Save View and Search Expressions
The icons presented below, found for instance in the bottom right corner in the "Tasks" and "Vehicles"-tabs, can be used to save and load panel views and search expressions. A view is in this sense defined as the set of visible panel columns and a search expression is the values entered into the columns fields.
Functionality of these icons from left is as follows:
- Adjust column width to fit inside the window.
- The binoculars is used to load a saved view. Right click to load a default view.
- The binoculars with an add sign is used to save the current view. Right click for create a default view (requires administrator access rights)
- The magnifying glass is used to load a saved search expression
- The magnifying glass with and add sign is used to save the currently entered search expression
- The sweep icon is used to clear the current search expression
Save View
Views are useful for saving the layout for later. A view containing the order, which to hide and show, and the width of the columns. There are 2 sets of views:
- User specific: Views for each user that only that person can manage and see.
- Default views: Views that are common for all users. This can be applied for everyone but only admins can manage them.
Save View, User Specific:
- Make sure you have manage the layout the way you want it to be saved:
- Hide and show: Right click on one of the column headers, then select column.
- Change order: Drag each column to the desired location.
- Width: Drag on the column right edge to the desired width.
- Click on the binoculars-icon with an add sign. Icon number 3 from the left.
- A new window will open above the icon:
- Settings available in this window:
- New view (name): Enter the name you want to call the view. If you want to override an existing view you can tab on the existing view and this window will be filled with the same name. If you are about to override there will be a confirmation window to prevent mistakes.
- Fit to window: Setting can be managed for the new view and already saved view. To change this on an already saved view you click on the icon with horizontal arrows. For the new view use the checkbox.
- Checked: The view will automatically change the width of the columns to fit inside the window and will only remember the ratio. This works best if you often change window size and resolution on screen.
- Unchecked: The view remembers the width of each column and will apply the same regardless of window size.
- Mark as default: To mark a view as default, click on the pin icon. This setting can only be applied to already saved views. You can only mark one view as default and will automatically be removed from the view that was default.
- Remove a view: Click on the red icon to the right for removing an existing view. This action can not be undone!
- After all settings are set, click on the "Save view" button to save the view.
To save a view first selected the desired set of visible columns for the panel at hand and change to the desired width of columns (width will only be saved for vehicles, user and task panel). Thereafter save the view by clicking the binoculars with and add sign and enter a view name of choice as presented in Figure "Save View". Mark "Fit to window" if the columns width should be adjust to fit inside the window. This can also change for already saved views by clicking on the width icon in the list. If it is highlighted the view will adjust to window.
Save View
Load View
Mark View as Default
To load a saved view click the binoculars-icon, select the wanted view in the list and press "Apply view". This window is presented in Figure "Load View". A view can also be deleted using the corresponding remove-icon for the view item. The columns included in the saved view is listed upon record hover. If a view is applied which do not include a column for which a search expression is currently entered, this column is viewed anyway. To mark a view as default click the icon hovered in Figure "Mark View as Default". There can only be one default view per panel and this view is automatically loaded upon log in.
Save view for new user
To save views that will be created for new user you do as above in "Save View" but enter that menu by right clicking on the binoculars-icon. This requires administrator access rights. You can create several views and mark one as default and if the column width should fit inside the window. These views will be copy as standard views when creating new users.
By right clicking "Save View", there is as a short-cut for saving the current view as default for new user, "Save current view for new user". It creates a view with name "default" and mark it as default.
The views for new users can be accessed by right clicking on the binoculars icon for "Load view". This is available for all users, even those without administrator access rights.
Save Search Expression
Start with adding one or more search expressions in the search fields using the magnifying glass icon with an add sign. To save an expression, use the button to right marked in red and a new window will popup as you can see in Figure "Save Search Expression". Type a name for the expression, e.g. "My first expression" and press "Save search".
Save Search Expression
Load Search Expression
Pair Search and View - Icon
To apply a saved expression, click the magnifying glass icon and select it in the list, see Figure "Load Search Expression". When "Apply search" is pressed the expression is entered into the visible columns. If the expression entail a term where the corresponding column is not currently visible, this column is shown. In this view it is also possible to delete saved expressions by simply clicking the delete icon right to the save title. It is also possible to preview the expression by hovering the tile.
It is also possible to pair a view to the saved search expression. This can be achieved in two ways, one of which is to clicking the pin icon hovered in Figure "Pair Search and View - Icon" for the search expression in question, thus resulting in the additional window with radio button selection presented in Figure "Pair Search and View - Window". The other is to press the button "Select Search Views" and to use the pop up dialog visible in Figure "Pair Search and View - Dialog" where the view is selected from the drop down menu.
Pair Search and View - Window
Pair Search and View - Dialog
The main difference between the two ways is that in the dialog it is possible to administer the view connections for several search expressions simultaneously. It is possible to select from all the currently saved view and the "NONE"-option. The latter meaning that the view will be unchanged when the search expression is applied, except for the case when the expression entails a column which is not currently visible. If the search expression is paired with a view that does not include all columns found in the expression this column is shown anyway.