Floating and Non-Floating Elements on Pages
In Compose, visual elements such as dynamic images, widgets, text fields, and so on might be floating or non-floating.
Non-floating components are limited to the page chart area - they cannot exceed its area. All non-floating components land in the same layer, so they cannot overlap each other [each other non-floating components].
Floating components, on the other hand, can be freely positioned on the page.
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Each component lands in its own layer, so they can being arranged freely. Such elements can overlap other floating components and can overlap non-floating components.
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There is no possibility of overlapping one and be below the other non-floating component.
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Floating components can be placed below the page title or footnotes.
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Floating components can be partially visible and be rotated.
The below elements are always non-floating:
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Visualizations, grid widgets, data widgets, gauge widgets
The below elements are always floating:
Some elements can be either floating or non-floating, and if you want to change the default property of the elements, press the space bar:
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Text, dynamic images, regular images
Once you drag and drop the element, the instructions for switching the selection to “non-floating”/"floating" will appear near the bottom left corner of the page.
To change the selection, press the space bar.
Instructions for copying the selection will also appear here, too.
There is a possibility of moving the non-floating and floating components by using arrows on a keyboard.
Pressing any arrow moves components by 1 unit in a given direction. Pressing any arrow with shift moves components by 10 units in a given direction.
In summary:
When a text field or image is in floating mode, it:
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Can be freely placed on the page, not just limited to the chart area
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When a text field or image is in non-floating mode, it:
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Can be placed only in the chart area
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Cannot overlap other charts
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