Understanding the RDA Design Workspace

You can modify the design workspace in RDA to accommodate your personal work style. You can maximize the workspace by displaying many of the elements only when they are needed. You can modify the tightness of the grid to enable you to easily align fields. You can display rulers to help you size the report template to properly fit on a page.

RDA offers a variety of ways to configure the design workspace:

• Set user options.

  Enables you to display or hide elements of the design workspace and set the number of rows to appear in Preview.

• Set grid alignment.

  Enables you to tighten up, or loosen up, the grid for aligning fields.

• Show and hide the display tree.

  Enables you to view the sections and fields of the report template in a hierarchical tree structure.

• Show and hide the Business View Columns Browser.

  Enables you to view and select business view columns from the business view that is attached to the selected detail section. The Business View Columns Browser is a window that you can either dock or float over the design workspace.

• Show and hide the Data Dictionary Browser.

  Enables you to search for and select data dictionary items to include in the layout of the selected section. A window is available that you can either dock or float over the design workspace.