Text Grid View

A text grid view replaces the guidance view in one or more of the work screen views, and is used to display selected text items in a prominent position.

The size of a text item in a text grid view depends on the number of items selected for the view, but is typically larger than in the text ribbon.

Displaying text grid views

In the System Setup menu:

  1. Open Layouts.
  2. Select the layout for the work screen.
  3. Select Text Grid for one or more views, as required.
  4. By default, the text grid view is empty. To add text items to the view:

Configuring a text grid from the System Setup menu

In the System Setup menu:

  1. Open Layouts.
  2. Select the layout and the views you require.
  3. To display a text grid in a view, select Text Grid from the view's drop down menu.
  4. To configure a text grid view tap for that view. The Text Grid Layout menu opens.

  5. The Text Grid Layout menu controls the order in which text items are displayed for a Text Grid view:

    1. Tap, hold, and drag a text item to reposition that text item in the display order. In the Text Grid view, text items are arranged left to right, starting from the top left corner, and wrapping to the next line when a line is full.

    2. To save the text grid display order and return to the work screen, tap Apply.

      Otherwise, to edit the list of text items that may be displayed, Tap Edit. The Edit Text Grid menu opens.

  6. The Edit Text Grid menu lets you add or remove text items from the list of items that may be displayed.

For more information, seeText grid layout restrictions.

Configuring a text grid from the work screen

From a text grid view in the work screen:

  • Long tap on an empty space in a text grid to open a context menu. The context menu lets you add new items to the text grid in the space you tapped. Empty spaces include the spaces between text items already in the grid.
  • Long tap on a text item, and:
    • Drag the item to a new position in the text grid.
    • Remove the item from the text grid.

For more information, see Text grid layout restrictions.

Text grid layout restrictions

You can add any number of text items to a text grid, however the following restrictions apply:

  1. For TD520 and TD540 displays, the maximum number of text items that can be displayed per view in a configured layout is:

    1. One View layout: 16

    2. Two View layout: 12 per view

    3. Three View layout: 2 per Views 1 and 2, and 15 for View 3

    NOTE – For smaller displays the number of text items that can be displayed in a text grid view will be reduced.

  2. If you select more than the maximum displayable text items for a view, the text items are displayed in the order they are listed in the Text Grid Layout menu for that view.
  3. The displayed size of individual text items depends on the display size, and the number of text items chosen for display in a particular view.