Look and Feel Preferences

Look and Feel preferences are organized into three groups:

Look and Feel Preferences

Description

New Documents

Specifies Web Analysis Studio behavior for opening a database connection.

When disabled (default), opening a database connection through the Open Menu, Open toolbar button or View Pane shortcut menu, results in a Auto-Populate Dimension document. Auto-Populate Dimension documents assume use of the highest aggregate members of the time and measures dimensions to populate the rows and columns axes of a spreadsheet.

When enabled, the use of a spreadsheet is still assumed, but you must assign dimensions to axes with Data Layout as part of creating a document.

Desktop

Sets the desktop wallpaper graphic, using the Select Graphic dialog box.

Display

Sets interface elements to be displayed by default:

  • Content tabs

  • Main menu (menu bar)

  • Toolbar

  • Masthead

  • Filter panel

  • View pane

  • Status bar

  • Multi-page drop-down