Working with views

In MainView Explorer and windows mode, data is displayed in views. You can refresh and lock views, filter views, and customize views. You can create customized views for your own screen data set, or for a site data set to be shared by everyone.

You can work with views in the following ways:

Refreshing and locking views

You can refresh the data in a view manually or automatically. Setting a view to automatically refresh itself is a convenient way to continually monitor information. Locking a view lets you study the data in the view at a particular point in time.

For more information, see Refreshing-view-data-in-MainView-Explorer, Locking-and-updating-data-in-views, and Refreshing-view-data-in-windows-mode.

Related topics

Overview-of-views-and-displays

Working-with-MainView-Explorer-views

Controlling-data-views-in-MainView-Explorer

Working-with-windows-mode-views

Controlling-data-views-in-windows-mode

Working-with-historical-data

Filtering views

Filtering a view lets you see only the data that you want to see. You can filter the view's query, the view's form, or both.

For more information, see Filtering-data-in-a-view-in-MainView-Explorer and Filtering-data-in-a-view-in-windows-mode.
Customizing views

You can reorder the columns in a view, add or delete columns, add hyperlinks, change headings, change colors, set thresholds, and so on. You can save customized views for future use.

For more information, see Customizing-data-display-in-MainView-Explorer and Customizing-data-display-in-windows-mode.

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