Maximizing your view of a document: Full Screen mode

You can view a dashboard or document without the toolbars, menus, and panels at the top of the screen. By hiding these tools, you can focus attention on the data itself and maximize the amount of the document that can be shown at one time. This is called Full Screen mode.

When you view a document in Full Screen mode, all of the menus, toolbars, and panels are hidden from view except the Standard toolbar and the Page-by field.

Use the appropriate steps below to view a document in Full Screen mode, switch from Full Screen mode to normal mode, or, if you are a document designer, enable a document to open in Full Screen mode.

To view a document in Full Screen mode

Open a document in Grid, Graph, or Grid and Graph view.
From the Home menu, select Full Screen Mode. Notice that all of the menus, toolbars, and panels are removed from the screen, except the Standard toolbar and the Grouping panel.

To maximize your view of the report even more, enable full screen mode in your browser as well as the Full Screen mode in Web. For example, in Internet Explorer you can press F11 to enable Full Screen mode.

To switch from Full Screen mode to normal screen mode

With a document currently displayed in Full Screen mode, click the Restore Normal Screen Mode icon . The menus, toolbars, and panels are displayed at the top of the document.

You can ensure that when a report is executed, it opens in Full Screen mode by default. You can also ensure that all reports in your project open in Full Screen mode when they are executed.

To set all documents in a project to execute in Full Screen mode

Click the Preferences link at the top right of the screen. The User Preferences page is displayed.
From the left, select General.
In the Output Formats area at the bottom, select from the following options in the Full Screen Mode Behavior for Reports drop-down list:

Read from Report: Ensures that a document is opened in Full Screen mode only if the document's Full Screen mode setting is enabled. Within reports, this setting is the Always open this report in full screen mode check box in the Grid Options dialog box/panel. Steps to enable this for a report are provided above.
Open every Report in Full Screen mode: Ensures that all reports in the current project are executed in Full Screen mode, by default.
Don't open any Report in Full Screen mode: Ensures that no reports in the current project are executed in Full Screen mode, even if a report has Full Screen mode enabled.

Click Apply at the bottom of the page to confirm the changes.

To ensure that a report opens in Full Screen mode

Open a report in Grid, Graph, or Grid and Graph view.
From the Tools menu, select Report Options. The Report Options dialog box is displayed.
Select the Always open this report in full screen mode check box.
Click Apply to apply the changes.
Click OK to close the dialog box.

The next time the report is executed, it will automatically open in Full Screen mode.