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Adding panel stacks to documents

Before you begin

The panel stack is the holder for a group of panels. You must add a panel stack before you can insert more panels (a new panel stack already contains one panel). The panels contain the controls (Grid/Graphs, text fields, and so on) that actually display the data, such as metrics and graphs, that a user sees. For a more detailed description of panels and panel stacks, see Layering data in Report Services (RS) dashboards: Panels and panel stacks. Before adding panel stacks, you should be familiar with the different parts of a panel stack. See Defining the parts of a panel stack for detailed descriptions.

To create panels, you must first insert a panel stack (the holder for the collection of panels) into the document. A new panel stack already shows a single panel by default. After you insert a panel stack, you can add more panels to it.

To add a panel stack

  1. Open a document in the Document Editor. How?

  2. If you used the Blank Dashboard template to create the document, only one section is displayed. If you used a different template:

    • Expand the section where you want the panel stack by clicking the plus sign next to the section name.

      You cannot add a panel stack in the Details section. Since controls in the Detail section are repeated once per row of the dataset, the panel stack would be repeated on each row.

  3. From the Insert menu, select Panel Stack, or click the Panel Stack icon in the toolbar. When you move the cursor to the Layout area, the pointer becomes crosshairs.

  4. Click in the desired section of the Layout area. If you click and drag in the section, you can size the panel stack.

    • The panel stack is added to the document, with a single panel.

  5. You can add controls to the panel, in the same way you add controls to other parts of the document.

  6. Add static text

  7. Add data fields

  8. Add auto text codes

  9. Adding lines

  10. Adding rectangles

  11. Adding images

  12. If you want, you can insert additional panels into the panel stack.

  13. By default, the title bar is displayed. If you want, you can hide the title bar of the panel stack.

    • The title bar displays either the panel stack title or the panel name to help identify the panel stack. The title bar also displays, by default, arrows to allow users to flip through the panels, although you can hide the panel selector arrows.

For more suggestions on working with panel stacks, see Inserting and defining panels.