How to Maintain Alignment for Collapsed Items through Sessions ?

Some questions arrived on why if items which are part of an hierarchy are collapsed, they loose the format definition like alignment ?

Well, this is expected behavior. Indeed, every time an item is removed from the layout and added back in a different session it's treated as completely new item and doesn't matter whether it is part of an hierarchy or not. Indeed, this is because the format layout of items is defaulted in the EUL, and in Discoverer Desktop one can maintain control of the format only on the session not on the default properties like alignment.

So, to make alignment persistent on Discoverer Desktop, the default properties for that item should be changed in Discoverer Administrator :

1.) Open the business area on Discoverer Administrator ;
2.) Expand the folder where the item reside ;
3.) Right Click on that item and select Properties ;
4.) On properties dialog box, select the wanted alignment