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Design Pane

The Designer provides a user-friendly interface for designing visual layout and formatting to display the data content returned from the query design. The designer displays a logical representation of a document page and provides a rich set of tools to format the page sections, create and format visual components to add to that page and link data content to these visual components. All formatting applied in the designer is CSS based. XSL style sheets are used to transform XML document design templates to HTML content

document output display design

Design Icon Descriptions

The designer toolbar contains a number of icons used in document design - the icon descriptions are shown below:

- add object, displays the Add Display Object pane to add visual components to the document

- text align left, align selected object text left

- text align center, align selected object text center

- text align right, align selected object text right

- left align, align selected objects to the left position of first selected object

- right align, align selected objects to the right position of first selected object

- top align, align selected objects to the top position of first selected object

- bottom align, align selected objects to the bottom position of first selected object

- set width, set width of selected objects to width of first selected object

- set height, set height of selected objects to height of first selected object

- space horizontally, space selected objects horizontally between first and last selected objects

- space vertically, space selected objects vertically between first and last selected objects

- undo modifications, undo the last design modification

- add column, displays the Select Document Columnspane to add display columns to document

- sql, displays the SQL Select window showing SQL that will be generated from the current document design

- run, runs the current document design and displays Document Results in browser window

- edit settings, displays the Edit Document Settings pane to modify document parameters

- save, saves current document

- logout, exits RBT Designer

- displays help page for current pane

- delete, deletes column selection

- edit mask, displays the Column Display Format pane to apply display masks to dates and numbers

Adding Document Columns

To add additional document columns follow the process described in Selecting Document Columns

Displaying Document SQL Statement

Click the Show SQL Select icon sql display pane on the toolbar to display the generated SQL statement for the current document configuration.

displaying generated sql query statement

Edit Document Settings

Click the Edit Document Settings icon to modify the current document settings as described in Adding a New Document.

Running Current Document

Click the Run icon run query to run document with current configuration.

Saving Document

Click the Save Document icon save document to save current document design. When blue, the save icon is enabled.