Customizing The Software Manager Workspace; Filtering The Package Display - Symantec SOFTWARE MANAGER 8.0 - REFERENCE FOR WISE PACKAGE STUDIO V1.0 Reference

Customizing the Software Manager Workspace

Filtering the Package Display

Software Manager Reference
See Viewing Resource Properties
Hide or show the toolbar or one of the panes by selecting its name from the View
menu.
Move, dock, and undock the panes as you would any Windows pane, by dragging
their title area.
The Applications/Packages pane and Package Details panes cannot be hidden or moved.
You can specify filter criteria to determine which packages appear in the Applications/
Packages pane. The filter criteria you specify remain the same for subsequent uses of
Software Manager.
To filter the package display
1. Select Packages menu > Filter.
The Filters dialog box appears.
2. To filter by package status, mark any combination of check boxes in the Package
Status to Display section.
3. To filter by whether the package is defined, mark check boxes in the Filter Based
on Package Definition section.
Display Defined Packages
Displays packages that were defined in either Workbench or Software Manager.
Display Undefined packages
Displays packages that do not have a package definition.
4. To filter the display by a meta data value, mark Filter based on Meta Data. Then
specify the following filter criteria:
Name
Select a meta data field name to filter packages by. The drop-down list contains
meta data fields that are defined in the selected database.
Operation
Select the operation to use when comparing the meta data value to the value
you enter below. The operations that are available depend on the data type of
the meta data field.
Value
Specify the meta data value to match.
5. To filter by package type, mark any combination of check boxes in the Package
Type to Display section.
6. Click OK.
See also:
Changing the Package Status
About Package Meta Data
on page 94.
on page 108
on page 25
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