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An example of a management view.
Top bar
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In the picture above we have the top bar. The top bar has two parts.
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The button bar will be covered in more depth
Management
Management is usually made up from a set of three 3 buttons. Add, Edit/Configuration and Delete. Some views will have extra buttons such as Export or Copy. The first two buttons will open up an editor where you can edit account details and save them. The Delete button will open a confirmation dialog for deleting the selected accounts.
You can only edit one account at a time, so if you have multiple accounts selected you will not be able to press the edit button. You can delete multiple accounts at a time and the confirmation dialog will show you the selected accounts that will be deleted.
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The Add button, depending on the view might have extra functions, such as Copy of (item), which will use an already selected entry as a template to create a new entry.
Edit or in some cases Configuration, will allow for the editing of the selected item. Usually this opens up the editor view for the selected item. If the button reads Configuration instead of Edit, it will mean that there will be multiple configuration options for the currently selected item.
Delete, which will depending on the view either Hard-delete, meaning the deletion will be effective immediately or Soft-delete, meaning the deletion will not be effective immediately and will only be deleted when certain conditions are met.
Filtering
Views that have entries that have a lot of information linked to them will have an option to filter these entries. This allows for the filtering of properties that will not be found in the entry table and also allows for more advanced filtering options.
Filtering consists of 4 parts.:
Filtering button will open up a new dialog dialogue with various filtering options
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Clear filters, which will clear all the filters currently set
Custom text search, which will filter entries based on their names.
Show advanced filters, will show additional filters for each column in the entry table.
Actions
Actions is a button found on the right side of the screen in the top bar. In some cases there will also be a “Info” drop-down menu for viewing information about selected users.
The actions drop-down menu has many capabilities. These all depend on the currently viewed management view, but will generally be actions that can be enacted upon the selected usersselected entries.
In some cases there will also be a “Info” drop-down menu for viewing information about selected items. This option is limited to views that will have a lot of information bound to the entries.
Entry table
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The entry table is the big a table that will take up most of the screen space. This will contain entries of the currently viewed management view.
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On the bottom-left you can see the number of selected entries.
On the bottom-right you can view entries in pages.
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