Toolbar -

• Save - Click to save changes to application options.

• Help - Click to open help that is specific to working with application options.

Background Color - Use this setting to control the background of the home page, Stratum View Pane, and view grid area. Use the Browse button to browse to a color selection window

Page Size - This setting controls how many objects display per page in windows where lists of objects display. For example, the setting controls page size in the View list, User List, Role, Select Members, Select User, and Select User List Filter windows. There are many page sizes to choose from, as low as 25 or as high as 5000 objects per page.

Group Name Format - This property controls the format of group names in the Stratum View Pane. Click the Browse button to open a window where you can customize group background and font color, the font and size, font style (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), and font effect (such as underline). This property shows a preview of what your group format selections will look like once applied. Click the Reset link to restore to the default look.

View Name Format – This property controls the format of view names in the Stratum View Pane. Click the Browse button to open a window where you can customize background and font color, the font and size, font style (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), and font effect (such as underline). This property shows a preview of what your view name format selections will look like once applied. Click the Reset link to restore to the default look.

Properties That Control Default Look Of All View Grids – The properties described below control the default look assigned to the grid for all views.* Properties available to control the look of the grid are:

• Base Color - The fill color for all cells in rows and columns.

• Alternating Row Color - A secondary fill color used for every other row in grid.

• Total Row Color - The fill color for subtotal and grand total rows and columns.

• Border Color – The color for borders in the grid. You can give the grid an appearance of having no visible borders by setting this Border color to be the same as the Base color for the grid. That will make the borders blend into the grid background. For example, make borders white if the Base color is white. 

• Data Captions Font - The font, font size, and font color used for captions of measure items, levels, and attribute relationships in the grid.

• Data Values Font - The font, font size, and font color used for values of measures in the grid.

If you want to revert a property back to its default, click Reset for the property. Resetting all properties reverts to a default look of white for the base, alternating, and total row fill colors; light gray borders; font settings of Segoe UI/Black/12pt for all captions; and font settings of Segoe UI/Black/12pt for all measure item values in the grid.  

*Note: All of these properties can be overridden by users in their individual views.

Page Size, Rows and Columns - Controls how many rows and columns display per page for views that use paging. Enter a numeric value in the Rows and Columns fields. Security administrators can define different view page sizes for particular users through User Profile settings. Individual users can override administrator settings and define their own, custom view page sizes for all views through an override setting in their User Options or for individual views through a view’s Display Options.

The Planning Update Format property controls the cell and text formatting that will be applied in a measure item’s cell when planning updates are made in a view. Click the Browse button  to access the Select Format window. In that window, you can edit the cell background color and the font color, style, and effect. In the example below, cells will be assigned a yellow background and text will appear in red, italic font when planning updates are made.

These administrative settings control the format of planning updates for all users. Security administrators can define different planning update formats for particular users through User Profile settings. Individual users can override administrator settings and define their own, custom planning format through an override setting in their User Options.

Note: The Planning Update formats only apply to pending planning changes. For example, once you submit your planning changes and the grid refreshes, changed values will display in the same standard format as other values in the grid.

Settings in the Measure Item Caption Expression section control the captions that will be assigned to new measure items created in views by default. Users can customize captions within each view if they prefer a caption other than the application default. If you change the application default, the captions of existing measure items will remain as is. Only new measures items added to views after your change will be assigned the new default. You can set up unique caption defaults for each type of measure item.

The fields in this section are read only, but you can click the Browse button next to each field to access the Caption Expression window and customize the caption default. See also Edit Application Defaults for Measure Item Captions.

• Regular with Time Range - The expression that will determine caption defaults of regular measure items with time ranges. The default will be the following unless you make adjustments to this application setting.

 [Measure][From Period Short Desc] [From Year YYYY] to [To Period Short Desc] [To Year YYYY]

• Regular - The expression that will determine caption defaults of regular measure items without time. The default will be the following unless you make adjustments to this application setting.

[Measure]

• Calculated - The expression that will determine caption defaults of calculated measure items. The default will be the following unless you make adjustments to this application setting.

[Name]

Font Name and Size – Click the Change button and use the Select Font window to control the font type for data for Excel spreadsheets generated by Stratum.Viewer’s Export to Excel and Stratum Broadcast Manager functionality. To control the font size of that data, enter the numeric size in the Font Size field.