You can change a pivot event to view related events that
are of interest.
About this task
Use a pivot event as a baseline to determine a sequence of events in the group. A pivot
event displays in the Related Event Details
portlet. Within the Related Event Details
portlet, a pivot event can be changed. Also, a pivot event history of the 20 most recent pivot
events is available for you to revisit. You can access the pivot event history by clicking the
Back and Forward buttons in the
Events toolbar.Note: The pivot event history is lost if you
close the Related Event Details
portlet.
- When you open the Related Event Details
portlet from an event in the View Related Events portlet, that event becomes the pivot event within the Related Event Details portlet.
- When you open the Related Event Details
portlet from a group in the View Related Events portlet, one of the events from that group becomes the pivot event within the Related Event Details portlet. The pivot event is not
always the parent event.
Complete the following steps to change the pivot event.
Procedure
- Within the View Related Events portlet,
right-click on an event or a group. A menu is displayed.
- From the menu, select Show Details.
The Related Event Details portlet
opens.
- Within the Related Event Details portlet,
information about the pivot event is displayed.
- In the Event Group Instance table, the Contains Pivot Event column
reports if a group instance has a pivot event, or not.
Note: If this event group is based on a
STRONG relationship profile, then event group instances will always contain all events, consequently
there will always be a pivot event in each group instance and therefore the Contains
Pivot Event column always contains the value Yes. However, if the
event group is based on a MEDIUM or WEAK relationship profile, then event group instances will not
always necessarily contain all events, and therefore there is a possibility that one or more of the
event group instances might not contain the pivot event. In this case, some of the cells in the
Contains Pivot Event column might contain the value
No.
- In the Events table, the pivot event is identifiable by a red
border.
- Next to the
Group Name entry, a Pivot
Event link displays. To see more details about the pivot
event, click the Pivot Event link and a More
Information widow opens displaying details about the pivot
event.
- In the Related Event Details portlet,
within the Events tab, in the Events table, right-click
on the event you want to identify as the pivot event. A menu is displayed.
- From the menu, select Set as Pivot Event.
Results
Your selected event becomes the pivot event with a red border.
Data updates in the timeline chart, in the Pivot Event link,
in the Event Group Instance table and in the Events table.
What to do next
Within the Related Event Details
portlet, you can reselect one of your 20 recent pivot events as your current pivot event. From the
Events tab toolbar, select either the forward arrow or back arrow to select
one of the 20 recent pivot events. Note: The pivot event history is lost if you
close the Related Event Details
portlet.