We will now open more Navigators and the Custom Tokens window, and dock them to demonstrate the features of docking with multiple windows. Please refer to the beginning of this tutorial for details on docking.

The Data Navigator window will appear on the layout.

The layout now has two windows docked, Gate Navigator on the bottom and Data Navigator on the left, as shown in Figure T11.12.

 

 

The Layout Navigator appears on the layout. We will now dock the Layout Navigator to the left side of the layout.

When you first start to drag the Layout Navigator, the four-headed arrow and the single arrow docking icons, appear at all the possible docking locations (Figure T11.13). The four-headed arrows are indicated by red circles, and the single arrows by blue circles in Figure T11.13. Once you begin moving the Layout Navigator, the docking icons fade away and the only docking icons visible are those that indicate the current docking site. The four-headed arrow docking icon will only appear within a specific docking site and indicates the possible docking locations at that site. The single docking arrows, indicated by the blue circles in Figure T11.13, always appear to the left, bottom, right, and top of the layout page and indicate that these docking sites are always available.

 

 

As you move the Layout Navigator towards the left side of the layout, the four-headed arrow docking icon appears at the left docking site, indicated by the red circle in Figure T11.14. The four-headed arrow docking icon indicates the possible docking locations for the Layout Navigator. The single docking arrow on the far left indicates that the window can be docked all the way to the left of the currently docked Data Navigator.

 

 

The Layout Navigator is now docked to the right of the Data Navigator, on the left side of the layout, as shown by Figure T11.15. Note that it was docked inside the previous Data Navigator, i.e., both new docked windows take up the same amount of space as the Data Navigator did.

 

Note that the windows docked on the layout are highlighted on the ribbon (Figure 15). We will now dock the Custom Tokens window on the layout. However, this time we will dock it on top of the Layout Navigator.

The Custom Tokens window appears on the layout.

When the Custom Tokens is on top of the Layout Navigator the four-headed arrows docking icon appears (Figure T11.16).

You will know you are in the correct place because the blue rectangle indicates the proposed docking location.

 

 

The Custom Tokens window is now docked on the left side of the layout, on top of the Layout Navigator, as shown in Figure T11.17. Notice that at the bottom of the docked Custom Tokens window there is a tab labeled Custom Tokens. However, we want to see the tabs for both docked windows so we will now resize the docked windows to make them larger.

 

 

 

 

We will now explore the benefits of using Auto Hide when multiple windows are docked in one location.

The Data Navigator is now docked on top of both Custom Tokens and Layout Navigator, as shown in Figure T11.19. If you can’t see all three tabs, then resize the docked windows to make them wider.

 

 

The Auto Hide feature is now applied to all three docked windows, and only the tabs for the docked windows are visible, as shown in Figure T11.20. To see a docked window, move the cursor over the respective tab of the window you wish to see.

 

 

In the last section, we will undock a window.