Owner's Manual

Navigation 165
Hiding and Displaying the Navigation Window
You can conceal the navigation window to increase the size of your work area. To hide the
navigation window click on small arrows on the bar between it and the work area. This is a toggle;
click those arrows again to redisplay the navigation window. Or, to resize it, drag the bar to a new
location.
NOTE:
By default, the navigation window collapses the tree it displays. You can click the nodes to un-collapse it.
Work Area
The work area displays the application’s managers, wizards, and editors. You can change the display
of the items in this area between an HTML browser view and an MDI (Multiple Document
Interface) view by selecting
View -> Launcher , then selecting the desired view.
Column Titles
You can edit the column titles that appear in editors. See the Inventory Config on page 174 for
instructions about how to modify these and other display characteristics.
Color Conventions
In some screens, blank fields have a blue background. These change to green when you change a
field’s contents, then click
Apply. The green backgrounds persist until you save them to the
database. If saving succeeds, background turns white, if it fails, then the green remains visible.
Mandatory fields have
bold italic labels. If you do not enter a mandatory field when you edit a
panel, a Validation error appears and the mandatory field label font turns red bold italic, and the
background remains green. Labels with a violet background, and bold dark blue text indicate a
warning is associated with the attribute value.
Detail Panels
When you select items at the top of a screen, frequently the details of those items appear in the
Detail Panels at the bottom of the screen (though these do not appear in all screens).