The Components Page

The Components page allows you to list components, view component details, create components, and edit components. This page also contains controls for filtering the component list and selecting sort criteria. You can change the sort criteria for the components list by clicking on one of the sort arrows in the header area. Click either the ascending or descending arrow selects that column for sorting and the sort order.

Path

Allows you to specify where to look for or store components. Click on change path to specify a different path.

Show

Allows you to list either components or plans. If you select plans the HTML user interface displays the plans page as though you had click on the plans option in the left-hand navigation menu.

You can also narrow the list by selecting a category from the category pull down menu.

(Check Box)

Marks a component for inclusion when one of the actions are clicked in the Actions for Checked components area. When clicked, Actions for Checked components will either delete, check in, or categorize a component.

Component

A user definable text string that names the component object. By default, the components are listed in alphabetical order by component name. You can sort the components list by the items in this column by clicking on one of the sort arrows in the header area for this column. Click either the ascending or descending arrow selects this column for sorting and the sort order.

Type

A user definable object that is used to control how to handle resources.

For more information on component types see Building a Component.

Version

Displays the revision number of the component. Each time a component is modified, its version number is incremented.

You can sort the components list by the items in this column by clicking on one of the sort arrows in the header area for this column. Click either the ascending or descending arrow selects this column for sorting and the sort order.

Label

A optional user definable text string that can be used to further group components together.

You can sort the components list by the items in this column by clicking on one of the sort arrows in the header area for this column. Click either the ascending or descending arrow selects this column for sorting and the sort order.

Description

An optional user defined text string that describes the component object. This attribute is not used by the provisioning software but can provide meaningful information to the user.

Action

Links that take you to other component related pages to either create a new component, view more information about a specific component, or edit components.

Actions for Checked Component

From this area you can either delete, check in, or apply categories to the checked components.