InetSoft Product How-To: Custom Dashboards

This section discusses several ways that you can modify the overall appearance of a Dashboard. These include alterations you can make to the Viewsheet grid, and the use of tabbed controls and nested Viewsheets. It is possible to alter the Viewsheet grid by inserting or deleting cells, rows, and columns. You can also resize the grid rows and column, and make the grid invisible.

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To insert a new cell, row, or column into the Viewsheet grid:

  1. Right-click on the cell, row, or column where you want the insertion to take place, and select ‘Insert Cell(s)’ from the context menu. This opens the ‘Insert Cell(s)’ dialog box.
  2. In the ‘Insert Cell(s)’ dialog box, select the desired insertion type:
    a. To insert a single blank cell at the current grid location, select ‘Shift cells down’ or ‘Shift cells right’.
    b. To insert a blank row or column at the current grid location, select ‘Entire row’ or ‘Entire column’. This inserts the new row or column, and displaces the currently selected row or column (and subsequent rows or columns) downward or to the right, respectively.

To delete a cell, row, or column from the Viewsheet grid:

  1. Right-click the cell, row, or column you want do delete, and select ‘Delete Cell(s)’ from the context menu. This opens the ‘Delete Cell(s)’ dialog box.
  2. In the ‘Delete Cell(s)’ dialog box, select the desired deletion type:
    a. To delete the single cell at the current grid location, select ‘Shift cells up’ or ‘Shift cells left’. This deletes the currently selected cell, and displaces the following cells upwards or to the left, respectively.
    b. To delete the currently selected column or row, select ‘Entire row’ or ‘Entire column’. This deletes the current row or column, and displaces the following rows or columns upward or to the left, respectively

To hide a grid or enable grid visibility:

  1. To hide the Viewsheet grid, right-click in an empty grid cell, and select ‘Hide Grid’ from the context menu.
  2. To enable grid visibility, right click in an empty region of the Viewsheet, and select ‘Show Grid’ from the context menu.

To resize a row or column of the Viewsheet grid, follow these steps:

  1. Move the mouse over a divider in the row or column header region. The pointer changes to a resize tool.
  2. Drag the row or column divider to change the row height or column width.
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