My go to is to crop the profile section into a new page and it will show up as the next page and you can scale that one separately.

Is there a special login we need to have for the test server?

I've ran into the same issue with this type of scale bar. I find these typically on subdivision plans.

I tried that and it becomes like a static object. When I click an item on screen the properties pane will highlight what I selected. But when it's undocked and by itself, it doesn't highlight or ...