5.2

Tips for Using the View Administrator Interface
You can use View Administrator user-interface features to navigate View Pages and to find, filter, and sort
View objects.
View
Administrator includes many common user interface features. For example, the navigation pane on the
left side of each page directs you to other View Administrator pages. The search filters let you select filtering
criteria that are related to the objects you are searching for.
Table 1-1 describes a few additional features that can help you to use View Administrator.
Table 1-1. View Administrator Navigation and Display Features
View Administrator Feature Description
Navigating backward and forward in
View Administrator pages
Click your browser's Back button to go to the previously displayed View
Administrator page. Click the Forward button to return to the current page.
If
you click the browser's Back button while you are using a View Administrator
wizard or dialog box, you return to the main View Administrator page. The
information you entered in the wizard or dialog is lost.
In View versions that preceded the View 5.1 release, you could not use your
browser's Back and Forward buttons to navigate within View Administrator.
Separate Back and Forward buttons in the View Administrator window were
provided for navigation. These buttons are removed in the View 5.1 release.
Bookmarking View Administrator pages You can bookmark View Administrator pages in your browser.
Multicolumn sorting You can sort View objects in a variety of ways by using multicolumn sorting.
Click a heading in the top row of a View Administrator table to sort the View
objects in alphabetical order based on that heading.
For example, in the Inventory > Desktops page, you can click 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 View objects by a secondary item, Ctrl+click another heading.
For
example, in the Desktops 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 click
Inventory > Pools, double-click the pool ID, click the Inventory tab, click the
Datastore heading, and Ctrl+click the Status heading.
Customizing table columns You can customize the display of View Administrator table columns by hiding
selected columns and locking the first column. This feature lets you control the
display of large tables such as Inventory > Desktops 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 first 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 Inventory > Desktops page, the desktop ID remains
displayed as you scroll horizontally to see other desktop characteristics.
Your customized settings persist while you remain on the current View
Administrator page. The settings do not persist if you navigate to another page.
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