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Manage Perspectives

After customizing the pictorial view of your data, you can save the view as a perspective. Saving a perspective helps you or others reuse the view and apply it to a different object of the same type.

Example:

You have customized the pictorial view of your data while working on an LPAR. Your colleagues are working one another LPAR. You want your colleagues to apply the customizations to a different object of the same type residing on that LPAR. To do so, you can save the customized pictorial-view as a public-perspective.

To save a perspective, click the Perspectives and Maps icon, click Save Perspective, fill out the appropriate fields, and click Save. You can save a perspective with only one root node.

To apply a perspective, select an object from the Topology Viewer, click the Perspectives and Maps icon, click Apply Perspective, click the + sign on the perspective, and select Apply. The owners of the perspectives can edit, duplicate, and delete their entries.

When you modify an applied public-perspective, your edits are saved to a copy. The original perspective stays unchanged.

If you change a perspective (for example, applying a filter, adding nodes, and so on) after it has been applied to an object, you cannot remove the perspective.