Customizing the View Bar Layout

You can adjust the number of rows or columns of view buttons displayed on the View Bar of the main NetView® management console window. The minimum size of the view buttons can also be adjusted. Table 1 shows the attributes used to adjust these settings. These attributes are set in the defaultscheme.properties file.
Note: Either the number of rows or the number of columns can be customized, but not both. The value for one of these settings must remain 0. The 0 value indicates that no maximum value exists for the attribute.
Table 1. Changing View Bar Attributes and Values in the defaultscheme.properties File
Attribute Description Default Value Minimum Value Maximum Value
viewbar_max_rows = <int> Maximum number of rows in the view bar grid. New columns are added to display additional views. 0   None
viewbar_ max_columns = <int> Maximum number of columns in the view bar grid. New rows are added to display additional views. 0   None
viewbar_min_view_size = <int> Minimum size to make a view when sizing the views to fit on the view bar. 100 100  
To change the view buttons on the View Bar, update the NetView management console operational scheme from the console or server workstation, depending on the mode in which you are running. See Table 2 to determine if the updates need to be performed from the server or console workstation. To customize the view bar layout, perform the following steps:
  1. Make a backup copy of the default NetView management console operational scheme.
  2. Open the defaultscheme.properties file in a text editor.
  3. Search for the string viewbar and locate the attribute to be changed.
  4. Change the value of the attribute.
  5. Save the changes.
The example in Table 2 shows the changes made to the maximum number of rows in the View Bar grid from 0 to 5.
Table 2. Changing the Number of Rows in a View Bar in the defaultscheme.properties File
Before After

viewbar_max_rows = 0

viewbar_max_rows = 5
For more information about the NetView management console operational scheme, see Table 1.