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General Tools: View

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The View toolbar contains commands that control the presentation of document elements on the Design Surface.

These commands are divided into the following categories.

Document Views

Command Large Icon Small Icon Description
Simple view icon-toolbar-view-simple-vew icon-small-toolbar-view-simple-view Shows a document without the page layout.
Draft View icon-toolbar-view-draft-view icon-small-toolbar-view-draft-view Shows a document in a draft view that ignores certain document elements such as page breaks, or headers and footers.
Print Layout icon-toolbar-view-print-layout icon-small-toolbar-view-print-layout Shows a document as it will appear on the printed page.

Show

Command Large Icon Small Icon Description
Horizontal Ruler icon-toolbar-view-horizontal-ruler icon-small-toolbar-view-horizontal-ruler Shows or hides the horizontal ruler at the top of the Design Surface.
Vertical Ruler icon-toolbar-view-vertical-ruler icon-small-toolbar-view-vertical-ruler Shows or hides the vertical ruler to the left of the Design Surface.

Zoom

Command Large Icon Small Icon Description
Zoom Out icon-toolbar-view-zoom-out icon-small-toolbar-view-zoom-out Zooms the document out.
Zoom In icon-toolbar-view-zoom-in icon-small-toolbar-view-zoom-in Zooms the document in.

View

Command

Large Icon

Small Icon

Description

Windows

icon-toolbar-view-windows

icon-small-toolbar-view-windows

Shows or hides the Snap application windows (i.e., Data Explorer and Report Explorer).

Highlight

icon-toolbar-view-highlight

icon-small-toolbar-view-highlight

Highlights the boundaries of a list element after it receives input focus.

The invoked frame displays the type of element that is highlighted.

Fields

Command

Large Icon

Small Icon

Description

Show All Field Codes

icon-toolbar-view-show-field-codes

icon-small-toolbar-view-show-all-field-codes

Toggles to show the field codes of all elements that provide dynamic content in a document.

Show All Field Results

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icon-small-toolbar-view-show-all-field-results

Switches back to the default mode, which displays the actual values fetched by Snap fields supplying dynamic content to a document.

To effectively handle incoming data, only a portion of data is shown during the real-time editing of a document. This restriction does not apply to the document created for print preview, and the report requests all data after it is set for publishing.

When a document is being edited, only the first 20 rows from each data column are shown by default. To modify or disable this limit, use the Editor Row Limit option in the Data Tools: List tab.

Highlight Fields

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icon-small-toolbar-view-highlight-fields

Highlights the data fields that have been added to a document from an external data source, to distinguish these fields from the rest of the document content.