When you are first working with your Drop Down you are able to add a caption. However, if you did not add one at that stage, or want to make edits to it, you have the following options in the Properties Pane.

 

1. Right click on the Drop Down that you want to open the Properties Pane for.

 

2. From the resulting contextual menu select the Properties option.

 

Figure 1: The Properties option highlighted in the contextual menu.

 

3. Select the Caption target object in the Navigation Bar.

 

Figure 3: The caption target object is selected.

 

4. View the Drop Down Caption options as highlighted below.

 

Showing or Hiding the Caption

1. To hide the Caption section of the selected Drop Down, simply deselect the Display Caption check box.

 

 

Figure 4: The caption for the filter is hidden.

 

2. Similarly if the Caption has been hidden and you would like to show it, select the Display Captioncheck box.

 

Figure 5: The caption for the filter is displayed.

 

Formatting the Text

Here you will be able to formatting the text of just the Caption, independently of the rest of the Drop Down. You will have the similar font options as you did when working with Changing List Fonts.

 

Adding a Border

You will have the option to add a border directly to the Caption, independent of the entire Drop Down.

 

1. Select the color you would like the boarder to be. Similarly to the color options for List Fonts you will be able to select from one of the predefined colors or create your own to meet your needs.

 

Figure 6: Change border color.

 

2. Select how thick you would like to boarder to be in the out put.

 

Figure 7: Thickness size of 4 was selected.

 

3. Select the sides of the diagram to indicate where you would like to have borders on your filter.

 

Figure 8: Borders were added to the whole diagram.

 

NOTE: When making any changes to the border options (color or thickness) you will need to first deselect then reselect the boarder in the diagram to apply the changes.

 

Adding or Editing a Caption

In the Title section you will be able to add a Caption, if you have not already done so, or you can edit the Caption that is there to better describe the selected Drop Down.

 

Showing or Hiding the Context Menu

The Context Menu will allow your dashboard user to be able to export the selected Drop Down widget to a verity of outputs directly from the dashboard. Also this menu will allow the dashboard user to hide or show the legend of the Drop Down from the dashboard itself.

 

Next Steps

Changing Drop Down Fonts - Learn about the different options available for Drop Down Fonts.

Adding Drop Down Boarders - Learn how to add a border to the Drop Down.

Drop Down Colors - Lean about the different color options for the Drop Down Filter.

Drop Down Data Properties - This section explains how to update and work with the data in the filter.