The Logical Framework (Log Frame) describes the chain of results within the Portfolio. Delta supports the commonly used chain (Activities, Results/Outputs, Outcomes, Impact/Goals) as well as up to six additional user-defined levels. All labels in the log frame can be edited to conform to your own nomenclature and terminology. NOTE: regardless of the labels you use, Delta will handle the end points of each branch of a log frame as an activity.

Depending on how you intend to use the system, you may not have to set up a Portfolio-level log frame. One specific use for the Portfolio-level log frame are to support the use of cross-cutting activities and cross-cutting indicators. Since activities and indicators are log frame elements, and cross-cutting activities and indicators are created at the Portfolio level and informed at the Project level, the Portfolio must contain a log frame.

Another circumstance in which you will need to create a portfolio-level log frame is if you plan on creating indicators at the Portfolio level in order to track composite indicators. For example, you may base portfolio-level indicators on project indicators, either directly or by using a project indicator for calculating the portfolio-level indicator.

These considerations aside, the Portfolio-level log frame functions in a similar fashion to the project-level log frame. The related articles are:

• Creating Templates
• Coding a Log Frame
• Configuring a Log Frame
• Using Activity Weights
• Creating a Log Frame Manually
• Importing a Log Frame
• Editing a Log Frame

Detailed information on cross-cutting activities and cross-cutting indicators can be found here:

• Cross-Cutting Activities
• Cross-Cutting Indicators

Note also that you may not need to use the full set of functionalities in this section of the Portfolio Settings module, depending on how you intend to use it.

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