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# Panel
**Category**: Control
**Version**: 1.0
**Last Updated**: May 27, 2026
**Author**: Any2Info
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### Description
The Panel control allows a dashboard to have multiple controls anchored to a single control. Any Control within a Panel will behave like the Panel Control is its parent and thus move along with it.
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### General Properties
The Panel control inherits general control Properties such as Position and Size
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### Special Properties
The Panel control has 3 special properties:
| Name | Value | Explanation |
| --------------- | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Panel direction | Up/Down/Left/Right/None | The direction in which the panel opens, if closed. None means it can not be opened or closed manually |
| Open | Boolean | The initial state of the Panel |
| Scrolling | Boolean | If the Panel should allow scrolling |
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### Tips & Best Practices
* If the information within the Panel is important, set the initial state to open
* If the Panel is not to be closed or opened, set the Panel direction property to none
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### Examples
Below is the most basic example of a Panel control, containing a simple dropdown as an example. Note that the background colour has been changed from the default, to better highlight the open/close icon at the top of the Panel.
Given that the Panel is set to open upwards, when closed it will appear as below, where it is anchored at the bottom of the top image.
The “anchoring” is dependent on where to the Panel opens.
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### Changelog
| **Version** | **Date** | **Change** |
| ----------- | ------------ | -------------------------------- |
| 1.0 | May 27, 2026 | Initial document & documentation |
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