Text Properties

From the dropdown list at the top of the Properties Pane, select the text object whose properties you want to define.

Text

Text

Enter the text that should appear in the graphic object. Or, use the Data Link  option.

HTML Support

When set to Yes, you can use HTML elements in the text object.

Auto Word Wrapping

When set to Yes, automatic word wrapping is applied to the text.

Font, Font Size, Bold, Italic, Color

Set the font, the font size, the type and color of the text. You can use the Data Link  option to set a rule for changing the font attributes.

Orientation

The orientation of the text: Left-to-right or right-to-left.

Vertical Alignment

The vertical justification of the text string: top, middle or bottom.

Horizontal Alignment

The horizontal justification of the text string: start, center or end.

Geometry

X, Y

The position of the container.

Width, Height

The width and height of the container.

Rotation

If the text should be rotated, specify the value of rotation in degrees. Or, use the Data Link  option.

Actions

This property is used to define an action at the graphic object level. The action will be available for execution by clicking the Actions  button on the Infographics tab of the ribbon in a workboard, or by clicking on the graphic object.


To define actions:

1.      Click on Actions List and then click the down arrow.

2.      Click the Create  button and click on the value column. From the dropdown list, select an action.

Move to another workboard

Clicking on the action will move the user to the workboard defined in this property.

Choose Move to another workboard, and in Select a Workboard choose the workboard to navigate to.

Click OK.

Open a browser window

Clicking on the action will open the specified web page in a browser window.

Choose Open a browser window, and in Enter page URL type in the page address.

Click OK.

Execute a JavaScript expression

Clicking on the action will execute the entered JavaScript code.

Choose Execute a JavaScript expression.

Click the arrow in Enter JavaScript expression and type in the code.

Click OK.

3.      In Caption, the action’s caption appears automatically. This caption appears in the action’s tooltip. Click on it to edit it.

4.      Click OK.

Actions Context

If the action is “Move to another workboard”, when the end-user will perform this action to move to another workboard, the current slicing in the workboard will apply to the other workboard. If you want the action to ignore the original slicing and move only certain dimension members, use the Actions Context property to define those members.

Click on Actions Context and click the down arrow.

Click on the Member column and then on the down arrow. Select a dimension member.

Repeat this for more dimension members. Click OK.

Detailed Tooltip

This is the tooltip that appears when the end-user hovers over the graphic object on the workboard.

Click on the value column and then click the down arrow. Enter the tooltip text in the edit box. Click OK.

You can use the Data Link  option to define a rule or a custom formula to display a tooltip text.

On the workboard, the tooltip will look like this:

Execute Action When Clicked

If set to Yes, the action will be performed directly when the end-user clicks on the graphic object.