Accessing the Object Navigator tools

The Object Navigator displet provides specialized tools for navigating your instances. You can access these tools in different ways, depending on how your administrator has configured the displet. The following ways are possible:

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Through icons

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Through the contextual menu (from a right click)

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By clicking directly on an instance

Icons

Tools are accessible from icons in the Object Navigator toolbar. The icons available depend on which tools your administrator has configured. Hover your mouse over an icon to find the name of the tool it represents:

In this example, the user is hovering the mouse over an icon which has been selected to represent the action "synchronize all". Selecting an instance in the Object Navigator and then clicking this icon would synchronize all other (compatible) displets on the Portal page with the selected instance.

Clicking an instance

As well as providing access to the tools through icons and the menu, your administrator might also configure certain tools to be launched directly from a single or double-click an instance. In other words, you may be able to (double) click an instance to immediately load a report into the Report displet, or call the Graph on Demand displet to load a graph for that instance simply by clicking its name in the Object Navigator.

Note: All these tools may vary in your configuration. The icons used, and the access modes available, all depend on the configuration chosen by your administrator. Configuration procedures are covered in the VistaPortal Author Guide and the VistaPortal Administration Guide.