# Quick grid question... **URL:** \ **Category:** Module Design\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/quick-grid-question/5488 "2012-12-09T16:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ijthompson](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/ijthompson/32/128_2.png) [@ijthompson](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/ijthompson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/quick-grid-question/5488/1 "2012-12-09T16:53:22Z")
I’ve been pouring over the Designer’s Guide and can’t find an answer to this question; I’m sure it must have a simple solution, so I thought I’d just ask. My board has a Multi-Zone Grid with quite a few zones on it. They’re fine, but when it comes to movement reporting, any place outside the zones that a player might move a piece is reported as ‘offboard’. I don’t need anything fancy here, but I’d really like movement outside the zones to report as ‘the board’, or ‘a space’, or something. I tried laying a Rectangular Grid over the whole board, thinking that it would fill those spaces, but it wiped out all my Zones! So I’m gonna have to rebuild them, and I want to make sure I do it right. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_M](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/tim_m/32/2_2.png) [@Tim\_M](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/Tim_M)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/quick-grid-question/5488/2 "2012-12-09T17:23:07Z")
Define a zone that encompasses the entire graphic area call it “the board”. That will remove the offboard msg Like traits zone/grid order is important or you wipe out your previous zones as you discovered - just reverse the ordering -----Original Message----- From: [messages-bounces@vassalengine.org](mailto:messages-bounces@vassalengine.org) [[mailto:messages-bounces@vassalengine.org](mailto:messages-bounces@vassalengine.org)] On Behalf Of ijthompson Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 10:53 AM To: [messages@vassalengine.org](mailto:messages@vassalengine.org) Subject: [messages] [Module Design] Quick grid question… I’ve been pouring over the Designer’s Guide and can’t find an answer to this question; I’m sure it must have a simple solution, so I thought I’d just ask. My board has a Multi-Zone Grid with quite a few zones on it. They’re fine, but when it comes to movement reporting, any place outside the zones that a player might move a piece is reported as ‘offboard’. I don’t need anything fancy here, but I’d really like movement outside the zones to report as ‘the board’, or ‘a space’, or something. I tried laying a Rectangular Grid over the whole board, thinking that it would fill those spaces, but it wiped out all my Zones. So I’m gonna have to rebuild them, and I want to make sure I do it right. Any ideas? * * * Read this topic online here: [https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/quick-grid-question/5488/1](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/quick-grid-question/5488/1) ---
**Author:** ![ijthompson](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/ijthompson/32/128_2.png) [@ijthompson](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/ijthompson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/quick-grid-question/5488/3 "2012-12-09T17:31:49Z")
Bingo! Knew I had to be missing something simple. Thank you very much! 🙂