Using edit mode to change preferences in the Tile view

When the Tile view is in edit mode, you use the options in the Tile view Preferences dialog box to determine how you want the tiles to look, and to choose which metrics that you want to display in the individual tiles.

Before you begin

 In the navigation tree, select the folder that contains the object that you want to display in the Tile view and then click the Tile view button in the Operations Console toolbar.

To change tile attributes and preferences

1. If you are in view mode, click the Preferences button to change to edit mode.
2. In the Background pane in the Tile view Preferences dialog box, perform one or both of the following actions:
   • Select the Color option and then use the palette to select the color that you want to display.
   • Select the Image option and then use the list to select the background image that you want to display.
3. To change the tile metrics, click a tile, and then click Metric Selection in the Tile view Preferences dialog box.

4. In Metric Selection, click the attribute that you want to add and then drag and drop that attribute from the Tile view Preferences dialog box to the tile that you selected.

   • The attributes that you can select to display depend on the object type that is displayed in the tile. For example, devices have a broader list of attributes to select than services.
      If you select a KPI attribute, the Attribute Selection for Information Capsule dialog box is displayed. Perform the following additional steps:

   1. Click the item at the end of the row until a list of attributes is displayed.
   2. Select the attribute that you want to display in the tile, and click Apply Selection.
      If you select the <custom text> attribute, the Custom Text Value dialog box is displayed. Perform the following additional steps:
      1. Enter the custom text that you want to display in the tile. For more information about the Custom Text attribute, see Tile-attributes.
      2. Click OK.
5. Close the Preferences dialog box to save your changes.
   • The Tile view is returned to view mode.
6. Click Refresh  to display data for the new attributes.

Where to go from here

You can save the changes that you make to the tile preferences as defaults. For information, see Saving-tile-preferences-as-defaults.