While in the Report Designer, you can position toolbars on any edge of the client window and in any order. Detaching a dockable toolbar from the frame window is called floating the toolbar. Attaching a floating toolbar to the frame window is called docking the toolbar. A toolbar can be docked to any side of its parent window, or can be floated in its own mini-frame window. Whether the toolbars are docked or floating, you will see the hint for any toolbar button when the cursor is hovered over the button. The Report Designer will remember the last docked/floating setting when closing the designer.
When a toolbar is docked, it will look like this:
On the left side a series of characters are displayed to drag the toolbar into a floating position. The "character" can be one or more dots or pipe symbols "||" based on your operating system and current theme. The dots/pipes are used to drag the toolbar into a floating position.
When floating, the toolbar can be moved by clicking and dragging the caption area and can be resized by clicking and dragging the edge. When a toolbar is floating, it will look like this, where a border is wrapped around the toolbar and the name and a close button (x) is displayed in the caption:
Tips:
•Double click on the caption area of a floating toolbar to dock it to the last location it was docked
•When floating, the "x" is used to hide a toolbar
•The toolbars can be docked on the sides or bottom of the screen to provide a greater work space
•From the menu bar, select the "View" > "Toolbars" option to hide or show any toolbar
