Working with collection views and viewlets

Each collection view contains one or more viewlets. There are three types of viewlets: resource, standard, and view panel.

Resource viewlets

A resource viewlet is specific to a single instance of a resource. In Figure 3–2, for example, each viewlet shows information about the FathomTrendDatabase resource.

Figure 3–2: Sample resource viewlets

Standard viewlets

A standard viewlet is predefined by Fathom for displaying content about multiple resources or other aspects of Fathom.

For example, as shown in Figure 3–3, you can set up a viewlet of active monitoring plans.

Figure 3–3: Sample Standard viewlet

The viewlet displays the currently active monitoring plans (or schedules).

Other standard viewlets that Fathom provides are as follows:

View panel viewlets

A view panel viewlet displays a view for any other collection being referenced by the active collection. Your ability to define views in one collection that you can display in another collection contributes to centralized, streamlined maintenance while also eliminating the need to create duplicate viewlets of the same data.

Figure 3–4 shows the sample view in the My Collections.Home.DBs collection. The sample view contains viewlets showing the View left panel and the View right panel of the Default view in the DBs.OEserver collection.

Figure 3–4: View panel viewlets


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