Application and department hierarchies

The interactive breadcrumb on the Overview page provides a visual representation of the hierarchical relationships for applications and departments and enables you to navigate quickly between the elements in the hierarchy.

The breadcrumb uses default or customized icons to represent the related applications and departments. The greater-than sign (>) serves as the hierarchy separator and ends with the name of the selected application or department. Only the ancestor names of the selected application are shown.

When you move your mouse pointer over an icon in the breadcrumb, you see the siblings for that application or department. If you move your mouse pointer, for example, over the Data subcomponent, the related application and department elements are shown.

The visual representation of the hierarchy stops when either there are no additional parents or multiple parents are encountered from the selected application or department. When multiple parents are encountered, the number of parents are shown in parenthesis. For example, Multiple (2). Moving the mouse pointer over Multiple shows a list of the parents. The siblings of multiple parents are not shown.

Move your mouse pointer over a sibling in the breadcrumb and it becomes a name link. Click the application or department name link to navigate to the details for that application or department and view the breadcrumb if it exists.

You can add resources directly on the Overview page for applications from the breadcrumb. For example, in this case, you create an application named Db2® and create two subcomponents, Logs and Data. On the Overview page for the Logs subcomponent, click the Logs subcomponent name link in the breadcrumb and click Filters to create a resource filter for that subcomponent. Then, click the Data subcomponent name link and create a resource filter for that application subcomponent. To see a visual representation of the hierarchy for applications, subcomponents, departments, and subdepartments click View Details.