Hiding controls

You can display information to other document designers in Design View (MicroStrategy Developer) and Design Mode (MicroStrategy Web), while hiding it from users viewing the document in all other views and modes. For instance, you could include a note in a text field about the source of data. You then hide the text field.

You achieve this by placing the content that you want to hide into a control, and then hiding that control.

For examples of hiding and displaying controls, refer to the Document Creation Help.

You can hide the following types of controls, as well as entire sections of a document:

Grid/Graphs
HTML containers
Images
Lines
Panel stacks (all panels in the panel stack are either visible or invisible in PDF view)
Rectangle and rounded rectangles
Selectors
Text fields

Prerequisite

This procedure assumes you have already created one of the controls listed above.

To hide a control in PDF view

Open the document to be formatted in the Document Editor. (How?)
If the Property List is not displayed, select Property List from the View menu.
Select the control to be hidden.
In the Property List: Appearance section, set Visible to False. This control will not be displayed in PDF View, although it will continue to show in Design View.

You can also hide a control using the Properties dialog box: General tab.