Owner's Manual
154 Navigation
Toolbar
The toolbar at the top of the initial screen is always visible.
Figure 10-2. Toolbar (two pieces of the same bar)
Hover the cursor over an icon for a text description. The following are in order, left-to-right. These
icons are active (not grayed out) only when relevant:
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Home
—The initial home page for the admin user is a screen that prompts that user to discover
devices on the network. Otherwise, it opens the screen you have specified as your home page.
See Settings -> Options on page 164 for how to set a home page. By default, after you finish
initial discovery this is the QuickView that includes a count and list of alarms, and the panels
visible in the manager described in Chapter 13, Resources.
Figure 10-3.
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Discovery Wizard
—Opens the discovery wizard.
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Show / Hide Navigation Window
—This toggles the appearance / disappearance of the left panel
of the screen. This has a tree of icons you can click to activate each of the application’s
features.
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Help
—Opens the Online Help. (See How to Get Help on page 184).
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Set Home Page / Favorites
—Opens a screen described in Settings -> Options on page 164 that
lets you select the home page and favorites in the work area.
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Resources
—Opens Resources manager. (See Chapter 13, Resources)
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Topology
—Opens a topology view displaying all devices. (See Chapter 21, Topology Views).
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Monitoring View
—Opens an Quickview layout (See above).
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Prev/Next
—These cycle back and forth through the open screens (listed in the
Windows
menu).
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Save
—Write the results of your changes in the screen open in the work area to the database.
Ctrl+S is the keyboard shortcut.
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Close
—Closes the active, selected layout in the work area. Ctrl+F4 is the equivalent keyboard
shortcut.
NOTE:
If you close individual sub-screens, in effect you are editing the layout (you can even close all content in
a layout). The next time you open that layout, the deleted screens do not appear. If you want close the
entire layout without editing it, use the close button on the toolbar.