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Inventory Pages Overview
An inventory page appears when you select an application, select a workspace, then select a task. It is often the starting point for performing tasks. Inventory pages provide information about all instances of a specific type of object. For example, to view the users inventory page to perform tasks on all users in the system, you select the Users workspace icon then select the Manage Users task. To view the devices page to perform task on a devices in the network, you select the Devices workspace icon, then select the Manage Devices task.
Inventory pages have two views: thumbnail and tabular. Figure 1 shows the thumbnail view of the Manage Devices inventory page for managing devices and identifies the major components that are common to all inventory pages.
Figure 1: Manage Devices Inventory Page
Inventory Panel
The inventory panels lists the objects in the inventory either as thumbnail icons or in a tabular form. You can switch between thumbnail and tabular views by selecting the thumbnail view selector or tabular view selector icon in the inventory page header.
Thumbnail View
By default, an inventory page shows a thumbnail view of each object in the inventory panel. Selected items appear with a grey background. The thumbnail always has a name associated with it, and might include additional decorations to provide more information about the object. For example, in the Manage Service Definitions inventory page, a decoration might indicate whether a specific service definition is standard or custom. Figure 2 shows an example of the inventory page with icons with status and decoration indicators.
Figure 2: Inventory Page—Thumbnail View
For inventories that will not fit on one screen, navigation is through the standard table controls at the bottom of the screen.
The paging controls at the bottom of the inventory panel determines how many icons appear on one page. The zoom slider determines the size of the icon on the screen (see Paging Controls). If the screen is to small to show all thumbnail icons for a given page size at the icon size set by the zoom slider, then a scroll bar appears to the right of the inventory panel to allow you to access the icons off screen.
Tabular View
The Tabular View selector displays inventory information in tabular form. Selected items are indicated by a check mark and highlighting. You can sort information in each of the table columns. For more information, see Viewing and Sorting Tabular Data.
Figure 3 shows an example of the Manage Service Definitions inventory page in tabular view.
Figure 3: Inventory Page—Tabular View
In the tabular view, the Show items drop-down list box determines how many rows appear on each page of the table. If the selected value is more than can fit on one screen, a scroll bar appears to the right to access the off screen rows.
Quick Look Panel
Single click an object in the inventory panel once to see summary information about that object in the Quick Look panel. Double-click more complex objects to see more details.
Actions Panel
Select an object in the inventory panel, then selecting the action link you want to perform in the Actions panel. For example, to delete a device from the inventory, select the device in the Manage Devices inventory panel, then click the Delete link in the Actions panel.
Actions in the Actions panel are dimmed if the object you selected does not support the selected action in its current state.
Search and Filter
The Search and Filter field on the right of the task header bar enables you to find a specific object.
Multiple Object Selection
The inventory page allows you to select multiple objects so that you can perform batch operations on them.
The Single and Multiple buttons at the top of the Quick Look panel switch between single and multiple selection modes. Once in multiple selection mode, selected objects are added to the Selections list, which replaces the quick view panel as shown in Figure 4.
The Single/Multiple panel option appears only on inventory pages that support batch operations. The service definition inventory, for example, has no bulk operations, so the Single/Multiple selection panel does not appear. Similarly, if only one item appears in a device inventory, the single/multiple section panel does not appear.
Figure 4: Multiple Selection Mode of Devices in Manage Devices Inventory Panel
You can deselect items before selecting a batch action. Deselected items remain in the Selections list, but no longer check marked.
When you have selected the objects you want, you can use any of the commands in the Actions panel to perform operations on those objects.
Paging Controls
Paging controls at the bottom of the inventory panel allow you to navigate the inventory when the inventory is too large to fit on one page. Using these controls, you can go to a specific page, navigate to the next or previous page, navigate to the first or last page of the inventory, or refresh the inventory view.
To access a specific page, in the Page field, type the page number and press Enter.
Other table controls are described in Table 1.
Table 1: Table Paging and Refreshing Controls
Table Control | Operation |
|---|---|
 | Advances to the next page of the table. |
 | Returns to the previous page of the table. |
 | Displays the last page of the table. |
 | Displays the first page of the table. |
 | Refreshes the table content. |
