Changing the display of design views

The View palette works with design views in the same way it works with navigation and links views. The Design tab of the palette has controls for viewing collections, for orientation, and for the display of peripheral panes. The Display tab has controls for how objects appear in the diagram. The Grid tab has controls for the grid, collision avoidance, and the canvas.

Note: Collections are custom sets of page files, which can be visually identified by spotlighting. (See Creating and using collections.)

To specify how objects appear in a design diagram:

In the Display tab of the View palette, do any of the following:

• Specify whether to display master items, which appear on each canvas page, and whether to display breaks between pages.
• Specify whether to display staging icons next to pages. The Anchor Page icon  identifies the page used to anchor a diagram to a site. The Generic Page icon  indicates that a file for the page has been created but not edited or submitted. The Real Page icon  indicates that the page file has been created and edited, but not submitted. The Live Page icon  indicates that the page has been submitted, and that the page file has moved to its target folder in the site.
• Specify whether to show pages, sections, and custom objects as icons, thumbnails, frames, ovals, or icon frames. Ovals are oval if the frame size is set to Wide. Otherwise, they are circles.
• Specify how to label pages in the design diagram. You can use as labels the page titles entered in the Page Title text box of the Page Inspector, the filenames of the pages, or design names entered in the Name text box in the Page Inspector.
• Select Multiline Text to allow long labels to wrap to multiple lines, or Overhang Text to allow the labels to grow horizontally. If you select neither option, long labels are truncated.
• Choose a frame size to set the amount of space around objects displayed as icons, or to set the size of objects displayed as thumbnails, frames, ovals, or icon frames. If you are using icon frames, the best choice for frame size is Wide.
• Click the Item Color box to select a custom color from the Color palette.

To set options for the grid or for collision avoidance:

1. In the Grid tab of the View palette, do any of the following:
• Select Visible to display horizontal or vertical grid lines, or both. You can also show or hide the grid by choosing View > Show Grid or View > Hide Grid.
• Select Snap to snap objects in the diagram to the horizontal or vertical grid lines, or to both.
• Select Collision Avoidance to have other objects move out of the way when you move or insert an object in a diagram.
2. If you selected the grid or collision avoidance, enter values in the Horizontal and Vertical text boxes to specify the spacing between grid lines or the avoidance area.

If you are using both the grid and collision avoidance, make the collision avoidance values multiples of the grid values.

To set canvas options:

In the Grid tab of the View palette, do any of the following:

• Select Canvas Is Single Page to prevent the design view canvas from expanding beyond one page. This option deselects the other options.
• Select the Auto options to allow the canvas to expand as necessary to contain objects added to the diagram. The canvas expands or shrinks in increments of pages.
• Enter values for Page Rows and Columns to constrain the canvas to the specified number of rows and columns in the grid.

To expand a view of a design diagram:

1. Choose Panorama Pane from the diagram window menu, or select Panorama in the Design tab of the View palette. The panorama pane opens, showing the current design view and any parts of the diagram that extend beyond it. (See Using the peripheral panes of the site views.)
2. Move the view box in the panorama pane to view different parts of the diagram.

You can also expand a view by zooming out.