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Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Layering Data: Panels and Panel Stacks 3
instructions to enable and disable the functionality, see Automatically
maintaining targets for selectors, page 134.
Selectors
can also allow a user to flip through the panels in a panel
stack. Targets are not automatically maintained for this type of
selector; you always manually define the targets for panel selectors.
Inserting and defining panels
To insert and define panels, follow the high-level steps below:
1 Insert a panel stack (the holder for the panels). A single panel is
automatically added to the panel stack. For instructions, see Inserting a
panel stack, page 70.
2 By default, the title bar, which displays either the panel stack title or the
panel name to help identify the panel stack, is displayed. The title bar also
displays, by default, arrows to allow users to flip through the panels. For
instructions to hide and display the title bar, and examples of a title bar,
see Displaying the title bar of a panel stack, page 71. For instructions to
hide and display the arrows, and an example of the arrows, see Panel
selector arrows on the title bar, page 73. (If you hide the arrows or the
title bar, you should add a selector to allow users to switch between
panels, as described below.)
3 Insert as many additional panels as you need to hold the layers of data.
For instructions, see Inserting additional panels in a panel stack,
page 75.
4 Add controls to each panel, to display the data. You can add Grid/Graphs,
text fields, shapes, images, and panel stacks, just as you can to a
dashboard. For a brief description of these controls, see Chapter 1,
Document Review; for more detailed descriptions, including examples
and procedures, see the Document Creation Guide or the Desktop Help.
5 Panels are displayed in the order in which they were added. If you want to
display them in a different order, move the panels to reorder them. For an
example and instructions, see Changing the display order of panels,
page 77.
6 Ensure that the correct panel will be displayed when the user initially
views the dashboard. For instructions, see Choosing the panel to display
initially: the current panel, page 78.
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