The objects in a view

You will find views whenever you start the application and open a (non-empty) perspective. You can open more views by selecting Views from the main menu, or by using context-menus or dropdown menus within the views that are already open.

The objects in a view

This is a typical snapshot of a view in this case the Geographical Map view:

Some of the objects in this view are found in (almost) all views. Take a closer look at this example:

The Data area

In the background of the above example, you can see a map of Europe with several alarm indicators. This area contains the main functionality of the view - where the data is presented and/or utilized. Every view will contain one or more areas like this. The data area can contain a graphical map, a table, a graph or a set of

controllers. Each view and its different data areas and controllers are described in the GUI overview section of this manual.

The View tab

View tab is found on the upper left edge of any view (marked with yellow in the

above example).

The tab consists of the following objects:

 A View icon, which is located on the left of the View tab.(marked with bright green in the above example). This icon helps you uniquely identify each view by view type, and the same icon can be found in all menus where you can open this view.

 A Dirty flag, which appears only when there is unsaved data in the view (marked with orange in the above example). This little asterisk to the left of the view name indicates that your changes to the view have not yet been applied, and that the Save icon on the View toolbar can be used. If you try to close a view with dirty flag without saving data, the Save Changes dialog will be opened. You will only find a Dirty flag in views where data is modified in a

Data area on the client, and is saved to the server in a separate operation.

 A View name (marked with blue in the above example). As with

the View icon, it uniquely identifies each view by view type. The same name is used in all menus where this view can be opened.

 A Scope, which can be found only when the view is opened

with a particular selection of data (the scope Geographic\Europe is marked with red in the above example). The Scope is text that follows the View name and describes the data selected in the Data area. If the Scope is changed while a view is open, this text will be updated dynamically.

 A Close View icon (marked with dark green in the above example). If the view contains any unsaved data (indicated by the Dirty flag), the Save Changes dialog will let you decide whether to save changes or not.

Available operations on the View tab

 Click the tab and drag the view to reposition it. This can be done several ways, read how to reposition views to find out more about repositioning views.

 Use the Viewtab's own context menu. This menu contains shortcuts for Close,

Maximize/Minimize/Restore, and several variants of Resize and Move a view.

edge of a view

The edge indicates where a view ends and another starts (marked with a black arrow in the above example).

 Drag the View edge to resize the view. When you move the cursor over this edge, it will change shape to a "double arrow", indicating that resizing is possible.

The Scrollbar

A scrollbar will appear whenever a view has more data than there is space for within the size of a view (marked with brown in the above example)

 Click the arrows to scroll the view in the desired direction

 Click outside the scrollbar to scroll one page

 Drag the scrollbar to quickly scroll the view in either direction

The View toolbar

The View toolbar is a list of icons found in the upper right corner of all views (marked with bright blue in the above example).

This toolbar will look different for each view. Below is another example of the

View toolbar for the Group Administration view:

Each icon on the toolbar represent an operation on the data in the view, which can be activated by clicking the icon. Only the most common operations for the view, and operations on the view's main data, are normally found on the View toolbar. Other operations for the view can be found in a view dropdown, in a context menu or as controllers in the view's Data area.

Some operations are used in several views (e.g. Refresh and Save), while others are not. For more details about operations available from the View toolbar, see the section on that view in the user manual.

The View dropdown

Every view has its own dropdown menu to the right of the toolbar (marked with purple in the above example). All operations available for that views' main data can be found here. Please note that some views have several levels of datasets and several sets of controllers (e.g. Alarm Templates view). Only operations on the views' main data are normally found on the View dropdown.

 Click the View Dropdown icon to open a dropdown menu for a view

The View dropdown menu will look different for each view. This is an example for the Geographical Tree view:

Selecting an item on the menu will in some cases apply changes to the (selected) data in the view, and in other cases open a view or a dialog. Depending on the state of the currently selected data, some menu options will become

disabled/enabled (e.g. you cannot block a user who has already been blocked) Some menu items are common for several views:

 Select a menu with a More Submenus menu indicator to see more submenu items within this category. A menu item containing this icon does not activate an operation, but can be considered as a header for a new sub- menu.

For more details about operations available from the View dropdown, see the section on that view in the user manual.

Maximize/Minimize/Restore icons

All views can have three different states, all of which can be enabled using the following icons (marked with grey in the above example) to the right of the View toolbar:

 Maximize the view - the view is placed on top of all the other views. This is useful when you want to study a large amount of data in the view.

 Minimize the view - the view becomes hidden at the bottom/top of the perspective. This is useful when you have a lot of views open.

 Restore the view - the view returns to its previous state. This is the normal placement during surveillance.

Another way to restore a minimized view, is to click its view tab.

Please note that when several views are stacked, minimizing one view will also minimize the other views in this stack.

The Context menu

In most places in the application, it is possible to right-click (or left-click, if you are using a left-handed mouse) and open a special menu. This menu is called a context

menu, and is required in order to access a lot of functionality provided in the

application.

The context menu will look different for each view. Below is an example from the Logical Map view:

The context menu and its available menu options will vary for each view, each area within a view, and each object in a area. Selecting a menu item will in some cases open a view or a dialog, in other cases apply changes to the selected data in the view. Some menu options will be disabled/enabled depending of the currently selected data in the view.

 Select a menu with a More Sub-menus menu indicator to see more submenu items within this category. A menu item containing this icon does not activate an operation, but can be considered as a header for a new sub- menu.

For more details about operations available from the Context menu, see the section of the user manual describing all objects in each view.