Maintaining Storyboard

Change Order of Storyboard Items

A Storyboard contains bookmarks that are placed in a particular order. In order to change the order of the bookmarks follow these steps:

1. Open Storyboards menu tab.

   

2. Select the bookmark you want to change the order of and click "Move".

   

3. Select which page to move the report after.

   

4. Press the "Move page" button

From V24.4 onwards, you can edit a storyboard to change the default POV settings for the slides, and/or change the drill behavior of the tables, when in Play mode.

1. Click Play to start the storyboard.

   

2. Edit the storyboard to change the default POV settings for the slides, and/or change the drill behavior of the tables.

3. Click Update view.

   

4. Click Yes, update to save the changes.

   

Change Print Orientation of Storyboard Items 

A Storyboard contains items that have a specific print orientation. In order to change the print orientation of the Storyboard items, follow these steps:

1. Select the bookmark you want to change the print orientation for
2. Press the "Page settings" button

   

3. In the field "Print Orientation" select the correct print orientation. The following options are available:
   • Portrait without comments: This print mode is useful for multicolumn templates with many rows, this mode will allow the most content on one page
   • Portrait with comments: This mode will also print the comments
   • Landscape without comments: With this mode the font of the report will be more readable
   • Landscape with comments: Please note that with this printing mode there will be very little space for comments
4. Press the "Save" button.

   

Copy Storyboard 

You can copy a Storyboard for the following reasons:

• Create a clone form an existing Storyboard so you can change it
• Change the period or entity of all Storyboard items (bookmarks)
• Change the contents of a Storyboard that was sent to you by another user

Take the following steps to copy a Storyboard

1. Open the Storyboards menu tab and select "Copy"

   

2. Enter a new name for the Storyboard
3. Before the Storyboard will be copied you can fix any POV dimension that has been used in the Storyboard. Read more about this in the POV Fixes article.
4. Press "Save" and you can use/edit the new Storyboard

Copy Storyboard to Scripted Storyboard

In some cases you would want to extend an existing standard Storyboard with a Scripted Storyboard. To do this, you can copy a selected Storyboard to a Scripted Storyboard and add the required script. As a result, a new Scripted Storyboard will be created.

Take the following steps:

1. Open the Maintain Storyboard menu to select Copy Selected Storyboard to a Scripted Storyboard

   

2. Enter a new name for a new Scripted Storyboard

3. Complete the required script

   

4. Press "Save" and the new scripted storyboard is ready for use