OEM User's Guide

Custom Views
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Creating a New Custom View
Creating a New Custom View
You can create new Custom Views at any time and create as many as you need.
To create a new Custom View:
1. Do one of the following:
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Right-click the OEM icon in the system tray and choose New Custom View.
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From a Custom View window’s File menu, choose New Custom View.
A new Custom View window named Default is created using the default
configuration settings.
2. Alter these settings as desired. For example, you can add or remove specifiers and
state filters or change the display mode.
3. Save the configuration to a new Custom View definition file by choosing Save As
from the File menu. The new file name is used as the name of the new view.
By default, view definition files are saved to the OEM_program_directory\Views
folder, but you can change this location when you save the configuration.
Opening an Existing Custom View
You can open an existing Custom View using either of two methods.
Method 1:
1. Right-click the OEM icon in the system tray and choose Open Custom View.
A dialog box appears so you can choose the Custom View definition file to open.
2. Select the file and click Open.
The OEM reads the configuration information from the definition file and creates a
new window to display the Custom View data.
Method 2:
1. Choose Open from an existing Custom View window’s File menu, or click Open
on the toolbar.
A dialog box appears so you can choose which Custom View definition file to open.
2. Select the file and click Open.
The OEM reads the configuration information from the definition file and displays
the Custom View data using the existing window. In this case, the existing display
Note. Saving the configuration using the default view name of Default updates the default
configuration for all subsequent new views. This action can be useful if, for example, you
want to use a certain set of configuration properties in all cases. By updating the default
configuration settings, all new views pick up these options automatically, reducing the
number of options you must set each time you create a new view.