Miscellaneous settings

Learn how to use the Miscellaneous settings under the Display section such as view options, status Bar, and cell settings to enhance usability and fully customize your Power BI reports with Inforiver.

1. View

1.1. Visual context menu

When the Visual context menu toggle is enabled, a context menu is displayed when you right-click a row in the report.

Visual context menu

1.2. Header word wrap

When the Header Word Wrap option is enabled, the header content is wrapped according to the height of the cell. The image below shows how the headers are displayed when the header word wrap option is disabled.

Header word wrap disabled

You will be able to see the entire header when word wrap is enabled.

Header word wrap enabled

1.3. Quick shortcuts

This option lets you add quick shortcut icons in the Actions section. The Undo, Redo, Export as Excel, and Best Fit options are selected by default. You can select additional options, including Export PDF, Aggregation, and Smart Analysis. The shortcuts for all the selected options will be displayed in the Actions section.

Quick shortcuts

1.4. Show info logo

You can click on the Inforiver Table logo at the bottom right-hand corner of the visual to get a synopsis of the report. You can quickly verify the license details and statistics, like the number of measures and rows in your report.

Enable the Show Info Logo option.

Show info logo

Show info logo

1.5. Show info messages

You can disable this option if you do not wish to see pop-up notifications and info messages

Show info messages

1.6. Absolute sort

Enabling this option will sort measures based on their magnitude, regardless of whether the value is positive or negative.

Notice how the values are sorted desc based on magnitude when absolute sort is turned on.

Absolute sort disabled

Absolute sort enabled

1.7. Show measure header

The column or measure headers will be hidden if this option is disabled.

Show measure header disabled

Show measure header enabled

1.8. Fiscal year start month

Inforiver supports planning, budgeting, and forecasting for fiscal periods as well. You can set the start month of the fiscal year using this option.

Fiscal year start month

1.9. Show floating toolbar

When the main toolbar has been unpinned, you will still be able to apply cell-level formatting, show/hide cell values, and add comments using the floating toolbar. Disable this option if you do not require the floating toolbar.

Show floating toolbar

1.10. Diagnose

This option can be enabled if you wish to mask your data and generate random values when the data is being shared, and security is a concern.

1.11. Allow native measure editing in read view

If this option is enabled, report users in the reading view can update native measures.

1.12. Increase scroll thickness

You can increase the thickness of the horizontal and vertical scrollbars using by enabling this option.

Increase scroll thickness

1.13. Populate missing AC with FC

When you have actual and forecast measures in your report, if the AC values are missing for a particular category, Inforiver can populate FC values instead of AC.

Populate missing AC with FC disabled

Populate missing AC with FC enabled

1.14. Selection border

You can optionally remove the border box that is rendered when a cell/column/row is selected. The border box will not be displayed when the Selection Border toggle is disabled from display settings.

Selection border box enabled

Selection border box disabled

1.15. Show column filter

Easily filter your data by keying in the value in the search textboxes that are enabled when you turn on this toggle. Click the filter icon to select the comparison.

Show column filter

2. Status bar

2.1. Show status bar

You can show/hide the status bar with this option. If this option is enabled, the Status Panel Aggregation option becomes available.

2.2. Status panel aggregation

The Status Panel Aggregation option allows you to show the aggregation, such as sum, average, min, max, and count, for the values selected in the visual. In the example below, you can see the sum, average, and count aggregation for the selected values/measures in the status bar.

Only a maximum of three aggregations are displayed in the status bar.

Status panel aggregation

3. Cell/row/column

3.1. Global error handling

Inforiver provides a global error handling setting that internally handles missing reference errors and converts the missing values to 0 when used in calculations.

Caculation works without errors when the setting is on

Notice how a missing reference error is displayed when the error handling setting is disabled.

Global error handling

3.2. Edit cell indicator

This option allows you to identify the edited/modified cell values in the visual. If you enable this option, the modified cell values are indicated by a pencil icon next to the corresponding values.

Edit cell indicator

3.3. Show row indicator

You can identify manually inserted rows by enabling this option. A pencil icon is displayed next to data input or calculated rows.

row indicator

3.4. Column spacing

This option allows you to adjust the spacing between the columns. If this option is turned on, you can specify the required column spacing in the input field.

The minimum and maximum values of column spacing are 0 and 20, respectively.

Column spacing

3.5. Column reorder

This option allows you to reorder the columns. If this option is turned on, you can drag and drop columns to change their order.

Column reorder