User's Manual

Active System Manager User Interface Elements
Active System Manager Overview 1-29
General • Single click (open when using arrow keys)—Selecting a resource with the
arrow keys opens it in an editor.
Note: Depending on which view has focus, selecting and opening a resource may
have different behavior. This preference may not take affect on all views.
N/A
General >
Appearance
• Lists the available, current presentation styles (look and feel):
• Classic Presentation
• Default
• UI Presentation (current)
• Override presentation settings—Overrides the presentation settings previously
set by choosing a different presentation style.
• Editor tab positions—Specifies either top or bottom to indicate where you want
tabs for stacked editors to appear.
• View tab positions—Specifies either top or bottom to indicate where you want
tabs for stacked views to appear.
• Perspective switcher positions—Specifies the location of the perspective
switcher bar.
• Current theme—Specifies the currently active theme (color and font set):
• Default (current)
• Reduced Palette
• Classic Theme
• Description—Allows you to provide a description for the settings you configure.
• Show traditional style tabs—Specifies whether traditional square tabs should be
used in place of the curved tabs.
• Enable animations—Enables or disables the feature where views animate to their
location when closed or opened.
• Use mixed fonts and colors for labels
• Show heap status
See the “Changing the
Tab Placement for Editors”
section on page 1-20 and
Figure 1-6 on page 1-20
General > Display
Options
Inventory
• Resource Types—Displays resource types by Name or Manufacturer & Model
(default).
• Resource Instances—Displays resource instances by Name or Asset Tag
(default).
• Resource Interfaces—Displays resource interface by Name or Location (default).
Session Calendar
• Display Session Label—Displays the session label by Session Name (default) or
by Session Owner.
• Calendar Format—Displays a calendar format by Day (default), Week, Month,
Quarter, or Year.
• Lock Horizontal Scrollbar—Allows you to lock the horizontal scrollbar.
Resource Allocation Calendar
Enables the Show Past Sessions feature to display past sessions. If you click this
check box, you can also click to select the Show Archive Bin Sessions check box.
Note: If you click these check boxes, it might impact application performance.
• Calendar Colors—The system administrator can disable this option by the system
administrator by modifying the Active System Manager server configuration
properties. If so, a message at the bottom of the screen will be available.
Note: For more information about setting colors in hexadecimal values (regarding
the color configuration properties), refer to the following URLs:
• http://www.w3schools.com/Html/html_colors.asp
• http://www.w3schools.com/Html/html_colornames.asp
Chapter 8, “Using
Inventory” and
Chapter 10, “Network
Management”
Table 1-8 Preference Types—Configurable Parameters (continued)
Preference Type Configurable Parameters and Description Reference