Design data views

MainView empowers you to build your own view of data: a perspective that you construct for the exact viewpoint you need to monitor, manage, and execute your jobs. Understanding how to build these views helps you achieve the goal of complete control over your data and over systems management.

You work with two methods of control when building your view: query and form. Query controls which data MainView gathers, and form controls the data's display (through view customization and modification).

MainView customization options let you arrange data elements into useful configurations that determine how the data will be displayed. You can build the exact perspective you need at the precise time that you need it. The customization settings are quick and versatile; you can change the view whenever you like and respond to the shifting changes of your system instantaneously. By designing your own view, you take control of your data and bring it into the best form for managing, analyzing, problem solving, and responding to diverse situations.

MainView offers the following ways to modify and customize your data views:

• Control the display of fields, including their format and position
• Create or change graphs of view data
• Create, change, or delete hyperlinks between views and other products
• Set keyword and positional parameters for a view, which can be used in filtering
• Set or remove data threshold conditions for a field
• Change the color in which data appears when it meets a specific condition, or substitute text for data that meets a specific condition
• Create a summary view, change which fields are summarized, or change how fields are summarized
• Create view containers to display multiple views and charts in a configuration