How to create or change view definitions

A view is a list of the problems that you want to appear in the TIAS Problem Overview window. Once a TIAS user defines a view it appears in the View pull-down menu.

To select a view, do the following.

  1. Click on the View pull-down menu. The menu lists the defined views.
  2. Click on a view in the menu to select it or deselect it. A box appears next to currently selected views.
Which views are selected determines which problem instances appear in the Problem Overview window. As problem instances occur, the TIAS server sends them to views that are subscribed to those problems. It sends the views to clients subscribed to the views.

How to create or change a view

To create or change a view, select View from the Definitions menu. The View Definitions dialog box appears.

The View Definitions dialog box

The View Definitions dialog box shows a list of the currently defined views. The list includes user-defined and default view definitions.

Defining a new view

To define a new view, do the following:
  1. Click on the New button. The View Editor dialog box appears.

    The View Editor dialog box

  2. In the View Name field, enter a name for the new view you are creating.

  3. In the Prob Def field, enter a definition of the following format.

    string1|string2|...

    Each string in the example consists of a problem definition name. Each string is separated by a pipe character ( | ), which means "or."

    The problem definition name in each string is of the following format

    category-name

  4. Click on the Apply button. The client sends the view definition to the server, making it accessible to users of other clients, allowing them to subscribe to it.

    If the TIAS client is not successful in sending the definition to the server, an error message appears.
The name of the view you have created now appears in the View pull-down menu.

Changing an existing view

To change an existing view, do the following:
  1. Select View from the Definitions menu. The View Definitions dialog box appears.
  2. Select the view you want to change from the list of existing views.
  3. Click on the Edit button. The View Editor dialog box appears, populated with data for the view you selected.
  4. Change the entries in any of the fields.
  5. Click on the Apply button.
The view is updated to reflect the changes you made.
NOTE
If you give the view a new name, and then save it, you create a new view definition.

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