Grid Display Project Defaults

The project defaults for grid display allow you to personalize some display options for your grid reports, such as the number of rows and columns to display. You can also specify what features you would like to access in your grid reports.

The following project defaults are available under Grid display:

Grid style: Select one of the following options from the drop-down list to specify the grid style to use with reports:

Use the format stored in the report definition: The grid style preference stored in the report definition is used for all reports.

Use my selected default grid style: Your selected default grid style (see the Default grid style option below) is applied to all reports. If you choose to use a selected grid style, you will not be able to change any formatting on any of the reports that you run.

Default grid style: Select a grid style from the drop-down list to be the default grid style for all reports. The default grid style is used for all reports that are run if the Use my selected default grid style check box above is selected.

Maximum rows in grid: Limit the number of rows displayed on your report. If your report has more rows than the number entered here, you can click incremental fetch icons or to view additional data.

Maximum columns in grid: Limit the number of columns displayed in your report. If your report has more columns than the number entered here, you can click the incremental fetch icons or to view additional data.

Show attribute form names: Specify if attribute form names for attributes with multiple forms are displayed in reports. Choose one of the following from the drop-down list:

Yes: Attribute forms are displayed on reports.

No: Attribute forms are not displayed on reports.

Read from report: The report settings determine whether attribute forms are displayed.

Show pivot buttons: Show or hide pivot buttons on all your reports.

Show sort buttons: Show or hide sort buttons on all your reports.

Display empty grid axes in view mode: Determine whether or not to display an empty grid when objects do not exist in the columns or rows. For example, you have a report that does not contain objects in its rows, but has objects in the columns. If this check box is selected, an empty grid is displayed in the portion of the grid in which there are no objects, in this case, the rows. The empty grid may display a message similar to the following: "Drop objects here to add rows." If this check box is cleared, only portions of the grid that contain objects (in this case, the columns) are displayed.

Enable sorting by attribute forms that are not displayed on the grid: Determine if you can sort according to attribute forms that are not displayed on the grid. For example, the ID attribute form for the Category attribute is displayed, but DESC is not. If the check box is selected, you can sort based on both the ID and DESC attribute forms, even though the DESC attribute form is not on the report.

Automatic page-by: Determines whether a report is automatically updated when there is an element selected in the Page-by field. If this option is selected, the report is automatically updated. If cleared, the Page-by field has an Apply icon next to it that the user must click to refresh the report.

Use images for depicting expand and contract in outline mode: This is mainly a troubleshooting setting used to adjust the expand and contract symbols in Outline mode. If the expand and contract images do not appear correctly in Outline mode, clear this check box to resolve the issue.

Allow word-wrapping of row headers in the report grid: Enables word-wrapping for all cells that contain attribute element values, depending on your browser.

If the check box is selected, word-wrapping is controlled by the Wrap text setting in the report's Format dialog box.

If the check box is cleared, word-wrapping for the attribute element cells that are in the rows (on the left of the grid) is not allowed. Word-wrapping in all other cells is still controlled by the Wrap text setting on the report's Format dialog box.

Note: This setting enables word-wrapping, but not character-level wrapping. This means that, even with this option enabled, a long numeric metric value (an unbreakable value) may not wrap.

Allow word-wrapping of metric values in the report grid: Determine whether or not to enable the word-wrapping of metric values in the report grid.

Show object descriptions as tooltips in grid: Display object descriptions as tooltips in the grid. Tooltips are displayed when a user hovers the cursor over an objection on the grid.

Click Apply to apply the changes.

Note: Clicking Load Default Values will reset all options to their default settings.