Rave Reports Visual Designer

Designer Preferences

The "Designer" tab allows you to control the grid system, alignment options, units of measurement and zooming.

Note that the grid system has many options to tailor the grid pattern to your personnel preferences. This includes the color of the grid lines, the grid spacing. You can control options like "Snap To Grid" and keep grid on top. The "Draw Grid On Top" option allows you to still see the grid with components that have a solid background color. If you don't want the grid at all, then make sure that "Grid Active" is not checked.

You can also set the measurement units and the number of decimal points to be displayed in the property displays. The Zoom increment controls the amount of change with the Zoom in / out controls on the Zoom Toolbar.

Several of the preferences have been made controllable from the Designer Toolbar. All of the designer toolbar items are toggles. Click it and it will change the state of that item. The first one is a view of a page and it controls whether the grid lines are visible or not on your page layout. The second one controls whether "snap to grid" is active. The third button determines whether the grid lines are always on top or not. The fourth button allows you to cause the toolbars to automatically "disappear" as soon as you make a selection from them. The fifth button controls the displaying of band headers. And the last button will bring up the Preferences dialog windows so that you can any of the preference settings.

See Also:                Preferences  >>  Defaults, Environment, Printing, Shortcuts