Elements Pages

Layout of the edition page

The Layout is devided in 3 sections :

• Action Menu
• Element Configuration Tabs
  • It contain all information of an element.
• Contextual Information and Help

Action Menu

This Menu provides to the Administrator the common actions to Validate, Cancel, or Delete the selected object.

• When validating a configuration, the object will be placed in the list of Changes to Apply.
• If the Administrator click on the Cancel button, every changes made after previous saving, will be lost.
• If the Delete button is clicked, a confirmation popup will be disaplayed,
  
  • asking the Administrator to validate or cancel the deletion of object.

Element Configuration Tabs

As they are numerous, elements properties are split by category among tabs.

• Tabs list will be differtent following the type of the selected element.
• Tab layout is always the same:
  
  • A list of properties linked to the category
  • A row of this list contains altways 3 columns:
    • Name of Property
    • Value of Property
    • Value inherited from template
      ( only for hosts, checks and contact)
      

      Note:

      Values displayed in purple are by default value or inherited from a template.
      
• Values Editing Field can be of different kind:

• • Textfield:

• • • type the value

• • Tag Editing field

• • • Type the value
    • Typed caracters may match an existing tag:
      • If yes, list below will show you possible values.
        Clicking or pressing enter will validate the choice.
      • If not, you can create a new tag by pressing the space bar.

• • Tag Adding Dropdown list
    • Select in the dropdown list the tag you want

Note: You can't create tag for this value.

• • Dropdown list
    • Select int the dropdown list the value you want

Note: Only one value is possible for this fied.

• • Toggle buttons
    
    • Select one of the 3 possibles values (True, False, Inherit)

Note: the green one is the one selected.

• • Horizontal gauge

• • • Move the cursor up to the expected value.

Contextual Informations

This panel is used to help the Administrator, by showing two kind of informations  :

• Legend : information to explain the display of the page.
• Contextual Help :
  • Move the mouse on property you want some information
  • The Help Area will contain the description text and some tips
    for the edition of the property