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Creating and Changing Views with the View Definition Wizard (Overview)

You might find that a view shipped with Archibus Web Central does not quite meet your needs and you'd like to change the fields that display, set a restriction, or make other changes. Similarly, you might find that you need to create your own views to meet the particular needs of your site.

If you have the proper security permissions, you can edit and create views using the View Definition Wizard. If you are a power user, you might have access to the Reports-Only View Definition Wizard that enables you to create custom reports using the tables to which you have been granted access. See Reports-Only View Definition Wizard.

Note : Archibus SaaS supports only the Report-Only View Definition Wizard.

Note : You can also create reports with Reports Central.

The View Definition Wizard walks you through the steps of creating the following types of view and edit forms:

Interactive Reports

• Report
• Drill-down to a report
• Two-level drill-down to a report

Paginated Reports

• A paginated report with one data band
• A paginated report with one summary band and one data band
• A paginated report with one parent band and one child band
• A paginated report with two parent bands and one child band
• A paginated report with highlighted drawings
• A paginated report with thematically highlighted drawings

View Analysis Views

• Summary report
• Drill-down to a summary report
• Summary chart
• Summary Chart (2D)
• Drill-down to a summary chart

Edit Forms

• Select-edit form (vertical)
• Select-edit form (horizontal)
• Console filtering a select list and its edit form
• Drill-down to a select list and its edit form
• Two-level drill down to a select list with a pop-up edit form

A column report

• Column report
• A drill-down to a select list and its column report

A URL view

• Loads a URL that you specify
• This is useful for displaying non-Web Central content (such as stock market quotes) in Archibus views.
• You can also use URL views inside dashboards.

If you wish a more sophisticated view than available through the options of the View Definition Wizard, you can use the Wizard to start your view and then use its Enable Advanced Editing option to directly edit the code.

With the View Definition Wizard you can:

• create new XML views (.axvw files) in the 2.0 format
• re-create 1.0 views as to 2.0 views
• re-create Archibus BasicScript views (.avw files) as 2.0 format views

Note: To convert (rather than re-create) 1.0 format views to 2.0 format, see Converting 1.0 Views to 2.0 Format .