Displaying, hiding, and resizing document sections

You can hide or display sections of a document for several purposes, as well as resize sections:

• Collapsing and expanding document sections for design purposes

• Displaying and hiding document sections for end users

• Displaying document sections horizontally

• Resizing document sections

For information on hiding and displaying sections in the finished document, see Hiding or displaying sections for a finished document.

Collapsing and expanding document sections for design purposes

Collapsing sections conserves space within the editor as you design the document. Collapsing a section does not affect its size or whether controls in it appear or are hidden when the document is viewed as a PDF.

By default, when you create a new document using the Blank Document template, the Detail Header, Detail section, and Detail Footer are expanded. The other sections are collapsed.

The Blank Dashboard template displays only one section, the Detail Header, by default, allowing you to easily design a dashboard-style document using the whole screen.

To expand or collapse a document section, click the plus sign or minus sign next to it (as highlighted in the example below).

You can also create your own template that has the sections that you commonly work with expanded by default. For steps to create a document using a template and to create a template, as well as general information about templates, see Creating a document using another document as a template.

Displaying and hiding document sections for end users

You can determine whether end users open a document with certain sections hidden or displayed. For example, a Page Footer section contains page numbers, which makes sense in a printed document but not in one displayed in MicroStrategy Web. In this case, you can hide the Page Footer in all MicroStrategy Web modes but display it when the document is viewed as a PDF. (The section is still displayed in Design Mode.) For steps and examples, see Hiding or displaying sections for a finished document.

By default, all document sections are displayed to all users, in all views in MicroStrategy Developer and in all modes in MicroStrategy Web. If a section is empty and does not contain any controls, that section is automatically not displayed to users.

If the document contains multiple layouts, you can hide and display different sections for different layouts. Each layout is independent of the others in this regard. For background information on multi-layout documents, including which options apply to the document as a whole or to individual layouts, see Creating multi-layout documents.

Displaying document sections horizontally

The Detail Header, Detail, and Detail Footer sections can be displayed horizontally so that they are listed across the page instead of vertically. In the following image, only these horizontally arranged sections are expanded.

For an expanded example, reasons to use horizontal display, and steps, see Displaying sections horizontally.

You can also horizontally display the Group Header and Group Footer for a group. For an example and steps, see Displaying a group horizontally.

Resizing document sections

To resize a document section, drag its lower boundary to make it larger or smaller. By default, sections expand to fit the controls that they contain but they do not shrink if the controls are smaller than the size of the section. For steps to use the section size options in combination, see Changing the size of a section.