Finisar Surveyor - Manual (Page 61)

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Configuring Surveyor
Configuring the Interface
In Surveyor, you can control the appearance of windows, the primary monitor view,
the appearance of tables and charts, and the colors of decode displays. The
following sections describe how to set up the interface to best meet your needs.
Customizing Views and Windows
The Surveyor graphical user interface is extremely flexible. It takes advantage of the
features of Windows to allow you to customize your interface.
Multiple windows can be opened within both Summary View and Detail View.
These sub-windows can be minimized, maximized, expanded, reduced, and tiled
within the area of the Summary or Detail View. You can open as many windows as
you have resources in Summary View. You can have all available views of a single
resource in Detail View. You can have one view per resource open within Summary
View.
Docking Windows
Summary View opens when Surveyor is started. The Summary View window is
composed of Summary View area and three docking windows. The docking
windows are:
• Alarm Browser
• Resource Browser
• Message View
You can size the docking windows by moving (click the left mouse and hold) the
borders separating the windows. You can move the borders all the way to the edge
of the
Summary View window, thus hiding the docking windows. You can also