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Enabling automatic target maintenance

Before you begin

You should be familiar with how automatic target maintenance works for selectors, as described in Automatically maintaining targets for selectors.

Steps to enable automatic target maintenance

When you enable automatic target maintenance on a layout, the targets of all existing attribute, metric, and metric condition selectors are replaced with all the Grid/Graphs and panel stacks that are in the same panel or document section as the selector. However, if a selector is the target of another selector, it is not replaced.

For example, a document has automatic target maintenance disabled. The document contains the following objects:

  • In the Document Header section:

  • Grid/Graph 1

  • Selector 1, which targets Grid/Graph 1 and Grid/Graph 2 to display data about the selected Region

  • In the Detail Header section:

  • Grid/Graph 2

  • Panel Stack 1

  • Selector 2, which targets Panel Stack 1 to display the selected region name

  • Panel Stack Selector, which targets Panel Stack 1 to switch panels

Notice that Selector 1 targets Grid/Graph 2, which is not in the same document section as the selector.

Enable automatic target maintenance. The targets of all existing selectors are redefined to those Grid/Graphs and panel stacks in the same document section as the selector. Now the document contains the following objects:

  • In the Document Header section:

  • Grid/Graph 1

  • Selector 1, which targets Grid/Graph 1 to display data about the selected Region (Grid/Graph 2 has been removed from the target list)

  • In the Detail Header section:

  • Grid/Graph 2

  • Panel Stack 1

  • Selector 2, which targets Grid/Graph 2 to display data about the selected Region, and Panel Stack 1 to display the selected region name (Grid/Graph 2 has been added to the target list)

  • Panel Stack Selector, which targets Panel Stack 1 to switch panels (panel stack selectors are not affected by automatic target maintenance)

To enable automatic target maintenance

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

  2. From the Format menu, select Document Properties. The Document Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Click Layout in the list on the left.

  4. Select the Automatically maintain targets for all selectors in this layout check box.

  5. Click OK to return to the document.

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