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Screens use Backed's default words. If your organisation has renamed any of them under
`Settings > Organisation > Terminology`, you see your own words instead.

## Outcomes frameworks

`Settings > Outcomes frameworks` is new. Build a framework of domains, the outcomes under each and
the indicators under each outcome, each with a unit (`Number`, `Currency`, `Percentage` or
`People`) and a direction. Select `Activate` when it is ready. Editing an active framework creates
its next version as a draft, so nothing already collected changes, and every figure says which
version it belongs to.

Attach a framework to a Grant in the new `Framework` panel on the Grant's `Details` page, with a
baseline and target for the whole Grant. See
[Outcomes frameworks](/administrator/milestones/outcomes-frameworks).

## Bind to indicator

On a Milestone template, the `Bind to indicator` panel ties a Number or Currency deliverable to an
indicator. The grantee sees the unit, their baseline and their target beside the field, and
approving the Milestone records what they achieved.

## Outcomes tabs and the annual export

Applications, Grants and Programs have an `Outcomes` tab: each indicator's baseline, target and
actuals, summed across grants, grouped by Funding Category and laid out by your financial year.
`Export annual outcomes` downloads one financial year as a CSV or a PDF for a Grant, a Program or
every Grant. The same figures are the `Indicators` data source in `Data reports`. See
[Outcomes](/administrator/milestones/outcomes).