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The Flowchart Panel is something that I use quite a bit because it's a fast way to make quick connections between menu elements and the components in your DVD. Let me go ahead and maximize this guy by choosing Maximize Frame in this little arrow here in the upper right-hand corner and let's see what we have here. Up in the this main window we have our linking to buttons and to our project and down here under this line we have orphaned items that are not linked to anything. So if we want to make connections with, like, a button for example, let's say we have a button on this menu that we want to have linked to one of these guys, you can click on the button and drag it right to the component like so. It then moves out of the orphan area and winds up in the Flowchart Area. This is really handy if you have a couple of different menus that you want to experiment with as well. For example, I currently have this menu set as First Play. I don't want that so I'm going to click and drag it to this menu. So now this menu is orphaned but it's still linked to something else with the little blue arrow that we're looking at. So of course I would take that now and click up here and drag the button to the component and now it's linked to that as well. So after a little getting used to, you understand how this works. Once again, down here, nothing is linked to any buttons and up here you have your connections. If you want to rearrange some of these things, you can use the move tool and you can simply click on something and hold your mouse down, move it around. It's a really good idea to do this once in a while when you want to just see more clearly what's happening inside of your project. Let me go ahead and move this. I can also right click in the blank space and choose Auto Layout and it will kind of neaten it up for me and make a better organizational flow than having it as a gigantic mess. I can right click again and I can also import elements here as well. How cool is that? I can create new components and I can import things and I can even preview. So you can do a lot of things right from the Flowchart itself. But mostly what you're going to do, nine times out of ten, is you're going to have a menu and you're going to have some links that you're going associate with components in Assets. So I can click on Chapter 2, let me grab the right tool. Once again, these arrows can be confusing. One of the best ways, by the way, to figure out which arrow to use is to literally look at the base of it. As you see here, I have a little Move icon under this one. When I click on this guy here, the Selection Tool, I have a little pickwhip icon, a really easy way to realize what this does. So now I can take the pickwhip, drag that there, take Chapter 3, drag that over there, Chapter 4, drag that there and so on and get everybody out of the orphan area and into a home in the Flowchart. Once again, I can right click, Auto Layout and then I can just try to find it and see how it organizes everything for me. So that is what the Flowchart will do for you. A nice way to have an interactive approach to linking your assets to your menus and also a nice, compact viewing area to see right away what objects are not being used inside of your production. Let me go ahead and restore this frame size. And that is what the Flowchart Panel will do for you.