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Change the Context for a View

You can change the context for some individual views on a dashboard. Change the context of an enterprise-wide view to show data from a different set of managed items. Change the context of an interface-specific view in the CA Performance Center Console to show data from a different interface.

Changing the view context can be useful for troubleshooting. You can compare data from different locations, for example.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the dashboard that contains the view that you want to change.
2. (Optional) Change the time frame, if necessary.
3. Open the dialog for editing the view settings:
   • (CA PC) Click the Edit icon in the view title bar and select Edit from the menu.
   • (NPC) Click the View icon next to the view name and select Edit from the menu.

     The settings dialog opens.

4. Take one of the following steps:
   • (CA PC) Enterprise view: Click to expand folders in the Groups filter tree, and select the group whose data you want to see in the view.
   • (CA PC) Interface view: Locate the interface whose data you want to see in the view, and click the link in the table.
   • (NPC) Click the 'Filter by' value and select a group in the Select Context dialog.

     If the settings dialog does not contain a 'Filter by' option, you cannot change the context for the view.

   The context types that are available depend on the type of view.

5. (Optional) Change the view Title to reflect the new context.
6. Select the scope of your changes from the Apply Changes drop-down. Select one of the following options:
   • (CA PC) For All Tenant Users: Saves the changes so that they are only available to users associated with your tenant (possibly the Default Tenant).
   • My User Account: Saves the changes to your user account as a default for this view.
   • My Current Session: Reverts the changes when you log out.

   Note: The availability of these options depends on your user account role rights.

7. Click Save (CA PC) or OK (NPC).

   The view is updated to show data from the new context.

You can also change the context for a custom dashboard, which applies the selected group or managed item as a filter to all views on the page.