Using Power Painter Options and Palettes

The following image is an example of the Power Painter tool with multiple objects displayed in the canvas. Several options and palettes enable you to customize the layout for the Power Painter tool.

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Using Palettes in the Canvas

Upon opening the Power Painter tool, the canvas appears with all of the palettes minimized and pinned in the Power Painter margins. You can show, hide, or move these palettes as needed. Power Painter retains these settings.

Power Painter is able to store information so that the options you set in a single session are remembered and applied the next time you use the tool. Examples of the settings that can be saved are how the palettes are displayed, the theme selected, field display options, and so on. The information for these settings is stored under each user's directory in the Managed Reporting repository.

Note: Reusing stored settings is only available if you access the same Managed Reporting environment.

Palettes in Power Painter:

Resizable. You can change the height and width by dragging the sides of the palette.
Dockable. You can dock the palettes to the sides of the screen (top, bottom, left, right) or float them anywhere in the work area.
Stackable. If multiple palettes are docked on the same side of the canvas, they become stacked.
Pinnable. You can minimize the palettes and pin them in the Power Painter margins.

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Procedure: How to Dock and Undock a Palette

Double-click a palette to dock it on the canvas.
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Drag a palette within 10 pixels of the edge (top, bottom, left, right) of the canvas.

Note: A palette is docked when both the pin and close button are available from the palette toolbar.

To undock a palette (float it), click the palette toolbar, left-click and hold your mouse, and drag the palette to a new location on the canvas.

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Procedure: How to Stack Palettes

Drag and dock multiple palettes to one side of the canvas to create vertical or stacked palettes. You can adjust the height/width of each palette in the docking area.

Note: Resizing any palette automatically resizes the rest of the palettes so that they can fit into the docking area.

The following image is an example of vertically stacked palettes in the Power Painter tool.

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Procedure: How to Pin a Palette

Click the pin button located on the toolbar of an open palette.
The palette is pinned and minimized.

You can perform the following actions with pinned palettes:
- Hover your mouse over the palette to show its contents.
- Hover your mouse out of the palette to minimize it again.
- Double-click a palette to dock it on the canvas.

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Procedure: How to Show a Palette

Select Palettes from the View menu.
Palettes that are checked are shown in the canvas.

Select an unchecked palette name.
The palette is shown maximized on the canvas. You can move or resize the palette as needed.

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Procedure: How to Close a Palette

Select Palettes from the View menu.

Select a checked palette name from the list.
The palette is closed and removed from the canvas.

Note: You can also close an open palette by clicking the Close button from the palette toolbar.

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Procedure: How to Reset the Power Painter Layout

From the View menu, select Reset Layout from the Palettes submenu.

The Power Painter layout resets with the default palettes shown (Toolbox, Properties, Data Sources) in the canvas.