User's Manual

Active System Manager User Interface Elements
1-8 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.0
Navigating Perspectives
You can use the standard procedure to open a perspective, but if you are in a working state and want to work
with an existing perspective, you can navigate to a previous or next perspective. To do so, perform one of
the following tasks:
• On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Navigation > Next Perspective.
• On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Navigation > Previous Perspective.
By default, the Session perspective displays on the perspective toolbar. To view additional default
perspectives (Test, Template, Provisioning, and Inventory), with your mouse, grab the perspective toolbar
tab and slide it to the left.
Customizing Perspectives
You can customize perspectives based on your workflow. By default, when you launch the Active System
Manager software, the last perspective you worked with opens.
To customize a perspective, perform the following steps:
1. Open or switch to the perspective you want to customize; see the “Opening Perspectives” section on
page 1-7.
2. Optional. Lock the perspective toolbar by right-clicking the Active System Manager toolbar and
selecting Lock the Toolbars.
The Active System Manager software locks the toolbars until you unlock them by repeating this
process.
3. Select a method to open the Customize Perspective dialog box:
• On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Customize Perspective
• Right-click the Active System Manager toolbar and select Customize Perspective.
• On the Active System Manager toolbar, select a perspective, right-click and select Customize.
The Customize Perspective dialog box displays with the Shortcuts tab open by default. However, the
Tool Bar Visibility, Menu Visibility, Command Groups Availability tabs are all functional in
customizing a perspective.
• The Tool Bar Visibility tab allows you to select (and organize) which toolbar menu options to
display on the Active System Manager toolbar for the specified perspective.
• The Menu Visibility tab allows you to select (and organize) which menu options to display for the
specified perspective.
• The Command Groups Availability tab allows you to select (and organize) the command groups
to display with the specified perspective. When you select a command group, the menu bar toolbar
details display, respective to the selected command group.
The Shortcuts options control the items that are available on the File > New > Window > Open
Perspective and Window > Show View menus.
4. Select the shortcuts to add as cascade items to the submenus displayed in the Customize Perspective
dialog box.
Your selections only affect the current perspective.