Tabular views

You use a tabular view to display:
  • Selected attributes from multiple instances of a managed object.
  • Summarized records based on one selected attribute of the managed object.

When you create a tabular display, you first select the managed object and then the attributes you want to display. The view editor offers you the choice of all the attributes available for that managed object. You can create one or more tabular views for each managed object, each tabular view containing attributes that are relevant to a specific task.

Fields in a tabular display can be defined as text or graphical representations. They are display only and cannot be modified. You can specify whether the data for that attribute can be sorted in ascending and descending order, and whether the attribute can be used as the basis for a summarized view. Depending on the type of data in the column, you can also indicate how this attribute should be summarized on a summarized view when another attribute in the same view is used as the basis of a summary view.
Note: Specifying a summary type for an attribute, will set the same summary type for all fields using the same attribute name on the view.

You can link from a tabular view to one or more tabular and detail views, depending on the task you want the user to perform. For example, from a tabular view of task resources, you could link to detail views showing clock settings, terminal details, and so on. See Components of a view for details of how you might do this.

You can add buttons to a tabular view that perform an action immediately, or you can choose to display a confirmation panel. See Confirmation panels for details.

You can control the display options available to each tabular view. These display options allow you to:
  • Make this tabular view the default view for the view set. If you select this option, this view will be used for view links that do not target a specific view within the view set. See Default views for information about default views.
  • Choose whether the automatic refresh option will be available for this view.
  • Choose whether all object instances on this view can be selected at once so that an action can be performed against them all, or if each object instance should be selected in turn.
  • Select the maximum number of rows that should be displayed on a single page of this view.
  • In the case of views related to definitional objects, choose whether or not to include a Map button in order to generate a map of associated definitions. See How to map CICSPlex SM definitions for information about the map function.

The summarized view is a special case of the tabular view. When you create a tabular view, you specify which of the attributes in the view may be used as the basis of the summary view. You can select as many attributes as you like, or none at all. When a tabular view is summarized, the same view is used to display the summarized data.