Managing navigation trees

Creating and populating a navigation tree

You can create and edit your own navigation trees. With the appropriate permissions, you can modify navigation trees created by other users.

1. Enter edit mode in the Operations tab.
2. Right-click a tab at the bottom of the explorer and select Edit Navigation Tabs > Edit Tabs to open the Edit Navigation Tabs dialog box.
3. Right-click in the Target Trees pane and select Tree > Create Navigation Tree.
4. Name the navigation tree root.
5. Right-click the new node and select as appropriate. The context menu options are self-explanatory and are listed for reference in Navigation tree context menu.
6. Make new blank folders to create the required target tree organization. This can be done now and/or later. Name the new folders with names that reflect the contents of the folders.
7. Drag physical and logical nodes and trees from the Source Trees pane to the Target Trees pane and drop as required. Note the following:
   • When searching for a drop location, hover over any expandable node to expand it.
   • Drag and drop any part of a source tree from the root down. MainView Middleware Monitor copies all the node tree properties and property values with the node tree.
   • Drag and drop nodes and folders within the target tree.
   • You can have more than one navigation node with the same name. To avoid mis-identification, we recommend you place similarly named nodes in separate, suitably named folders.
   • Clone from other navigation tabs by opening the source tab using the tabs at the bottom of the source tree pane.
8. When you drop a node into the target navigation tree a menu opens. Select as appropriate:
   • Select Clone to clone the contents from the source into the target tree at the drop point.
   • Select Move to drop the contents. Applies only to moving within the target tree itself.
   • Select Cancel to reverse the drop.
9. When done, click OK or Apply.

Changing target-tree node properties

1. Right-click the node in the target tree and select Properties.
2. Modify the property values as described in the Navigation tree context menu.

Securing navigation trees

Navigation tabs and trees can be locked to specific groups by an administrator Defining-user-access-and-security-settings.