InfoAsset Manager provides a number of spreadsheet style grid windows listing objects in the network. These views are divided into groups, each group containing grids for one class of object and related sub-objects.
Each column in the grid contains data for a particular field, with each row in the grid listing the values for a single object.
The grid windows do not always show all the data for an object. For example, tabular data about an object cannot be displayed. To view and edit all data for an object use the appropriate Property Sheets.
The grid windows in InfoAsset Manager are divided into the following sets:
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Asset Window |
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Zone Window | |
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Survey Window |
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Incident Window | |
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Repair Window |
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Resource Window | |
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Asset Name Group Window |
See Editing Data in Grid Windows for general information about working with grid windows and Editing Data in the Network Object Grid Window for additional information about editing network objects.
The grid windows can only be opened when the network is already open. The buttons will be disabled unless one of the views on the network is the current active window.
To open a network object grid window
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Click on the tabs at the bottom of the grid window to switch to different views within the grid.
Use the
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buttons to scroll backwards and forwards through the tabs displayed at the bottom of the window (this does not change the currently active tab).
Use the
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buttons to jump to the first/last tab on the view.
Example of grid window tabs taken from InfoAsset Manager
The currently active tab is coloured white. The tabs for network objects (objects that are visible on the GeoPlan window) are coloured in green. Tabs for sub-objects that define specific characteristics of network objects are coloured yellow.
Press CTRL+Page Up and CTRL+Page Down to switch between tabs by moving to the next tab on the left or to the next tab on the right respectively (this changes the currently active tab).
Hover over a column header with the cursor to display a tooltip showing the following information about the related object data field:
Display the property sheet for a particular network object simply by double clicking to the left of the row for that object.
Alternatively, right click on the row and select Properties from the popup menu.
Tabs on the grid windows can be hidden to make it easier to navigate through the views that actually contain network objects.
Right-click on any grid window tab and choose an option from the context menu:
Select the Show hidden tabs option to display all empty tabs in the current window.
Note: The state of hidden tabs is not remembered when the grid window is closed. However, hidden tab status will be saved when saving a Workspace.
It is possible to save and restore the grid layout for a particular grid type (all grids displaying a particular network object type), or restore the original default layout.
To save the current layout
This operation saves column width and position, along with details of frozen columns, but does not remember font size.
To restore a saved grid layout
To view what objects are related to the object selected in the grid
On the relevant network grid window, click on the box on the left of the row to select the object of interest.
A large variety of tasks may be performed from this window, such as viewing object properties or browsing further to related objects. See the Using the Object Browser Window topic for more information.