Info Panels

An info panel is a popup defined within a data query that can include the results returned by that query, and is accessible to the links within that query. You can define these modal windows in the Info Panels section at the bottom of the Queries & Reports page. The Add Panel button on this section allows you to define a new Info Panel along with its general attributes.

The Code of an info panel identifies the popup to the system and on the Queries & Reports page, and must be unique within the report. The code is not displayed on the popup at runtime, however. Instead, the other general attributes of the popup identify the popup to the user:

• The Caption appears on the colored bar at the top of the panel, analogous to the location of "Edit Modal Panel" on the panel shown in the screenshot above.
• The Title field appears at the top of the content section of the popup, and the Subtitle field appears as subtext to the title.

These general attributes typically identify the query result for which the panel has been opened and the type of information to be included in the panel, but the purpose of an info panel is to provide additional substantive information about a query result. The series of panel elements constituting the body of the info panel serve this purpose.

Beyond these general attributes, the body of an info panel comprises a series of Panel Elements; where the general attributes of a popup typically identify the query result for which the panel has been opened or the type of information included in the panel, these panel elements can provide additional substantive information about the query result for which the panel has been opened.

The panel elements of the selected popup appear in a table at the bottom of the Info Panels section of the Queries & Reports page, and can be added using the "Add Panel Element" button, modified or deleted using the edit and delete buttons in the rightmost column of the table. There are four types of elements that can be added to an info panel:

• Text– which displays some line or block of text on the info panel. This type of panel element consists of two fields: a Label, which identifies the piece of information listed, and Value, the actual information you wish to display on the info panel.
• Text Box– which displays text on an info panel as a block with a minimum number of rows. This type of panel element also contains a Label and a Value, as well as a Rows field, dictating the minimum height of the text box. If you set the Rows attribute to 3, for example, the panel will display a text box with the height of three rows as long as the Value fits within that space; if the Value is too long to fit in a box of that size, the text box will expand vertically to accommodate it.
• Custom– which displays a custom block of HTML code. This HTML block has access to all the target fields of the query and all the predefined EL functions of the system, using the typical ${} format.
• New Column– which causes all subsequent panel elements to be shifted into a column to the right of the previous panel elements.

The below screenshot shows a caption at runtime, including the locations of the Caption, Title, and Subtitle. The panel shown contains four panel elements: a Text element, a New Column element, a Text Box element, and a Custom element, in that order.