User's Manual

Active System Manager User Interface Elements
Active System Manager Overview 1-7
The following topics describe the functions available for perspectives:
• Modifying Perspective Preferences
• Opening Perspectives
• Navigating Perspectives
• Customizing Perspectives
• Saving Your Perspective As
• Resetting Perspectives
• Closing One or All Perspectives
• Deleting Perspectives
Modifying Perspective Preferences
Perspective preferences are set by default; however, you can modify them at any time by performing the
following steps:
1. On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Preferences > General > Perspectives to
display the Preferences—Perspectives dialog box.
2. Modify the preference settings, as appropriate; see Table 1-11 on page 1-36.
3. Click Apply > OK to accept the settings.
Opening Perspectives
To open a perspective, perform the following steps:
1. Open the Open Perspective dialog box by one of the following methods:
• On the Active System Manager toolbar, click the Open Perspective icon and select a visible
perspective or click Other.
• On the Active System Manager toolbar, click the icon that represents the perspective you select to
open.
• On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Open Perspective and select a visible
perspective or click Other.
2. Select the perspective to open and click OK to display the perspective within the application
environment.
Test Controls the layout of the user interface the
Active System Manager software uses to display
information for your test cases, including which
views are displayed and their positions within the
Active System Manager software.
Chapter 11, “Working with Test and Script
Execution”
Table 1-4 Tasks for Each Perspective (continued)
Perspective Preferred Task Chapter Reference