Apama 10.11.3 | Building and Using Apama Dashboards | Using the Dashboard Viewer | Using the Dashboard Viewer | The Dashboard Viewer menu bar
 
The Dashboard Viewer menu bar
There are four menus on the menu bar. Each has a number of nested menu options.
Menu > Command
Description
File
All operations related to opening, printing, and closing dashboards
File > Open
Open a dashboard.
File > Print
Print the contents of a dashboard.
File > Exit
Exit the Dashboard Viewer.
View
All operations that manipulate the dashboard view.
View > Zoom In
Zoom in on a location in the dashboard. This switches the pointer to zoom mode, as indicated by the pointer changing to a crosshair (Image of a crosshair pointer). In this mode, you can click on an area of the dashboard to zoom in on it and display it in greater detail. Right click to exit zoom mode.
View > Zoom Out
Zoom out on a location in the dashboard. This switches the pointer to zoom mode, as indicated by the pointer changing to a crosshair (Image of a crosshair pointer). In this mode you can click on an area of the dashboard to zoom out on it and display it in less detail. Right click to exit zoom mode.
View > Zoom Rect
Zoom in on an area of the dashboard. This switches the pointer to zoom mode, as indicated by the pointer changing to a crosshair (Image of a crosshair pointer). In this mode you can click and drag to select an area of the dashboard to zoom in on. Right click to exit zoom mode.
View > Pan
Pan the dashboard to show areas not currently displayed. This switches the pointer to pan mode, as indicated by the pointer changing to the pan pointer (Image of a pan pointer). In this mode you can click and drag the dashboard to reveal areas not displayed. Right click to exit pan mode. It is not possible to pan if 100% of the dashboard view is visible.
View > 100%
Make the entire dashboard visible.
Tools
Change preferences
Tools> Pause Display
Pause the automatic updating of the dashboard. When not paused the dashboard automatically updates as data changes; when paused, updating does not occur. When paused, clicking on the dashboard will cause it to update.
Help > Help Contents
Displays the Apama documentation for your installation.
Help > Command Line Options
Displays a list of the Viewer options that you can supply at the command line.
Help > About
Displays information about this version of the Dashboard Viewer.