Using Views

Views can vary in scope and scale, from broad to narrow, and from graphic to detailed, depending on how your enterprise is organized and monitored.

To select a view:

In the Viewer panel, click a tab at the top to choose an active channel by name. On a channel, you can select various instances of that channel (such as a grid view and bar chart of the same data) by clicking its tile or its tab at the bottom of the panel.

Alternately, to advance quickly through each of the tabs in the Viewer panel, press Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+Shift+A to jump forward or backward, respectively. These keystrokes apply to any type of view in the Viewer panel.

To change view layouts:

You change individual view layouts with the Layout Selector menu available from the blue icon at the lower-right corner of the Viewer panel. Click this icon to choose:

Layout Option

Result

Tab

Fill the active channel display with the current view and make other open views selectable by tabs at the lower border.

Tile Best Fit

Display all views in the active channel as variously shaped tiles, giving each a proportional amount of space.

Tile Horizontally

Display all views in the active channel horizontally, giving each a proportional amount of space.

Tile Vertically

Display all views in the active channel vertically, giving each a proportional amount of space.

To float a view:

In the active channel's name tab, right-click and choose Float.

To close one or all views:

In the active channel's name tab, right-click and choose Close or Close All.

To close an individual view Shift+click its name tab. You can also right-click a view name tab and choose Close from the popup menu.

To close all views except the current one:

In the active channel's name tab, right-click and choose Close All But Current.

To add another type of presentation (view) for the data in an active channel:

  1. Click the View Type icon in the lower-right corner of the Viewer panel.

  2. Select from among the grids and the various types of chart or graphic views.

To change view layouts of channels within a container:

This technique applies to individual channels within a view container, such as data monitors within a dashboard.

  1. Click the Layout icon

  2. Select to show or arrange the views by Tab, or Tile Best Fit, Tile Horizontally, or Tile Vertically.