Managing styles

After you complete creating a style or overwriting an existing style, you can use them across different views. IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights (ENI) provides Import styles and Export styles options to use the styles across the views. You can also refresh a style or list of styles by using the Refresh styles option.

About this task

When you are managing the styles, you can accomplish the following tasks:

1. Refresh the list of styles.
2. Import a style.
3. Export a style.
4. Move or Copy a style.
5. Delete a style.

These options are available in My styles and Shared styles pages.

Note: The Move or Copy selected style and Export styles options are enabled only after you select any of the styles.

1. In the Welcome to Views page, click Browse styles.
   • Private styles are in Browse styles > My styles.
   • Shared styles are in Browse styles > Shared styles.

   Note: The Select all styles option is added for the list of styles on the My styles and Shared styles pages. You can use the Select all styles option to perform required action for all the styles at a time.
2. In the My styles or Shared styles page, select the required style, and then complete the required task.
   • Click the Refresh styles icon to refresh the list of styles in the page.
     
   • Click the Import styles icon to import a style.
     
     • In the Import File window, click Choose file to import the style.
     • Select the style (compressed file) that you want to import, and then click Import.
       
   • Click the Export styles icon to export a style.
     

     When you click Export styles icon, the selected style is downloaded to your system.

     Note: The import option uploads and the export option download the style as a compressed file and stores the style content in an XML format.
     Remember: When you import or export a style that contains Actions defined in a view, the formatting gets exported but the Actions cannot be exported as part of style.

     Example: You exported a style that is defined for the view that is created in ENI version 7.0.2. If you use the same style in a view that is created in ENI version 7.0.3, you can see the defined formatting in the view but with no Actions defined.

   • Click the Move or Copy selected style icon to move or copy the selected styles to My styles or Shared styles.

     Complete the following steps to move or copy a private or shared style:

     • Click the Move or Copy selected style icon that is available next to the selected style name.
       
     • In the Move or copy selected style window, select the Move or Copy option.
     • Select the destination folder either My styles or Shared styles, and then click Ok.

     You can also move or copy multiple styles at a time by using the Move or Copy selected style icon from the toolbar options.

     Complete the following steps to move or copy multiple styles at a time:

     • Select the required styles that you want to move or copy.
     • Click the Move or Copy selected style icon that is available in the toolbar options.
       
     • In the Move or copy selected style window, select the Move or Copy option.
     • Select My styles or Shared styles as a destination folder, and then click Ok.
   • Click the Delete style icon that is available next to the selected style.
     
     You can also delete the selected style or multiple styles by using the Delete styles icon from the toolbar options.

     

     When you click Delete style or Delete styles icon to delete any of the styles (either single or multiple), warning messages are shown.

     For single selected style, the following message is shown:

     Do you want to delete the {style name} style?
     If {style name} style is used in one or more views, the views are loaded with existing view formatting and Style name is set to No style.

     For multiple selected styles, the following message is shown:

     Do you want to delete the {style count} selected style(s)?
     If these styles are used in one or more views, the views are loaded with existing view formatting and Style name is set to No style.

     These messages might help you to retain defined style or view formatting by saving or exporting the style or view before you delete the styles.