Adding additional panels to a panel stack

Insert as many additional panels as you need to hold the layers of data.

When you add a panel, it is added after the currently displayed panel. For example, a panel stack contains Panel1, Panel2, and Panel3, in that order. Panel2 is displayed. A new panel (Panel4) is added. The order of the panels is now Panel1, Panel2, Panel4, and Panel3. That order can be changed; for steps, see Renaming a panel or changing display order in a panel stack.

The new panel is now displayed on the panel stack. To continue with the example above, Panel4 is displayed instead of Panel2. Panel4 is therefore the current panel, which is displayed when a user views the document in another view. For steps to change the current panel, see Renaming a panel or changing display order in a panel stack.

By default, panels are named Panel1, Panel2, and so on, but you can rename them. You may want to give the panels more meaningful names since the panel name is shown in the selector (the button bar or other object that allows a user to switch panels) and can be displayed in the title bar. For more information about renaming panels, see Renaming a panel.

Prerequisites

To add a panel to a panel stack

  1. Open the document in Design or Editable Mode.

  2. Select the panel stack and pass your cursor under its title bar. A toolbar of icons is displayed.

  3. Click the Insert icon Insert New Panel icon. The new panel is added after the current panel.

  4. You can rename the panel. The name is displayed in a selector, which allows the user to switch between panels, and can be displayed in the title bar of the panel stack. For instructions to add a selector, see Inserting a selector into a document.

  5. You can change the current panel. To determine what the current panel should be, see Renaming a panel or changing display order in a panel stack.

  6. You can reorder the panels for the panel stack.

  7. You can add controls to the panel, in the same way you add controls to other parts of the document.