Panel manipulation

Many of the tools provided in the IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities environment have a user interface that is organized into panels.

The following figure shows an example of an interface that is organized into panels. The panels display different kinds of information.

Figure 1. User interface organized into panels
The image is explained in the text.

There are five things that you are generally able to do with a tool's panels:

  • Hide a panel so that it is not visible in the user interface.
  • Force a hidden panel to be visible in the user interface.
  • Move panels around in the user interface.
  • Change the size of a panel.
  • Restore the panels in a tool's user interface to their default configuration.

To hide a panel, click X. The panel is no longer visible in the user interface.

To force a hidden panel to be visible again, use the View menu. Tools that have a panel-based user interface have a View menu that looks similar to a custom menu. Clicking a View menu item forces the panel with the same name as the item to become visible if hidden.

To move a panel, drag it by the header, the rectangle that contains the panel name and the X. Click and hold the header, then move the panel to your preferred location.

To restore the panels to their default configuration, click Reset in the menu.