# General settings The general display settings are used to customize the appearance of the report. In the Inforiver toolbar, navigate to the Home ribbon. The *Settings* option is available in the 'Actions' section. Click **Settings > Display Settings** to open up the Display side panel.

### 1. Toolbar The toolbar option allows you to change the color of the toolbar to 'Light' or 'Dark'. In the example, the color of the toolbar is set to Dark and the changes are reflected in the toolbar at the top and the side panel.

### 2. Canvas The canvas section contains options to set the overall appearance of the report. * **Theme** * **Background** * **Text** * **Header Text** #### i) Theme The theme option lets you change the theme of the Inforiver visual to 'Light' or 'Dark'. In the example, the Dark theme is chosen.

#### ii) Background You can change the background color of the canvas using this option.

#### iii) Text You can change the color of the text/values in the visual using this option.

#### iv) Header text You can change the color of the header text in the visual using this option.

### 3. Outline This option allows you to set the outline for the visual. If you enable this option, a color picker is enabled. The color picker allows you to select the color of the outline. We have set a blue outline for the grid below.

### 4. Row highlight This option allows you to highlight the rows in the report. The various row highlight options are: * **Row Hover** * **Row Alternate** * **Row Alternate Contrast** * **Row Alternate Flashy** * **Off** #### **i) Row hover** Highlights the row upon hovering over them. If you enable this option, the following options are displayed: **Row text color** - This option allows you to set the text color of the row on hover **Row background color** - This option allows you to set the background color of the row on hover In the image below, the row text color is set to blue, and the row background color to grey on hover.

**ii) Row alternate -** Highlights alternate rows. All of the row highlight options are customized with predefined colors. By default, all the tables are configured with the 'Row alternate' highlight option. If you enable this option, the following options are displayed: **Odd row** - This option allows you to set the color of the odd rows **Even row** - This option allows you to set the color of the even rows The row alternate highlight is shown in the below image.

**iii) Row alternate contrast -** Highlights the odd and even rows with contrasting color shades by default. If you enable this option, the **Odd row** and **Even row** options are displayed.

**iv) Row alternate flashy -** Highlights the odd and even rows with flashy color shades. If you enable this option, the **Odd row** and **Even row** options are displayed.

You can remove the row highlight by selecting the 'off' option from the drop-down. Enable the ***Measure Only Highlight*** option to remove the highlight from the categories and highlight just the measures.

Row highlight is applied only to measures

### 5. Gridlines #### **i) Major gridlines** Use this option to set major gridlines for the parent rows in the visual. You can select from the following values: * **Single -** This option will insert a single gridline to the parent rows * **Double -** This option will insert a double gridline to the parent rows * **Off** - This option will turn off the major gridlines If the 'Single' or 'Double' option is selected for the major gridlines, then a color picker is enabled. Using the color picker, you can customize the color of the single/double major gridlines. In the below example, 'Double' major gridlines are inserted and their colors are set to blue.

If 'Off' is selected, the major gridlines will not be displayed. This option is set to 'Off' by default. #### ii) Minor gridlines You can add **Horizontal**, **Header**, and **Vertical** properties for minor gridlines. #### Horizontal This option lets you set the horizontal gridlines for child rows. You can select from the following options: * **Solid lines** * **Dashed lines** * **Off**

If the 'Solid Lines' or 'Dashed Lines' option is selected for the horizontal gridlines, then a color picker is enabled. Using the color picker, you can customize the color of the single/double horizontal gridlines. You can also set the number of rows to skip between 2 consecutive lines. In the example, 'Solid' horizontal gridlines are inserted and their colors are set to red. 1 row is skipped between lines.

#### Skip lines This option allows you to set the minor grid line gap between the rows. {% hint style="info" %} The minimum and maximum skip line values are 1 and 10 respectively. {% endhint %}

#### Header This option lets you insert gridlines for the column headers. If this option is enabled, then a color picker option becomes available next to it. Using the color picker option you can customize the color of the header gridline. {% hint style="info" %} The color of the header gridline is the same as that of the horizontal gridlines by default. {% endhint %}

If you change the color of the header gridline, the color of the horizontal gridlines also gets changed accordingly.

#### Vertical This option lets you insert vertical lines between columns. You can select from the following options: * **Solid -** This option will insert solid vertical lines to the right of each column. * **Off** - This option will turn off the vertical lines If the 'Solid lines' option is selected for the vertical lines, a color picker option is enabled. Using the color picker you can customize the color of the solid vertical lines. In the example, Solid vertical gridlines are inserted and their colors are set to red.

### 6. Table padding This option allows you to insert spacing/padding for the table from the top, bottom, left, and right. Any padding applied will reflect in PDF exports. {% hint style="info" %} The minimum and maximum padding values are 0 and 100 respectively. {% endhint %}

### 7. Custom date format You can set a specific date format for date dimensions in rows or columns. Enable the Custom Date Format option to select the format from the Date category dropdown. This option can be used for non-hierarchical date fields, flat date hierarchies, and Power BI date hierarchies.

You can specify individual formats for year, quarter, month, and day. Expand the Valid formats information box to browse through the list of date formats supported in Inforiver.

### 8. Enable canvas rendering When you have a large number of row and column categories in your report, you can switch to a high-performance canvas grid – making your scrolling and interactions faster and smoother.

Please note that when you enable high-performance canvas rendering, the 'Freeze Total' option will be disabled in the [single-page view](https://docs.inforiver.com/working-with-inforiver/8.-paginated-reporting/pagination#i-single-page).

{% hint style="info" %} You do not need to enable this option in Inforiver Writeback Matrix; by default, a new report is created in high-performance canvas mode. {% endhint %} ### 9. Localization settings You can configure translations in Inforiver based on the language settings in Power BI. If your report has a global audience, you can configure calculated rows/columns or column groups to display dimension categories based on pre-defined translations when the language is switched. Navigate to Display Settings > General > Localization Settings to create translation entries.

Use the GETLOCALELABEL function in the Title field and pass the Key specified in the translation config.

Notice how the row categories and column groups are implicitly changed to French and German.

### 10. **Date dimension in YYYY-MM-DD in writeback** {% hint style="info" %} This setting is available only in Writeback Matrix {% endhint %} Users can choose to apply either the visual’s displayed date format or specify a custom date format when writing back data. When the **Date dimension in YYYY-MM-DD in writeback** toggle is turned off, the date format in the visual is preserved and written back as-is. Enable the toggle to writeback in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Display setting for configuring Writeback date formats

The screenshots show how dates are written back when the toggle is enabled vs disabled.

Visual date format written back when the toggle is disabled

Date format changed to YYY-MM-DD when the toggle is enabled

You can also enable the **Custom Date Format** toggle to specify a particular format. {% hint style="success" %} The Date dimension in YYYY-MM-DD in writeback toggle needs to be disabled to write back a custom date format. {% endhint %}

The same format will be used in the visual and written back.

In this section, we covered the general display settings. Navigate to the next section to learn more about [hierarchy settings](https://docs.inforiver.com/display-settings/hierarchy-settings).