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Visualization Area Sizes


Discovered this gem this afternoon,
Spotifre out of the box does a great job at resizing visualization area based on screen size. helps you maximize the screen real estate,

But while you are developing you may want to build a best layout for a certain size (like ipads, or corporate desktop size or those megascreens etc).

If you go to Edit >> Document Properties you can select Visual Area Size from a few presets or specify a custom size

But just realized you can add your own custom sizes in teh list of drop downs,

This can be done in preference manager,

If you are administrator you can set options for everyone to use

You can store a specific size in the preferences to have it show up like any other presets in the Visualization area size drop-down list of the Document Properties dialog.

  1. Select Tools > Administration Manager.
  2. Go to the Preferences tab.
  3. In the Selected group list, click on the group for which to set the preferences.
  4. In the Preferences list to the right, click on the plus sign next to Application to expand the group.
  5. Click on ApplicationPreferences.
  6. Click Edit.
  7. Click Fixed Visualization Area Sizes.
    Response: A small button is displayed to the right of the preference.
  8. Click on the button.
    Response: The String Collector Editor is displayed.
  9. Enter the desired fixed size configurations and click OK.
 Fixed Visualization Area Sizes
 Lets you specify which fixed sizes (in pixels) that should be available in the Visualization area size drop-down list in Document Properties besides Fit to Window and Custom Size…. Enter each size on a new line and use this format:

iPad Portrait (560x834)

iPad Landscape (816x575)

Desktop 1024 x 768 (814x610)

Desktop 1600 x 1200 (1390x1030)

Desktop Portrait 1050 x 1680 (840x1550)

Very Large Screen ({0} x {1}) (4000x3000)

The size is specified in the parenthesis, and the text before the parenthesis is the text that will be displayed in the drop-down list.

The last example shows how you can use variables if you want the sizes specified in the parenthesis to be displayed in the drop-down list as well. By default, iPad Portrait and iPad Landscape are available in the list. Note that these are removed from the list as soon as you add a size in the list



Comments

  1. UnknownAugust 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM

    So do you have to duplicate efforts (create a 2nd dashboard) to optimize it for multi screen?
    What I like about this feature is that you can create multiple "pages" to scroll down. The only issue I have with it is that you can't have a custom visualization area by tab - that would have been awesome

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  2. jdrdiktfApril 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM

    Any way to toggle this via script? I constantly switch back from fit to window and a custom size that prints perfect on 11X17 pdf.

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  3. jdrdiktfApril 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM

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