✅ Know the impact of a change before you make it

Understanding the Reader Toolbox

graph TD Document[fa:fa-file Document being read] TOC[fa:fa-list Table of Contents] Relationships[fa:fa-diagram-project Relationships Panel] Map[fa:fa-share-nodes Relationship Map] RefExplorer[fa:fa-magnifying-glass Reference Explorer] Print[fa:fa-print Print] Document --> TOC Document --> Relationships Document --> Map Document --> RefExplorer Document --> Print

The reader toolbox sits alongside any Article, Snippet, Template, or Document Profile you open to read.

Table of Contents Toolbox

Collapsed by default; open it on demand. Pin it to keep it open — the pinned state is remembered per browser. While you scroll, it highlights the current heading, and clicking any entry jumps straight there.

Table of Contents toolbox pinned open alongside a document, highlighting the current heading (7.11)
Example of the pinned Table of Contents toolbox.

Relationships Panel

Lists what the document uses and what it is used by:

Direction Shows
Uses The Snippets it includes; its Document Profile, and the Snippets that profile's Parts use; its Source Template
Referenced by Related Resources, Categories, Applications, and C4 diagrams

Deleted related documents are still listed and marked, so a broken relationship stays visible instead of silently disappearing.

Relationships panel showing included Snippets, Document Profile, Source Template, and related entities (7.11)
Example of the Relationships panel for a profile-based Article.

Relationship Map

A Mermaid diagram of the same relationships, in your choice of tree, flowchart, or graph mode. For the same relationships across the whole Repository, open the document in Mapify.

Relationship Map in flowchart mode showing a document's connections (7.11)
Example of the Relationship Map in flowchart mode.

Reference Explorer and Linked-Content Issues

A filterable list of every image, file, Snippet, and Article reference in the document, each marked resolved, missing, deleted, or wrong type — with an issue count so a broken reference is never buried in a long document.

Reference Explorer listing resolved, missing, and deleted references with an issue count (7.11)
Example of the Reference Explorer flagging a missing reference.

Tip

While editing, the reference health banner checks the same {nds}/, {ndi}/, {ndf}/, {nda}/, and custom-icon {ndx}/custom/ references live, as you type. Font Awesome, Azure, and Mermaid icons ship with Nodinite, so their {ndx} references are never flagged. It's a warning, not a save blocker — the Reference Explorer above is where you go afterward to see the full picture and fix things.

Dependency Impact

For a Snippet, Template, or Document Profile, the reader shows every document that depends on it — so the effect of a change is visible before you make it, not after.

Print

Print the document directly from the reader.

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