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Creating the project watermark

A watermark is a faint design appearing in the background of a page. Watermarks typically identify or decorate pages, and can display either text or an image.

The project watermark is applied to every document in the project, except for any documents that have a document watermark. The project watermark is also applied to reports when they are exported to PDF.

Use the project watermark to display company-wide information, such as your business logo, on every document you create. To ensure that the project watermark is used on all documents in the project, you can disable document watermarks.

You can create the project watermark in MicroStrategy Developer, although it is displayed in both MicroStrategy Developer and MicroStrategy Web. If you do not enable document watermarks using MicroStrategy Developer, you cannot add a document watermark using MicroStrategy Web.

To create a project watermark (for both documents and reports)

  1. In MicroStrategy Developer, right-click your project and select Project Configuration. The Project Configuration Editor opens.

  2. Expand the Project Definition category, then select Document and Reports.

  3. Click Watermark. The Watermark dialog box opens.

    The watermark can display either text or an image; complete only the appropriate step below.

  4.  To create a text watermark:

    1. Select Text watermark.

    2. In the Text field, type the text to display as the watermark, up to 255 characters.

    3. To change the appearance of the text, click Format, which opens the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box. You can select the font, size, color, and so on. Click OK when you have made your selections.

    4. By default, the watermark uses the font size defined in the Format Cells dialog box. To allow the font size to automatically adjust to fill the layout, select the Size font automatically check box. This can be useful if the document contains both portrait and landscape pages.

    5. To fade the watermark to ensure that the document/report information is legible through the watermark, select the Washout check box.

      Any object that has a fill color, including a white fill, covers the watermark. If you want a watermark to show through a Grid/Graph, set the background of the Grid/Graph's cells to transparent. Similarly, the background of a text field, rectangle, and so on must be transparent to allow the watermark to show through these objects.

    6. By default, the text is printed diagonally across the page. To print it horizontally instead, select Horizontal in the Orientation area.

  5. To create an image watermark:

    As with images placed elsewhere on a document, the image file must be available to both the Intelligence Server and to the designers of the document. For details, see Adding images to documents.

    1. Select Image watermark.

    2. Click ... (the browse button) next to the Source field. The Image Source dialog box opens.

    3. Do one of the following to select and preview the image file:

      • Type the path and file name of the image in the text field. Click Preview.

      • Click ... (the browse button) and select the image file. The preview area automatically displays the image.

    4. Once you have selected the image to use as the watermark, click OK.

    5. By default, the image is automatically resized to fit within the document/report margins while retaining the image's aspect ratio. To scale the image manually, select a percentage from the Scale drop-down list. The image is scaled to the selected percentage of its original size.

      The Washout option is not available for an image watermark, as you can achieve the same result by creating the image using faded or dim colors.

  6. Click OK to return to the Project Configuration Editor.

  7. To have all documents display this project watermark, clear the Allow documents to overwrite this watermark check box. If it remains selected, documents in the projects can have their own watermarks, which overwrite the project watermark.

    All reports will display the watermark when they are exported to PDF.

  8. Click OK to return to MicroStrategy Developer.

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