Defining Settings in the ActiveX Web Panel

The Settings tab in the ActiveX Web Panel differs considerably from the same tab in the Java Web Panel. Most of these differences constitute important advantages:

• The document preview area to the right gives you a much more accurate preview of the final document than in the Java version, as it is already HTML-based.
  For example, you actually see a page header in place on the page, instead of creating it in the Settings area to the left, then having to wait until document generation to see how it looks.
  This also makes it easier to see how a selected image looks as the page background, where headers and footers are located on the page, word-wrap in cells, and more.
• At the top of the Settings area to the left, a Document Element drop-down list displays the structure of your document. It includes generic element names such as document and title, as well as the actual names of objects in the query.
  To set attributes for any of these elements, just click it in the list. The element is immediately selected in the preview area to the right, and the settings concerning that element appear to the left.
• You can use the Toggle Left Pane Display button in the toolbar to close the Settings area entirely, so that you can see more of the document preview without having to scroll.
• You can include six different page labels (left, middle and right, at the top and bottom of the page), whereas the Java Settings tab includes only three label options.

Settings presentation

Unlike in the Java Web Panel, the options in the ActiveX Settings tab are not organized in separately titled settings sets such as the Document Settings, Section Settings, etc. When you click on an element in the document preview area to the right, all the settings pertaining to that element automatically appear in the Settings area to the left.

These contextual settings are presented in two columns:

To expand or fold a group of settings, double-click the group title (for example, Document in the image above).

To modify a default setting, click next to it in the right-hand column:

• If a Yes or No is required, the value toggles back and forth each time you click it.
• If text is required, an entry box opens.
• If a color is required, a palette opens.
• If a number is required, a spinbox opens.

All the settings available to you in the Java Settings tab are also available to you in the ActiveX Settings tab. They are not, however, presented in the same way, and may not be grouped in the same way on the page.

For example, in the Java version of the Settings tab, you create a page label in the Document Settings. In the ActiveX version, you create a page label by clicking any of the six header and footer slots in the document preview area, then typing its text in the Label setting in the settings that appear to the left.

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