You can change the following properties for a control using the General options in the Properties and Formatting dialog box. See the options below:
General
Name: Identifies the control. You cannot change the name of sections.
Type: Cannot be changed; it is automatically set when the control is created.
Display Text: The text to display on the button of an action condition selector. This option is only available for action condition selectors.
Tooltip: Type the text that you want to display when a user hovers the cursor over the control.
Visible: Determines whether the control is visible when a user views the document. This check box is selected by default.
Portal Window: The following options are available for Grid/Graphs.
Show Title Bar: Determines whether the title bar of the control is displayed when a user views the document.
Title: By default, the name of the dataset report is displayed in the title bar. To display a different title, type the new text in the field.
Display State: To change the initial display height and width of the Grid/Graph, select one of the following options from the drop-down list:
Normal (default): The grid or graph report is displayed with the title bar, and can be moved or resized.
Minimized: Only the title bar is initially displayed. A user can move the grid report or graph report but cannot resize it.
Maximized: The size of the grid report or graph report is initially displayed at the size of the document section in which it is located. A user can move the grid report or graph report, but cannot resize it.
Selector: The following options are available for selectors.
Show Title Bar: Determines whether the title bar of the selector is displayed when a user views the document. This check box is cleared by default.
Title: Specify the name displayed in the title bar by typing it in the Title field.
Panel Stack: The following options are available for panel stacks.
Show Title Bar: Determines whether the title bar of the control is displayed when a user views the document. This check box is selected by default.
Allow current panel to be changed without selector: Determines whether to allow users to change the current panel displayed in a panel stack. This check box is selected by default.
In Web, select this check box to display the Previous and Next icons in the panel stack's title bar, to allow users to select and display different panels without using a selector.
In a document displayed on an iPad with MicroStrategy Mobile, select this option to allow users to switch between panels in a panel stack using a horizontal swipe gesture.
Use as Information Window: Determines whether the panel stack is displayed as an Information Window when displayed on the iPad, or in Express Mode in MicroStrategy Web. You can use Information Windows to provide additional information about an item in a selector. For steps to use panel stacks as Information Windows on the iPad, see Creating an Information Window for display on the iPad. This check box is cleared by default.
Title: Specify whether the title bar displays the name of the current panel, or a custom title. By default, the name of the dataset report is displayed in the title bar.
Current Panel Name (default): Display the name of the current panel in the panel stack.
Custom Title: Specify a custom title.
Custom Title: Specify a title to be displayed in the title bar. This option is only available if the Title drop-down list is set to Custom Title.
Pre-load (DHTML only) settings: Determines which panels in a panel stack to pre-load when the document is executed in MicroStrategy Web.
Inherit from Document (default): Use the document-level setting to determine whether to pre-load panels.
All Panels: Pre-load all panels when the document is executed in MicroStrategy Web.
Current Panel Only: Pre-load only the current panel when the document is executed in MicroStrategy Web.
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