The ActiveX Web Panel

The ActiveX Web Panel looks like this:

It has four parts:

• The Classes and Objects panel to the left displays the data objects that belong to the universe you selected from the available universe list.
• The Section and Block (in the image above, labeled Table to reflect the default block type) panels to the right contain objects that have been added to the query from the Classes and Objects panel. These objects define both the data the query will retrieve from the database, and how that data is arranged in the document.
  See Including Objects in a Query.
• The Help area at the bottom left displays any description the universe's designer provided about a selected object in the Classes and Objects panel. You can deactivate or reactivate this display using the Toggle Help Display button in the toolbar.
• The ActiveX Web Panel Toolbar at the top of the Web Panel gives you instant access to a variety of formatting and query-building features with just a click of the mouse.

Note: The ActiveX Web Panel provides several practical features that aren't included in the Java version. See Using the ActiveX Web Panel.

The Classes and Objects panel

The Classes and Objects panel contains a list of the classes and objects from the selected universe that you can use to build your query. The classes and objects are arranged into hierarchies. For example, a universe might contain these classes and objects:

Notice the order: the Customer class contains objects like Country of Origin and Region, but it also contains the Sponsor sub-class, which in turn contains objects. Furthermore, sub-classes like Customer and Sponsor contain detail objects. This order becomes especially important if you make the document drillable and use the Scope of Analysis feature (see Making a Document Drillable and Planning the Scope of Analysis).

Note: For information about the types of data objects a universe can contain, see Dimension objects, measure objects and detail objects.

By default, the Classes and Objects panel is set to All objects. To change this display, click the down arrow next to the to Left Pane Display toolbar button, then click one of the following choices:

• All Objects

Displays all the classes and objects in the universe. Unless you're viewing a document in cube mode, this is the default.

• Hierarchies Objects

Displays only folders containing dimension objects, as well as those objects. When you select a Scope of Analysis, the Classes and Objects panel automatically changes to Hierarchies display.

• Query objects

Displays only the objects used to generate the document. If you have only cube mode rights and are editing a document, this is the default setting, and you cannot change it.

Note: If you're creating or editing your own document, you have full rights to edit the query (i.e. change the data to be retrieved from the database and included in the document).
If you're editing a document created by another user, you may not see a hierarchy displayed in the Classes and Objects panel. Instead, you may only see a list of the actual dimension objects used to build the query. This means you can only work with the data in the document -- you cannot edit the query.

The ActiveX Web Panel Toolbar

This dynamic toolbar tells you immediately which features are activated in the current document or Web Panel session:

Type of button	Example	Behavior
The button acts as a simple activate/deactivate toggle	Display Help button	When the feature is activated, the button is highlighted in light blue (see the first button in the image above). When the feature is deactivated, the button's background is the same color as the toolbar background (see the last button in the image above).
The button gives you a choice between several actions	Scope of Analysis button	The icon corresponding to your selection appears in the place of the original button in the toolbar. For example, if you choose One Level in the list associated with the Scope of Analysis button, instead of the default button (see the fourth button from the left above), a button with the number 1 is displayed.
The Block Type button	Block Type button	Remains identical regardless of your block type choice.

From left to right, it contains the following buttons: