### About Controls

Controls once added to a template determine what information appears and how that information is positioned in your final report. Some controls act as containers for information taken from Datapage+ or other sources (such as ChartObjControl, CadObjControl, TextObjControl, ImageControl, GridControl). Other controls provide organization to your report (such as the RectangleControl and GridLayoutControl). The various text controls let you send textual information from your template or collect it from the user.

Adding and Selecting Controls

To add a control, click a control icon from the Controls toolbar and then drag a box to add it to the main canvas. Once a control is added, you can then select that control by clicking on it from the canvas or by selecting it from the Controls list. Once selected, small handles appear around the control. You can reposition the control and modify it using the Properties Pane. See "The Properties Pane".

Selecting Multiple Controls

You can select multiple objects in one of two ways:

- Click on the Pointer tool and drag a box around the desired objects.

- Press and hold either the CTRL or SHIFT keys while clicking on multiple objects.

Available Items

The following items are available from the Controls toolbar:

- Pointer

- TextBoxControl

- TextBlockControl

- UserTextControl

- GridLayoutControl

- GridControl

- RectangleControl (Border)

- ImageControl

- ChartObjControl

- CadObjControl

- TextObjControl

- ColorMapControl

- LineControl

- EllipseControl

- RectangleShapeControl