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Much of the text that appears in an InstantAtlas report can be configured

using general properties. All static tooltips, for example, appear in the list

of general properties and can be edited. The labels for the legend types

that are displayed in the legend dialog and all of the text you see in the

Context Menu can be changed as well. This is important to ensure that the

InstantAtlas templates can be made multilingual – it must be possible for

the person designing the report to change all visible text. Note that not all

text is configurable via the Designer though. Theme and indicator names,

for example, are read from the XML data files and must be changed there.

C.4.2.3. Configuring the Contextual Menu (Right Mouse Button Menu)

When you right-click on any place in the report you will get a contextual

menu with different options. Figure 67 is the context menu and is how it

looks like by default.

Figure 67

In the general properties of the Designer you can adjust which of these

options the end-user should see in the context menu. The three bottom

ones ‘Settings...’, ‘Global Settings...’ and ‘About Adobe Flash Player

[version number]...’ cannot be removed since these are provided by the

Flash player itself.

Context Menu: Clear Selection? – Allows the user to clear all selected

features with one click. We suggest that you always leave this in the

context menu.

Context Menu: Clear Comparison Selection? – This option is not

included by default in the context menu but if your report contains

comparison areas and you enabled the comparison table you may like to

have this option in the context menu so that the end-user can clear the

selection he or she has made in the comparison table.

In InstantAtlas HTML dynamic reports there is no context menu to

ensure touch screen friendliness. Some of the functions (Clear

Selection, Filter Selection, Clear Filter, Print, Export) can be

accessed via toolbars in the report. This section therefore applies to

the Flash dynamic reports only.