### Edit Slider dialog

This dialog appears after you click on the title bar of a slider and then select Edit Setting. It helps you to edit the slider. See the dialog.

Title

Specifies a title for the slider.

Slider Type

Specifies whether the slider is used to specify a range of values or to specify a single value:

- Range of Values
  If selected, you can select a range of values at runtime.
- Single Value
  If selected, you can select one value at runtime. Not available for numeric data type fields.

Select Fields

Specifies the fields to bind to the slider. All the selected fields should be of the same data type.

The common usage is to select one field, and then based on the field to filter the data of the components created from the same data source as the field.

To filter components using different data sources, choose a common field all the data sources contain and select the field in all the data sources.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

- Predefined Order
  Sorts the view elements in the order defined in the Business View Editor on JReport Designer.
- Resource Types
  Sorts the view elements by resource type, namely category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
- Alphabetical Order
  Sorts the view elements in alphabetical order. Elements that are not in any category will be sorted first, then the categories, and the elements in each category will also be sorted alphabetically.

Launches the quick search toolbar to search for view elements.

- Text box
  The quick search toolbar treats view elements as strings and searches by consecutive text. Type in the text you want to search for in the text box and the matched text will be highlighted among the view elements.
- X
  Closes the quick search toolbar.
- Lists more search options.
  - Highlight All
    Specifies whether to highlight all matched text.
  - Match Case
    Specifies whether to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  - Match Whole Word
    Specifies whether to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
- Highlights the previous matched text.
- Highlights the next matched text.

Customize

Opens the Customize Value dialog for you to customize the values of the selected field.

Apply To

Specifies the data components from the drop-down list to apply the slider to. <All> means all data components involving the selected fields in the dashboard.

OK

Closes this dialog and applies the changes to the slider.

Cancel

Cancels the edition and closes this dialog.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.

###### Related topics:

- Filtering component data