Template Types

STA provides a default template for each screen, as well as a set of pre-defined templates. You can also create your own custom templates, tailored to your needs.

Default Template

Each Overview and Analysis screen has a Default template, which is automatically applied whenever you navigate to the screen. To apply a different template, you simply select the template you want to use from the list in the Templates menu. If after applying a new template, you leave the screen and then return later, the Default template is applied again.

Pre-defined Templates

STA is delivered with a set of pre-defined templates that provide you with frequently used information about library resources (libraries, drives, media) and events (exchanges, cleaning activities, and notifications).

Pre-defined templates are available to all users. You can use them as is, or modify them and save the changes as custom templates. If you modify or delete a pre-defined template, you can later restore the original.

Custom Templates

Custom templates can be created by any STA user, and any number of custom templates can be created for each screen.

You create a custom template by applying modifications to the current screen—such as changing graphed attributes, re-ordering columns in a list view table, and/or applying filter criteria—and then saving the new display as a template. When you save a template you assign it a unique name and designate whether it is private or public, as follows:

Once you have saved a custom template, it is immediately available for the current and future login sessions. Each user has access to all public templates as well as the private templates saved under their username.