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Property List: Section properties

Appearance

  • Name: identifies the section. It cannot be changed.

  • Backcolor: opens the Color dialog box, which allows you to set the background color.

  • Backstyle: sets whether the background of the section is Transparent or Opaque.

  • Gradient color: sets the second color to use to create a gradual color change in the section. The Backcolor and Gradient color are blended together.

  • Gradient variant: sets the direction of the shading between the Backcolor and Gradient color.

  • Hide if empty: determines whether the section displays if it has no content, regardless of how the Can Shrink property is set. By default, it is set to True.

  • Visible: determines whether the section is displayed when a user views the document. If it is set to False, you cannot view the section in PDF View or display modes in MicroStrategy Web. By default, the section is displayed.

    Even when this property is set to False, the section is still visible in Design View.

  • Visible in Web View mode: determines whether the section is displayed in display modes in MicroStrategy Web. By default, it is displayed.

    This property is available only for the Document Header/Footer, Layout Header/Footer, and Page Header/Footer sections.

Excel

  • Automatically fit rows: determines whether or not Excel automatically resizes the row heights when the document is exported.

By default, the height of all rows are the same in a document exported to Excel. This conserves the same layout that you created in the document. However, a Grid/Graph can contain data that is too long to fit inside an Excel cell and is therefore cut off. You can allow Excel to dynamically and automatically resize the row heights in a specific document section so that the rows are tall enough to display the full text. For more details, see Allowing Excel to automatically change row height. For instructions on exporting documents to Excel, see Exporting documents to Excel.

PDF

The PDF section does not appear on the Property List if the Page Header/Footer is selected.

  • Force new page: specifies whether a page break is inserted. The options are

  • None: no page break is inserted.

  • Before section: the current section is always printed at the top of a new page.

  • After section: the section immediately following the current section is printed at the top of a new page.

  • Before and after section: the current section is printed at the top of a new page, and the next section is printed at the top of a new page.

  • Keep together: specifies whether a page break is allowed within the section. By default, this property is False, meaning that as much of the section as possible is printed on the current page, with the remainder on the following pages. If the property is selected and the entire section does not fit on the page, then the section starts on the top of the next page and continues on subsequent pages.

  • Repeat horizontally: specifies whether the entire contents of the selected section are repeated on the next horizontal page when a section spans multiple pages.

  • Repeat on each page: specifies whether the entire contents of the section are repeated at the top of the next page/column when the section spans multiple pages.

    This property is available only for header sections.

Size

  • Height: sets the height of the section.

  • Height can grow: determines whether the section height can expand to fit its contents. It is used in View and HTML Mode only.

  • Height can shrink: determines whether the section height can shrink to fit its contents. It is used in View and HTML Mode only.

  • Maximum height: sets the maximum height for the section, if the Can grow property is set to True. Zero (0) indicates there is no height limit.

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