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Change the Data Context for a View

You can change the context for a single view on a dashboard. The default group setting for the views that are shown on all dashboards is 'All Groups'. However, you can change the page-level context to filter using any other group.

Filters that are appropriate for each type of view drive the context for a view or page. Change the context to show data from a different managed item or from a different set of managed items.

Changing the context for a view is useful for troubleshooting performance issues. For example, assume that a view does not show performance data that appears to correlate with a problem you are investigating. You can select another managed item to compare data from the same time frame. You can edit a view of disk utilization for physical servers to show disk utilization for Virtual Machines instead. Or you can compare data from different geographical regions by leveraging your group structure to change the group context.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the dashboard that contains the view that you want to modify.
2. (Optional) Change the time frame, if necessary.
3. Click the Edit icon in the view whose context you want to change, and select Edit from the menu.

   The View Settings dialog opens.

4. Change the view Title or Subtitle to reflect the new context.

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

5. Take one of the following steps, depending on the context type you selected:
   • Click to expand folders in the Groups filter tree, and select the group whose data you want to see in the view.
   • Locate the managed item whose data you want to see in the view, and click the link in the table.
6. Select the scope of your changes from the Apply Changes drop-down. Select one of the following options:
   • 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.

   The view is updated with data from the new context. The lock icon and the name of your selected context appear in the view subtitle. The icon indicates that this view is fixed to the selected context, and no longer follows the context set for the dashboard page.

   To change the context of a view back to page-level context, select 'All Groups' in step 5 in these instructions.

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