Print dialog

The dialog is displayed after you click the Print button on the side bar, or click the Options button on the side bar and select Print from the option list. It helps you to print one or more library components in a dashboard using the same format. See the dialog.

Resources

Show Component Title

Specifies whether to show the library component titles in the print result.

Layout

Printer properties

Opens the Printer Properties dialog for specifying the printer properties.

Page Setup

Opens the Page Setup dialog for specifying the page size for printed files. Enabled for non-system layouts.

Print

Starts printing.

Save

Saves changes to an existing layout or opens the Save As dialog for saving a newly created layout. The saved layouts are available in the Layout drop-down list for applying. The layouts that you save will be available to all users using the same dashboard.

Save As

Opens the Save As dialog for saving a new layout with a name or saving an existing layout with another name.

Options for managing tabular cell

Available to non-system layouts. They are used for customizing the layout in the Design tab.

Options for navigating pages

Options for zooming in/out the pages

The usage of the tool:

Design tab

Available to non-system layouts. It is where you customize the component layout. The page size is determined by the page setup properties and the ratio setting. A tabular fulfills the page printable area for holding a library component in each cell. Split or merge the cells and then drag library components from the Resources box into the cells to customize the layout.

When printing, for tables and crosstabs, only their current view of data as displayed in the dashboard will be printed by default. For example, if a table contains 10 pages of data and you browse to page 3 when you open the Print dialog, then in the printed result, the table will only contain data of page 3. If you want their full data to be printed, you need to use the Filter option on the context menu to switch from Current View to All.

There are these options on the context menu after right-clicking in a tabular cell:

View tab

Available to non-system layouts. It provides a preview of the customized layout. You can click the page navigation and zooming buttons to preview the result.