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Choosing the panel to display initially: the current panel

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 RS dashboards: Panels and panel stacks. Before defining the current panel, you should be familiar with the different parts of a panel stack. See Defining the parts of a panel stack for detailed descriptions.

You can choose which panel should be displayed on the panel stack when the document is viewed in PDF View or in MicroStrategy Web. This is referred to as the current panel.

The panel displayed in Design View is set as the current panel. If you add a panel to a panel stack, the new panel becomes the current panel.

When a user switches to PDF View, the current panel is the only one displayed as well as the only one that can be printed.

In MicroStrategy Web, the current panel is displayed when a user first opens the document, although he can use a selector or the arrows on the title bar to change to a different panel. If DHTML is enabled and panels are defined to load on demand, only the current panel is downloaded when the document is executed in MicroStrategy Web; other panels are loaded when the user requests them. If panels are defined to pre-load, all panels in the panel stack are downloaded when the document is executed. For more information about loading panels, including instructions, see Loading panels on demand in MicroStrategy Web.

Prerequisite

The document must contain a panel stack with multiple panels. See Adding panel stacks to documents and Adding panels to a panel stack for directions.

To choose the current panel

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

  2. Right-click the panel stack to modify, point to Panels, and then select Manage. The Panels tab of the Properties dialog box opens.

  3. In the list of panels, select the panel to set as the current panel.

  4. Click Set as Current.

  5. Click OK to return to the document.