File Menu Group; Save Current View; Figure 3-10: File Menu - ADIC Scalar 100 User Manual

File Menu Group

The File Menu Group offers commands for loading, manipulating, and saving view files.
See Figure 3-10.

Figure 3-10: File Menu

A view file is a list of SNCs viewed at any one given time. Each user can save preferred
views on the server. Loading a previous view automatically connects the user to one or
more SNCs in a single step rather than specifying connections to them individually.
Because they are stored on the server, the same views are available to the user from any
client.
You can have many views. At the beginning of a session, you can choose to load a view
from the Open a Previous View menu, which displays all the views that you saved
previously (for your logon account only) so that you can recall an earlier viewing
environment.

Save Current View

A view is defined by the current collection being viewed. For this option to be available
(not grayed-out), the current view name must be known either from a previous loading or
a Save Current View as operation. For example, if you initially load a view that includes
the SNCs in Scalar 100s that are being used to store data for Floor 2, Floor 3, and
Basement, and then during the course of the session decide to disconnect from the SNC
handling Floor 2's storage, performing a Save Current View only saves a view of the
SNCs handling storage connections for the Floor 3 and Basement Scalar 100s. The
original view is overwritten by the new view. If you did not perform a Save Current
View, the original view of the three SNCs managing Floor 2, Floor 3, and Basement SANs
is still valid for the next time that view is loaded.
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