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In Forsta Reportal, you can move most objects to different locations and copy elements from the toolboxes into the report by using the drag-and-drop method. Once the objects are in the desired locations, you can edit them by double-clicking on the object or right-clicking on it and choosing Properties or Edit from the menu.
When editing Report Masters, Page Masters, Layout Masters and Report Pages, you can drag the elements from the Visual Components toolbox, and drop them into the appropriate table cell in the Page editor .
Figure 1 - Dragging an element from the Visual Components toolbox
An alternative method for inserting visual components is to right-click in the designer page and select the component under the Insert Component menu command .
Figure 2 - Inserting a component
Note: You may experience that long drop-down menus in Reportal are truncated. This is due to a setting in your Internet Explorer, and you will need to change the setting to display the full menus. In your IE, go to Tools > Options to open the Internet Options dialog, then go to the Security tab. Click Custom Level, then scroll approximately half way down the list to "Allow script-initiated windows without size or position constraints" and set this to Enable. Click OK, then restart Internet Explorer.
When creating or editing Report Page and Aggregated Table elements, you must provide the actual data to be presented. To do this, you drag items from the Data Source and drop them in specific destinations in the Page Editor to create links. In the picturehere below, a question from the Data Source is being dragged into the Questionnaire text element. In this case this will cause the question text from the Age question to be presented in the given location on the report page.
Figure 3 - Dragging an element from the Data Source
In the figure below, a question from the Data Source is being dropped into the rows section of an aggregated table. In this case, the Age data will be displayed in the table rows.
Figure 4 - Dragging a question into an aggregated table