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Table of Contents
1 About views __________________________________________________________________________ 4
2 Editing a view _________________________________________________________________________ 6
3 Adding applications or portlets ____________________________________________________________ 7
4 Index ________________________________________________________________________________ 9

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The Views tab has a tree structure similar to the Workspace and the Administration tabs:
About views (see page 4)
Editing a view (see page 6)
Adding applications or portlets (see page 7)

Additional information
The general look of the View tab may vary depending on customization; however, the logical
components that it is composed of are the same.

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1 About views
The views that you have added are available through the various categories under the Views tab.
Views tab

The working area on the right lets you browse through various pages within a view. For example, in the following
figure, you see the various pages within the Hyper-V Virtual Farm view..

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Additional information
For a view, some pages might not be visible to all users depending on the access rights.

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2 Editing a view
Administration tab - Edit menu

Click

to edit the required view. It provides access to useful functions such as changing the name, description,

owner user, define access and edit modes, assign parent view groups, and access groups.

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3 Adding applications or portlets

Applications or portlets are the building blocks of a page. To add an application, navigate to a view in one of the
view groups available on the Views tab. Click

on the top right corner and then click Enable Edit Mode > Add

application to add applications. Using this menu you can also exit the edit mode, define layout templates, and
manage pages, depending on user rights.
Edit menu options

The application window allows you to search for the application you want to add. Click Add to add the
applications.
You can change the title of an application by clicking on the current title and typing a new name in the text area
(see figure below).
Changing the original name of a portlet

Portlets can be configured using seven different control icons; however, only the configurations can see all of
them. Icons that can only be seen by configurations are indicated with a
Icon

Command

Description

Refresh

Refresh the portlet

Look and Feel

Change the appearance of the portlet (style, border, background, etc.), including advanced CSS styling options.

Configuration

Set user permissions.

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Icon

Command

Description

Preferences

Set the attributes (preferences) of the portlet (for example, its title), and the read/write parameters that the portlet is sensitive
to; for further information, see Managing portlets.

Minimize

Hide the content of the portlet.

Maximize

Maximize the portlet to full page display.

Remove

Delete the portlet.

Tip
The BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization Console Views tab allows you to build views. Each view is
made up of a set of configurable and interactive pages.

For example, you can create a new view containing all the analyses and reports related to a specific business
service, or that are useful for Database Administrators.
A view has the characteristic of being visible to a specified set of users; a view can also extensively represent a set
of users with same access rights. A user can typically access a set of views.

Tip
A page is a container of interactive visual components, called portlets, that show analyses, models,
reports, or any other information.

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Index
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Views 3

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