Creating a new view

Create a new view to customize a workspace to show the reports and other information that give you a comprehensive view of your environment or particular aspects of it. You can add as many views to a workspace as you can easily see within the confines of the window. Creating a new view is a matter of dividing one view into two and editing one of them.

Before you begin

Your user ID must have Workspace Author Mode permission to use this function.

Procedure

  1. Open the workspace where you want the view.
  2. If you want the view to occupy a new space, click split vertically Split Vertically or split horizontally Split Horizontally in an existing view.
    The pane divides and a duplicate is created. If you split the Navigator, the new view is empty.

    If you want to replace a view with a different type of view, skip this step.

  3. Click the tool for the type of view you want: Table view Pie chart view Bar chart view Plot chart view Area chart Circular gauge chart viewLinear gauge chart view Notepad view Message log view Universal message console view Graphic view Terminal view Browser view Topology view Situation event console view Common event console view Tivoli Enterprise Console event viewer.
    The mouse pointer changes to the view icon (hand icon on Linux). If you get the wrong icon or decide not to add the view, press Escape or click somewhere in the toolbar.
  4. Click inside the space to adopt the new view.
    If this is a table or chart view and no query has been chosen, or the query is inappropriate for the type of chart, no data is displayed. You might be prompted to assign a query.
  5. Some views require more information:
    • If the Select Attribute window opens, you replaced a table view with a chart view, which can show only numeric attributes. Select an attribute (use Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click to select more), then click OK.
    • If you are adding a terminal view, enter the host name and port number in the Terminal Emulator Configuration window.
  6. Select Properties editor - viewEdit properties to open the Properties editor to change the content or format.
    The tabs displayed depend on the type of view. The Tivoli Enterprise Console® event viewer and the take action view have no associated properties.
  7. As you edit the properties, click Test to see your changes in the Preview area at the top of the window, Apply to save your changes and keep the window open for selecting another view to edit, or OK to save your changes and close the window.
  8. If you want to keep the view in this workspace for future work sessions, do one of the following actions:
    • Click saveSave to update the workspace properties with the new view.
    • Select Save Workspace As from the File menu to save this as a new workspace and leave the original workspace as it was.
    Note: If no information appears in a table or chart, it might be because no data samplings meet the query or filter criteria. Regardless of the managed systems assigned to a query, a gauge chart (circular or linear) can show data from only one managed system. If you are using the query in a workspace where multiple systems are applicable (at the platform level of the Navigator physical view), the data shown will be from the first managed system in the Assigned list of the Query Results Source tab.