Workspace customization

General information

A workspace is a configuration of the main NFM-P GUI elements, such as the window layout or menu options. System-defined workspaces are provided, but you can also create and save your own customized workspaces to simplify navigation and operation according to your requirements.

There are three types of workspaces:

• System-defined—these workspaces are read-only and are provided as part of the NFM-P product. System-defined workspaces cannot be modified.

• Private—a private workspace contains your customized settings and is visible only to you and an administrator.

• Public—a public workspace is usable by all users on the same server. Only users with the required permissions can modify a public workspace.

You can customize the following workspace elements:

• Window layouts—save your window location and size preferences for the navigation tree and main NFM-P GUI window.

• Tab preferences—save tab preferences as part of a workspace.

• Menus—create custom menus with user-defined names, remove menu items that you don’t need, re-order the sequence in which menu items appear, rename menu items, and add grouping separators and custom mnemonics.

• Toolbar—add, remove, re-order and rename menu icon buttons on the toolbar. You can also add custom toolbar menus, which contain selected menu items and optional grouping separators.

• Tree labels—on the routing and equipment navigation trees, choose the information to display in the label text fields, and the order in which it appears.

• List forms—organize the content of the object type drop-down menus and select which buttons are displayed on some specific list forms.

You can create new custom workspaces based on a system-defined workspace or on another custom workspace, and you can modify existing custom workspaces. You must have the required scope of command permissions to create or modify public workspaces. Scope of command roles and user group workspace permissions are defined by a system administrator.

You can save custom workspaces by exporting them to a specified directory. You can share these saved workspaces with another user or reuse these saved workspaces by importing them into another NFM-P server.

Later releases of the NFM-P may contain newly-introduced menu items that are not in the custom workspaces of an earlier release. You can add new menu items to custom workspaces that were exported in an earlier release and then imported in a later release. For convenience, the NFM-P separately lists the newly-introduced menu items; see To add new menu items to a custom workspace of an earlier NFM-P release .

The workspace selector located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen contains a list of system-defined and custom workspaces, and allows you to replace the current workspace with another from this list. You can add or remove custom workspaces in the workspace selector, and change the order in which workspaces appear in the list. See To configure the workspace selector and To apply a different workspace using the workspace selector .

Note: Custom settings for tabs on configuration forms are saved as user preferences. They are not configured or saved as part of custom workspaces. See To set local tab preferences for configuration forms and To temporarily display hidden tabs on property forms .