Dashboard

Dashboard templates are designed to help speed up the document creation

process because they contain predefined zones to which you add document

objects.

Dashboard templates display when you begin creating a new document. They

have the following default characteristics:

• Predefined and locked panel stacks—Depending on the dashboard

template you use, one or more panel stacks form the basis for the

predefined zones of the dashboard template. The panel stack displays

with a grey background fill color, rounded edges, a drop shadow, and no

borders. Its width, height, and position properties are locked. It displays

only one panel by default. To add more panels, you must unlock the panel

stack, assuming you have the appropriate privileges and permissions to

do so.

• Default display mode—The default display mode is Interactive Mode.

• Other display modes—Additional available display modes include

Express Mode, Flash Mode, and Editable Mode.

• Export formats—Available export formats include Excel, PDF, HTML,

and Flash.

• Full Screen Mode—When you switch from Design Mode to Express

Mode, Interactive Mode, Editable Mode, or Flash Mode, the document

displays in Full Screen Mode by default.

• Grid/graphs match the size of the panel stack—Objects that you add to

the predefined zones of the dashboard template automatically take up the

entire width and height of the panel stack. That is, the width and height

properties of the grid/graph are fixed to match those of the underlying

panel stack. When you add shapes and text boxes, they take up the width

but not the height.

• Title bars for grid/graphs, selectors, and panel stacks—Title bars are

enabled by default and display with a grey gradient fill color.

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