Document Display Modes

There are several viewing modes available for documents, such as  Interactive Mode to analyze data in grid and graph reports, or  Flash Mode to work with Flash-only features like widgets, which are a common feature of dashboards.

 

When a document is created, it is saved in a default display mode.  To select a new display mode, that display mode must be enabled for that document.

To change display modes:

  1. Click the name of a document to execute it.

  2. From the Home menu, select Interactive Mode, or Flash Mode, Express Mode. Not all options are available, depending on your user privileges and the display modes enabled for the document.

The following list describes the best use for each display mode. Use the summary table below as a quick reference for display modes.

 

Interactive Mode: work with data on a grid or graph report in a document by pivoting, sorting, adding totals, re-sizing rows and columns, and creating metrics based on report objects already on the grid report. Use selectors to flip through the panels in a panel stack or display different attribute elements or metrics in a grid or graph report in a document. Interactive Mode is optimized for dashboard viewing. For the complete list of functionality available in Interactive Mode, see Viewing documents in Interactive Mode.

 

Flash Mode: access features provided by Flash, such as interactive widgets. Grid or graph reports in a document cannot be manipulated or formatted, except to sort and pivot objects on them. If a graph report uses a graph type that is not supported in Flash, the graph is not displayed. For the complete list of functionality available in Flash Mode, see Viewing documents in Flash Mode.

 

Express Mode: non-editable read-only mode.

Summary of display modes

Display Mode

What You Can Do In It

Limitations

Interactive Mode

  • Intended for document analysts

  • Edit an existing document

  • View the results of the document

  • Use selectors to flip through the panels in a panel stack or display different attribute elements or metrics in a Grid/Graph

  • Format Grid/Graphs

  • Sort grid reports and pivot report objects on them

  • Add totals

  • Re-size rows and columns

  • Create metrics based on report objects already on the grid report

  • Cannot create a new document

  • Cannot format the layout and positioning of objects or the entire document

  • Cannot format widget Flash properties

Flash Mode

  • Intended for document analysts

  • Edit an existing document

  • View the results of the document

  • Access and interact with features provided by Flash, such as widgets

  • Use selectors to flip through the panels in a panel stack or display different attribute elements or metrics in a Grid/Graph

  • Format widget Flash properties

  • Sort grid reports and pivot report objects on them

  • Cannot create a new document

  • Cannot manipulate or format Grid/Graphs, except to sort and pivot objects on them

  • If a Grid/Graph uses a graph type that is not supported in Flash, the graph is not displayed

Express Mode

  • Intended for document analysts

  • View the results of the document only, as you might in a static PDF file

  • Provides better performance than all other modes, but the document is not interactive

  • Cannot create a new document

  • Cannot edit an existing document

  • Cannot manipulate any objects on the document, as you can in any of the other display modes

  • Documents in Express Mode containing multiple pages cannot display ascending page numbers

 

 

 

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