Grid Display Preferences

Use the Grid display preferences section to personalize display options for grid reports and specify what features should be available in grid reports.

You can change the following preferences:

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: display reports using the grid style specified in the report definition.

Use my selected default grid style: Selected default grid style (see the Default grid style option below) is applied to all reports If a selected grid style is selected, formatting cannot be changed on reports.

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 option is selected.

Maximum rows in grid: Limit the number of rows displayed on a report at one time. Reports with more rows than the number entered here must use the incremental fetch icons or to view additional data.

Maximum columns in grid: Limit the number of columns displayed in a report at one time. Reports with more columns than the number entered here must use the incremental fetch icons or to view additional data.

Show attribute form names: Specify whether 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: Individual report settings determine whether attribute forms are displayed. Hide or show a report's attribute forms using the Data menu.

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

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

Show Unused Attributes in Page-by Panel - Determine whether attributes in the report that have not been added to the report grid are automatically added to the page-by panel when the report is executed.

Display empty grid axes in view mode: Show or hide a report grid when objects do not exist in the rows, for example, in a report that does not contain objects in its rows, but has objects in the columns.

Selected indicates an empty grid is displayed in the part of the report in which there are no objects, in this case, the rows. The empty grid may display messages similar to the following: "Drop objects here to add rows."

Cleared indicates that only portions of the grid containing objects (in this case, the columns) are displayed.

Enable sorting by attribute forms that are not displayed on the grid: Select to sort according to attribute forms that are not displayed on the grid. For example, the ID attribute form for the Reason Type attribute is displayed on a report, but DESC is not.

Selected indicates the ability to sort the report based on the DESC form even though the DESC form is not present on the report.

Show page-by axis by default: Display the page-by panel by default when the report is run.

Automatic page-by: Determine whether a new page of information displays immediately after selecting a choice in a page-by drop-down list.

Cleared indicates the user must click the Apply icon to see the new information after making a selection. This can be useful if there are multiple page-by drop-down lists to select before clicking the Apply icon only once.

Use images for depicting expand and contract in outline mode: Use this setting 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 setting.

Click Apply to save changes.

Note: Clicking Load Default Values will reset all preference settings to default values.

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