10 Personalizing Your Active Studio Settings

This chapter explains how to personalize your report viewing experience.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• Specifying Report Loading Indicator Settings

• Specifying Printing Options

• Specifying Alert Delivery Settings

• Selecting a Report for the Home Tab

You can personalize settings in the Personalize dialog, such as printing options, reports for the Home tab, and alert delivery settings. For printing options, you can set your default page orientation and paper size. You can define where your alerts are delivered and the order of delivery. You can choose what to view on the Home tab when you first display it.

10.1 Specifying Report Loading Indicator Settings

In the Personalize dialog, you can enable or disable the loading indicator. The report loading indicator is a moving icon to let you know that data is still loading.

To specify the report on the Home tab:

1. Click the Personalize link in the upper right corner of the Active Studio window.

   The Personalize dialog displays.

2. On the General tab, do one of the following:

   • Click Use default setting specified by your administrator to accept the setting from the administrator. The indicator might or might not display when using this setting.

   • Click Always display the Report Loading Indicator to view the indicator for every report.

   • Click Never display the Report Loading Indicator if you do not want view the indicator when a report is loading.

3. Click OK to save your settings.

10.2 Specifying Printing Options

You can specify default printing options from the Personalize dialog.

To specify printing options:

1. Click the Personalize link in the upper right corner of the Active Studio window.

   The Personalize dialog displays.

2. Click the Print Setup tab.

3. Click either Portrait or Landscape to define the page orientation.

4. Select a paper size from the list.

5. Click OK to save your settings.

10.3 Specifying Alert Delivery Settings

You specify where you want alerts to be sent in the Personalize dialog.

To specify alert delivery settings:

1. Click the Personalize link in the upper right corner of the Active Studio window.

   The Personalize dialog displays.

2. Select the Alert Settings tab.

3. Enter your e-mail address for your e-mail account. You can enter multiple e-mail addresses separated by commas. If you enter multiple addresses, they will all receive your e-mail alerts.

4. Click OK to save your settings.

10.4 Selecting a Report for the Home Tab

In the Personalize dialog, you can specify the report you view on the Home tab.

To specify the report on the Home tab:

1. Click the Personalize link in the upper right corner of the Active Studio window.

   The Personalize dialog displays.

2. Click the Home tab.

3. Do one of the following:

   • Click Report last viewed to always display the most recently viewed report.

   • Click the Select Report button and select a report to display on the Home tab.

   • Click No Report if you do not want a report to automatically display on the Home tab.

4. Click OK to save your settings.