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Disabling simultaneous display of all items in a selector

Before you begin

You should be familiar with the various properties that define how a selector looks and what it controls, such as target and source. See Defining selectors for descriptions.

About simultaneous display of all items

A selector that targets a Grid/Graph or another selector can show an item labeled (All). When a user clicks (All) in the selector, all the items are displayed on the Grid/Graph.

For example, a Grid/Graph displays metrics for employees and regions. The user can choose which regions to display by using a selector. When a user clicks (All) in the selector, all the regions are displayed in the Grid/Graph.

The All option is displayed by default in a selector, but you can remove it by disabling the Show option All property. To continue with the example above, once this property is disabled, a user can only display each region separately; he cannot display all regions simultaneously. For sample images of this example, see the Document Creation Help.

The All option is not available if the selector:

  • Targets a panel stack, since you cannot display multiple panels simultaneously.

  • Is a metric condition selector.

By default, this item is displayed as (All), but you can replace the text of the item. In the example given above, you could replace (All) with All Regions to provide an explicit description of the item. For a procedure to rename the All option, see Renaming the All option for selectors.

For examples, see the Document Creation Help.

Prerequisite

This procedure assumes you have added a selector to the document, and it is not a panel selector or metric condition selector. For instructions, see Inserting selectors into documents.

To disable simultaneous display of all items

  1. Open the document in the Document Editor. (How?)

  2. Select the selector to modify.

  3. In the Property List: Data section, set Show option All to False.

    If the Property List pane is not displayed, click Property List at the bottom of the panel on the left. If the panel is not displayed at all, select Property List from the View menu.