Overview of the MVE Viewer

• A stand-alone package, located on your desktop or on a shared network drive
• A Java application run outside your browser, launched each time by Java Web Start 

With MainView Explorer Viewer, you can import any data file from a local or network drive to which you have access. As the figure below shows, the imported data occupies a separate pane, which you can detach and manipulate. The following actions are available with the MainView Explorer Viewer:

• Changing threshold colors
• Formatting headers and data
• Using all charting functions, including the selection of chart styles and items for charting

Hyperlinks (but not actions) are also available. When a hyperlink is sent to the MainView Explorer host server, the host server looks for an active MainView Explorer session on your desktop. If a session is active, the host server sends the link to it, opening a pane with the view in your active MainView Explorer session. If no active session is found, an MainView Explorer session is launched (which requires your logon), and the link is sent to that session.

If you have access to a network drive to which an active MainView Explorer session is exporting view data, you can view that data without logging onto the host. In this manner, you can use MainView Explorer as a data server.