Senior Vice-President of HCM Solutions Danielle Larocca has worked in the SAP HCM space for over 20 years. An SAP Mentor and featured speaker at numerous conferences, Danielle has authored four best-selling books on SAP, is the Technical Editor for the SAP Professional Journal, and often the Voice of the Expert on SAPInsider’s Ask the Expert series for HR.
I recently spoke to someone in the HR department of a large company who wanted to know more about how Document Builder could help them with some of their specific needs in designing impressive HR documents. One of the benefits offered by Document Builder is the Grid Control option which enables you to easily display information in a structured way. This blog explains more about how the Grid Control works.
The Grid control in Document Builder is used to provide a structured way of displaying information.
Supported features of the Grid control include:
At the moment a Grid cannot dynamically add rows or columns. To dynamically add rows, the Table control should be used.
The grid allows for flexibility of its cells, to structure and style data to fit the document designer's need.
The options to change the layout of a cell or cells can be found on the Grids context menu. As shown in the image below:
Each of these options is now explained in more detail below:
Insert column
You can add columns to the Grid control. Columns can be added on the left or right of any selected cells column.
Remove row
Rows can be removed if they are not needed. This will remove the row(s) of the selected cell(s).
Remove column
Columns can be removed if they are not needed. This will remove the columns(s) of the selected cell(s).
Merge cells
To merge cells, you can select multiple cells and use the 'Merge' option. When doing so, multiple cells will be merged into a single cell spanning multiple columns and/or rows.
Unmerge cells
To unmerge cells, select a previously merged cell and select the "Unmerge" option. When doing so, the cell will be split into its original set of cells. See the example below.
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