View Bar Definition

The view bar displays buttons for all open views. You can click any of the buttons in the bar to display a view. The button for the current view is highlighted with a solid black rectangle in the view bar. If the current view has a topology change pending, the associated view button will be highlighted with a solid red rectangle.

To update the view, select the Refresh Now function (on the View menu). If a view that is open, but not currently displayed, receives an update, then the button for that view is highlighted with a dashed red border.

If you increase the size of the view bar, live images of the view will display on the view buttons. The view buttons may be arranged in a grid layout. The console determines the number of rows needed to best fit the view buttons on the view bar. The image on the view button refreshes if one of the following occurs:

Notes:

  1. The view buttons will not be refreshed for changes to the view which are made at the client, such as customization of the view layout. To reflect changes made at the client in the view buttons, one of the three previously listed events must occur.
  2. The view buttons will not display live images for views in details mode.

You can hide individual buttons by right clicking on the view button to be hidden and selecting Hide View Button from the resulting context menu. Though the hidden views remain open, this function enables you to reduce the clutter on the view bar and see only the view buttons you choose. If you are navigating through your views and have opened intermediate views to reach a specific view, for example, this function enables you to hide the intermediate views to focus on the ones with which you are working.

You can show the buttons you have hidden by:

You can display or hide the view bar with the Show View Bar function from the Options pull-down menu.

To enable external Web access, you must specify proxy information on the General page of the Console Properties notebook.