You can hide or display sections of a document for several purposes:
You can collapse document sections as you edit or design a document, making the design process easier by maximizing the amount of space available to work in. For information, see Collapsing or expanding sections as you design.
You can also determine whether end users open a document with certain sections hidden or displayed. For example, a Page Footer section contains page numbers, which makes sense in a printed document but not in one displayed in a browser in MicroStrategy Web. In this case, you can hide the Page Footer in all MicroStrategy Web modes but display it in the exported PDF. The section is still displayed in Design view in both Desktop and Web. For information and steps, see Hiding or displaying sections for a finished document.
By default, all documents display all sections to all users. However, if a section is empty (that is, it does not contain any controls), that section is not displayed to users.
In Design mode, you can collapse a section by clicking the minus sign next to it. This conserves space while you are editing the document. For example, you are working in the Detail section, so you collapse all the other sections to maximize the amount of space in the Layout area for the Detail section. You can expand a section later, by clicking the plus sign next to it, if you want to edit the section.
Collapsing and expanding a section does not change whether it is hidden or displayed in the finished document.
If you use the Empty Document template, the sections listed below are expanded by default when you create the document. All other sections are collapsed, but you can expand them when you need to work in them.
Detail Header
Detail
Detail Footer
You can also create your own template that has the sections that you commonly work with expanded by default. For steps to create a document using a template, see Creating a document using a template.
As a designer, you may want to work in a single large section, as in a dashboard, thereby optimizing your workspace by using all the available space in the Document Editor. This one section is displayed to all users in all views. All other sections are hidden from users in the finished document and from you in Design view.
Displaying a single section can be practical when designing dashboard documents (a dashboard is a visually intuitive and interactive display of data that summarizes key business indicators for a quick status check), since dashboards are typically only one page long. You can also use the Blank Dashboard template, which displays only one section, as the starting point for your dashboard. The single section on the template is defined as being six inches high.
You are not limited to displaying only a single section; you can select which sections to display and which to hide. For example, you have to create a number of documents that should have specific sections hidden. To simplify and standardize the document, create a template that hides those sections. You can then use the template to create the documents, and by default only the selected sections are displayed.
By default, all the sections are displayed to users in all views modes. However, if a section is empty (that is, it does not contain any controls), that section is not displayed to users.
You cannot hide all the sections; at least one section must be displayed.
Open the document in Design Mode or Editable Mode.
From the Tools menu, select Document Properties. The Properties dialog box opens.
Select Sections from the Layout Properties section.
Clear the check box for any section that you want to hide.
Note: You cannot hide all the sections; at least one section must be displayed.
If a section is hidden but should be displayed, select its check box.
Click OK to return to the document. Only the selected sections are displayed.