You can add a simple text area just to provide information about
the analysis, but you can also add a lot of functionality to the text area.
About this task
See
Text area for a description of functionality
you can add. For information about actions and scripts in text areas, see
Adding actions to a text area and
Adding a script action to a text area or
visualization item.
Before you begin
Text areas must be
authored in the installed client.
Procedure
-
On the authoring bar, click
Visualization types
to open the flyout.
-
Drag the
Text area visualization type to the desired
position on the analysis page.
A blank text area is created.
-
On the text area title bar, click
Edit Text Area
.
You can also right-click the text area and select
Edit Text Area from the pop-up menu.
-
In the
Edit Text Area dialog you can type text, or add
any type of dynamic controls by clicking the corresponding button on the text
area toolbar.
Comment: See
Edit text area toolbar for more information
about the available tools. See
Adding a property control to a text area
and
Adding a dynamic item to a text area
for more details about these controls and items. Double-clicking a control in
the Edit Text Area dialog opens a dialog for editing the control. You can also
right-click in the dialog to edit or format added controls, as well as use the
usual Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete commands.
Note: When working with
calculated values, make sure you do not
unintentionally override any font style settings that have been defined in a
rule when changing the font, style or size. If you apply a font style (Bold and
Italic) from the Format Control dialog, it will be added to the calculated
value on top of any font style included in a rule for the calculated value. For
example, if you select the check box for Bold in the Format Control dialog,
then the calculated value will always be shown as bold. A rule stating that the
value should be shown in bold only if the value is greater than a certain value
will have no effect, because the calculated value is already bold.
-
Click
Save when you are finished.
-
Click
Close in the upper-right corner to exit the
Edit Text Area dialog.
Results
The text area is
updated in the analysis.
To edit the title of the text area or to define whether to show the
title bar, right-click the text area and select
Properties from the pop-up menu.