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Adding panels to a panel stack

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 panels, you should be familiar with the different parts of a panel stack. See Defining the parts of a panel stack for detailed descriptions.

Panels allow the user to see different predefined views of data in the same document. Panels are contained in a panel stack, a holder for a collection of panels. You can insert as many additional panels as you need to hold the layers of data.

When you add a panel, it is added after the panel that was displayed. For example, a panel stack contains Panel1, Panel2, and Panel3, in that order. Panel2 is displayed. A new panel (Panel4) is added. The order of the panels is now Panel1, Panel2, Panel4, and Panel3. That order can be changed; for instructions, see Changing the display order of panels.

The new panel is now displayed on the panel stack. To continue with the example above, Panel4 is displayed instead of Panel2. It is therefore the current panel, which is displayed when a user views the document in another view. For more details on how the current panel is displayed in MicroStrategy Developer and in MicroStrategy Web, and instructions to change the current panel, see Choosing the panel to display initially: the current panel.

By default, panels are named Panel1, Panel2, and so on, but you can rename them. You may want to give the panels more meaningful names since the panel name is shown in the selector (the button bar or other object that allows a user to switch panels) and can be displayed in the title bar. For instructions, see Renaming panels.

Prerequisite

The document must contain a panel stack. See Adding panel stacks to documents for directions.

To add a panel to a panel stack

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

  2. You can add a new panel by inserting a blank panel or copying an existing panel, as described below:

    • To insert a new, blank panel, right-click the panel stack, point to Panels, and then select Insert.

    • To copy an existing panel, right-click the panel stack, point to Panels, and select Display Next or Display Previous to display the panel to be copied. Right-click the panel stack, point to Panels, and then select Duplicate.

    • The new panel is added to the panel stack, after the selected panel. The new panel is displayed on the panel stack, which means that the new panel is set as the current panel, which is displayed when a user views the document in another view.

  3. You can rename the panel. The name is displayed in a selector, which allows the user to switch between panels, and can be displayed in the title bar of the panel stack. For instructions to add a selector, see Inserting selectors into documents.

  4. You can change the current panel for the panel stack. The current panel is displayed in Design View. In PDF View, the current panel is displayed/printed; the user cannot change to a different panel. The current panel is displayed when a user opens the document in MicroStrategy Web, although the user can change to a different panel.

  5. You can reorder the panels for the panel stack. The order of the panels affects both the order the panels are displayed in the panel stack and in any selector attached to the panel stack.

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