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Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors 4
(All) item has extra space, while Northwest is cut off, displaying as Northwe
instead.
The following procedure re-creates this example using the Property List. You
can also use the Properties dialog box to specify proportional or fixed width
for selector items; see the Desktop Help for instructions.
Item width does not apply to Search Box selectors.
To specify selector item width as fixed
1 Open a dashboard in Design View in the Document Editor.
2 Add the panel stack and selector as shown in the example. For
instructions to add a panel stack, see Inserting a panel stack, page 70;
for instructions to add a selector, see Methods to create a selector,
page 117.
3 Select the selector.
4 In the Property List: Size section, set Make all items the same width to
True.
Formatting the text of a selector’s items
You can format the font of the text for the items in a selector. The items of a
selector are the elements, metrics, or panels that are listed in the selector.
The user selects an item to change the display of the panel or Grid/Graph.
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