Administration

Table 1-1 describes a few additional features that can help you to use Horizon Administrator.
Table 1‑1. Horizon Administrator Navigation and Display Features
Horizon Administrator Feature Description
Navigating backward and forward in
Horizon Administrator pages
Click your browser's Back buon to go to the previously displayed Horizon
Administrator page. Click the Forward buon to return to the current page.
If you click the browser's Back buon while you are using a Horizon
Administrator wizard or dialog box, you return to the main Horizon
Administrator page. The information you entered in the wizard or dialog is
lost.
In versions earlier than View 5.1, you cannot use your browser's Back and
Forward buons to navigate within Horizon Administrator. Separate Back
and Forward buons in the Horizon Administrator window were provided
for navigation. These buons are removed in the View 5.1 release.
Bookmarking Horizon Administrator
pages
You can bookmark Horizon Administrator pages in your browser.
Multicolumn sorting You can sort Horizon objects in a variety of ways by using multicolumn
sorting.
Click a heading in the top row of a Horizon Administrator table to sort the
Horizon objects in alphabetical order based on that heading.
For example, in the Resources > Machines page, you can click Desktop Pool
to sort desktops by the pools that contain them.
The number 1 appears next to the heading to indicate that it is the primary
sorting column. You can click the heading again to reverse the sorting order,
indicated by an up or down arrow.
To sort the Horizon objects by a secondary item, Ctrl+click another heading.
For example, in the Machines table, you can click Users to perform a
secondary sort by users to whom the desktops are dedicated. A number 2
appears next to the secondary heading. In this example, desktops are sorted
by pool and by users within each pool.
You can continue to Ctrl+click to sort all the columns in a table in descending
order of importance.
Press Ctrl+Shift and click to deselect a sort item.
For example, you might want to display the desktops in a pool that are in a
particular state and are stored on a particular datastore. You can select
Resources > Machines, click the Datastore heading, and Ctrl+click the Status
heading.
Customizing table columns You can customize the display of Horizon Administrator table columns by
hiding selected columns and locking the rst column. This feature lets you
control the display of large tables such as Catalog > Desktop Pools that
contain many columns.
Right-click any column header to display a context menu that lets you take the
following actions:
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Hide the selected column.
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Customize columns. A dialog displays all columns in the table. You can
select the columns to display or hide.
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Lock the rst column. This option forces the left-hand column to remain
displayed as you scroll horizontally across a table with many columns.
For example, on the Catalog > Desktop Pools page, the desktop ID
remains displayed as you scroll horizontally to see other desktop
characteristics.
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