Views

Views support editors and provide alternative presentations or navigations of the information in your workbench.  For example:

A view might appear by itself or stacked with other views in a tabbed notebook.  

To activate a view that is part of a tabbed notebook simply click on its tab. For example, to activate the Repositories view, click on the Repositories tab at the bottom of the notebook.  As we will soon discover, the workbench provides a number of quick and easy ways to configure your environment, including whether the tabs are at the bottom or top of our notebooks. 

Views have two menus, a popup menu associated with the top left area of the view which allows you to manipulate the view in much the same manner as the menu associated with the workbench window.

The second menu is accessed by clicking on the down arrow . The view pull-down menu typically contains operations that apply to the entire contents of the view, but not to a specific item shown in the view. Operations for sorting and filtering are commonly found on the view pull-down. 

 

Views can be undocked from the workbench window and can exist in "floating" windows . Undocked views can also be docked back into the workbench window. Later in this tutorial we will see how to rearrange our workbench. 

In the event you decided to experiment by rearranging your workbench, this is probably a good opportunity to use the Perspective > Reset menu operation. The reset operation restores the layout  to it's original state. 

You can display a view by selecting it from the Perspective > Show View menu. A perspective determines the views you are likely to need and shows these on the Show View submenu. Additional views are available by choosing Other... at the bottom of the Show View submenu. As we will see later this is just one of the many features that allows you to build your own custom work environment.