Modify Page layout

A Page is composed of one or more regions. Regions are simply containers for Page content. You can modify the default layout of a Page to have whatever regions you need to show your content the way you want it. You can select a Layout as well as add, remove, split or resize regions.

Select a layout

Each Page type has a default layout:

  • Info Page has one region occupying the full width of the Page.

  • LiveReport Page has three regions: one occupying the full width of the Page, and two occupying half the width of the page.

When you first create a new page, you may want a layout different from the default. Several pre-defined Page layouts are available, which may provide the layout you want, or at least a good starting point for your custom layout. You can also apply one of the pre-defined layouts to an existing page. The Page content is preserved, but it may not appear where you want it in the changed layout. You can either copy content to a different region, or use the Undo button to revert the change. (Redo is available as well.)

You can access the pre-defined layout selectors in the Layout section of the Page Properties sidebar. The options are:

  • Three regions: Top one at 100% of page width, two below at 75% and 25% of page width.

  • Three regions: Top one at 100% of page width, two below at 50% of page width.

  • Three regions: Top one at 100% of page width, three below at approximately 33% of page width.

  • One region at 100% of page width.

You can also specify the minimum width of the Page in this sidebar. The width is in pixels, and the default value is 1000. In view mode in a browser, it sets the minimum width of the Page. If there is some wide content such as an image that cannot be scaled, this setting can increase minimum Page width so that the content is completely visible in the parent region.

In PDF export, the Minimal Width value is used to define page width of the PDF document, providing the possibility to preserve the layout. If wide content is included in an insufficiently wide page, it will be scaled (zoomed out).

Add or remove regions

You can add a region to the page by placing a new one, or splitting an existing one, using the following commands on the header of an existing region:

  • Add Region Above: Adds a new region above the current region.

  • Add Region Below: Adds a new region below the current region.

  • Split Region: Splits the current region into two, moving the current region, including its content, to the left and adding a new empty region to the right. Content of the original region may be scaled to fit the changed width.

You can remove a region from the page using the Remove Region command on the drop-down menu of the region's header.

Resize a region

If you have multiple regions next to each other in a column-like arrangement, you can resize them horizontally by dragged the separator that appears in the space between the regions. Vertical size of regions is determined by their content and cannot be changed manually.