Hide a Column in Discoverer Viewer 10.2.1

Hello Forum,
I'm doing a little "Show & Tell" this Friday for our end users on Discoverer Viewer.... I'm not the report writer or the end user, so I'm a great guinea pig for how easy is this tool to use and intuitive is it... here is my problem - I want to customize the format, layout whatever you want to call it of a workbook, a simple task like hiding a column seems to be missing? What's the trick, how does an end user who wants to customize their view of the workbook do a simple thing like hide a column?
thanks
monalisa

Hi Mona
You need to master all of the intricacies of Viewer if you are going to demonstrate it effectively. Viewer is a very, very cool tool with lots of neat features which, in the right hands, is actually much more powerful than it at first appears. I find that the best way to demo it is to focus in on the positives and minimize or not even mention the negatives. Users can usually be blown away by having all of the positives explained before mentioning any of the negatives.
Now that I have passed on some tips for presenting Viewer, something that I do all of the time, let's address your particular question. :-)
There are two ways that I know of, and there could be more, to hide a particular column in Viewer.
The simplest is to move the column to the far right of the report and then tell Viewer to only display n-1 columns, where n = the number of columns in the report. To do this, follow this workflow:
1. Click the Layout link
2. Use the Move option to move the column(s) you don't want to display to the right of the last item that you do want to display
3. Count the number of columns that you want to display
4. Click the Rows and Columns link
5. In Columns type in the number of columns that you want to display
6. Click the Go button
This second method works for tables and crosstabs that don't use Page Items. Use this workflow:
1. Click the Layout link
2. Click the More link
3. For the column(s) you want to hide, click the Up arrow alongside each one and move it to Page Items
4. Uncheck the box called Show Page Items
5. Click the Go button
I hope this helps
Regards
Michael

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