About Spotlight Grids
A table or grid shows values in tabular form. The grid component is used in Spotlight alarms and drilldowns.
Actions common to Spotlight grids
Notes:
- Not all items are available with all grids.
- If not all the grid can be seen all at the one time then scroll bars allow you to choose the visible portion.
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Find Text |
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Alarms: Alarm Filters. |
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Tree View |
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Select Multiple Rows |
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Select Multiple Rows |
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Save To File |
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Copy To Clipboard |
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Show, Hide & Order Columns |
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Sort the Grid |
| Right click the table body and select What's This? | View help specific to the gird. |
| Right click the table body and select Print | |
| Right click the table body and select Restore Default Settings | Restore Default Settings |
| Right click the table body and select View as Chart. | View the data in a Spotlight chart. About Spotlight Charts |
| Right click the table body and select Properties. | Freeze the first column or word-wrap text. Grid Properties - Options Page |
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If the diagnostic server is unable to collect the data required, Spotlight displays a small icon on the affected component. Click the icon to see more information about the problem. |
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Pause / Resume / Refresh |
Find Text
To find a specified string of text in a Spotlight grid
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Open the Find dialog.
Toolbar Menu Shortcut Click Right click the grid data and select Find.
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Use the controls:
Control Description Text to find
Enter or paste in the text you want to find.
Match case
Select to match the case of the text exactly. When selected a search for the string AbC will not find the string abc.
Match entire cell contents
Select to match the contents of the table cell exactly. When selected a search for the string Spot will not find the string Spotlight.
Up
Search upwards from the current location then stop.
Down
Search downwards from the current location then stop.
Search all columns
Search all columns of the table.
Search selected column only
Search only the highlighted column.
Find next
Find the next occurrence of the text in the grid.
Note: The Find function may be of limited use in dynamic columns (Elapsed time is one example) whose values are continually updated.
Sort The Grid
To sort the grid according to the contents of a column
Click the column header. An arrow appears to the right of the header
Notes:
- The arrow points down when the column is sorted in descending order, up when the column is sorted in ascending order.
- Click the arrow to alternate ascending / descending order.
- Click a different header to select a different column to sort by.
- To sort by a column that is hidden, right-click the header row and select Arrange by | column name .
To sort the grid according to the contents of multiple columns
Keep the SHIFT key depressed when sorting by the second or later column.
For example, to sort the grid in the Alarm Log page by severity and then, within that sort, by action:
- Click the Severity header.
- While keeping the SHIFT key depressed, click the Action header.
Tree View
The first column in a Spotlight grid may show data as a simple text string or (if available) a hierarchical tree structure.
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Note: When you sort a table in tree view, the table is sorted first according to the highest level in the tree. The individual branches and sub-branches of the tree are sorted separately in the same order. Sort the Grid
| Tree View in Drilldowns | Tree View in Alarm Pages |
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to toggle Tree View on or off. Drilldown grids with this button on their toolbar can be viewed as a simple text string or a hierarchical tree structure. |
Alarm pages Spotlight Today and Alarms by Time are displayed in a tree structure when Group By Connection or Group By Alarm is applied . To manage the Tree View display, right click on the grid content and select Collapse or Expand. |