Disabling automatic submission for selectors in documents

Before you begin

You should be familiar with the various properties that define how a selector looks and what it controls, such as target and source. See Defining selectors for descriptions.

Automatic submission in a selector means that once a user chooses an item in the selector, the target immediately updates without any additional user interaction. If multiple items are selected, the target is automatically updated after each individual selection, which can take some time. Therefore, if multiple selections are allowed, disable automatic submission, allowing the user to choose when to update the target. The user can pick either a single item or multiple items, and then click Apply to update the target.

For metric condition selectors that use a qualification, the user must click the checkmark to apply the qualification to the target. For a description of metric condition selectors, see Creating selectors that filter metric values.

Prerequisite

This procedure assumes you have added a selector to the document. For instructions, see Inserting selectors into documents.

To disable automatic submission for selectors

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

2. Select Document Properties from the Format menu. The Document Properties dialog box opens.

3. On the Document tab, clear the Automatically apply selector changes check box.

4. Click OK to return to the document.

You can also use the Property List to disable automatic submission. Choose Document in the drop-down list at the top of the Property List pane, then set the Autoapply selector changes property to False.