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About Repeating Elements

The Repeating Elements control group on the Page Layout ribbon tool bar tab provides a set of checkboxes which you can check ON and OFF to control which adornment elements (e.g., header, footer, rows/swimlane, etc.) should be repeated on every appropriate page of the output media. The adornment element options available are shown below:

As an example, below is a 2 X 2, Legal Page size, Print Preview View mode illustration of a chart with all five adornment elements turned ON:

To create this example it was necessary to go to the Chart Properties form and establish the values for the five adornment elements. This was done for the Headers/Footers at the Headers/Footers tab of the Chart Properties form. In a similar fashion the Time Axis and the Rows/Swimlane setting were established in the Time Axis tab and Rows/Swimlanes tab of the Chart Properties form, respectively. The Title was entered in the OnePager choices (OPC) form but the Title can be edited in the Main tab of the Chart Properties form after the chart is created. As a OnePager convention, if any of the five adornment elements are established for the chart, they appear on the first pages of the chart regardless of their respective Repeating Element checkbox being checked OFF. For some schedule conversations the amount of information in the above illustration might be too much so we recommend considering the conventions discussed in the next several sections.

OnePager Repeating Elements Conventions

With all five adornment elements turned ON, each page of the multi-page chart contains all the information. In some circumstances, this results in chart with pages that can appear cluttered. To reduce clutter, some of the repeating elements can be turned OFF as discussed below:

Rows and Swimlanes

When the Row/swimlanes checkbox is checked OFF, OnePager only displays the rows and swimlanes (if set for display in the Rows/Swimlanes tab of the Chart Properties form) on the left-hand most pages in the multi-page set as shown here:

Time Axes

In a similar way, if the Time axis checkbox is checked OFF, OnePager only displays the time axis (assuming that the Time Axis feature is turned ON) in the top-most pages of the multi-page chart as shown below:

Footer and Title

For the Footer and Title there is a slightly modified convention. If either or both of these checkboxes are checked OFF, the Footer and/or the Title are only displayed on the first page, that is, the page in the upper-left of the Print Preview View mode screen. In the illustration below both the Footer and the Title checkboxes are checked OFF:

If the Footers are established and turned ON in the Headers/Footers tab of the Chart Properties form they are displayed on the first page of the multi-page output even if the Footers repeating elements checkbox is checked OFF

Header

The Header is treated in the same way as the Footer and Title. When a Header is available, that is specified in the Headers/Footers tab of the Chart Properties form, and the Header checkbox is checked OFF, the Header is only displayed on the top left-most page of the multi-page chart (Page 1).

Repeating Elements Checkboxes in the Chart Properties Form

For your convenience several tabs in the Chart Properties form that relate to the five adornment elements discussed above contain a checkbox called Repeat on all pages. These checkboxes are a convenient and local way to make sure that the adornment element is specified to appear on all multi-page outputs. Turning OFF the checkbox for any of the five adornment elements using the Repeating Elements control group's checkboxes overrides the Repeat on all pages feature anywhere in the Chart Properties form. The same is true for any Repeat on all pages checkboxes checked ON in any of Template Properties form's corresponding tabs.

For more information on the specific controls contained on the various tabs of the Chart Properties form, please consult this series of articles: Editing with the Chart Properties form (Portal) 21.0.1-70

Related Links

View Modes 8.6.1.1-70

Page Setup 8.6.1.2.1-70

Document Fitting 8.6.1.2.2-70

Basic Manual and Global Editing of Multi-Page Output 8.6.2-70

Editing with the Chart Properties form (Portal) 21.0.1-70

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