Select Perspective Values in Advanced Controls

You can assign perspective values to models, advanced controls, and incident results.

  • Assign values to a model in the Perspective Assignment panel of the page to create or edit the model.
  • Assign values to a control and to the incidents it generates both at once. You can do this in the Perspectives page of the control-deployment process, the page to edit a control individually, or the page to mass-edit controls. In each, you can make two selections: In Control Perspective Assignment, you select values that apply to the control itself. In Result Perspective Assignment, you select values that apply to incidents generated by the control.
  • Modify the values an incident inherits from the control that generated it. Use a Result Perspective Assignment panel in the page to edit an incident individually, or to mass-edit incidents.

In any of these cases, you initially work with a single list field. Select a perspective hierarchy in that field, and the panel expands to display Available and Selected fields. Move the values you want from the Available field to the Selected field.

As you select values:

  • You can type text in a Perspective Name search field to produce a list of matching perspective values. The search returns values without concern for hierarchical relationships.

  • You can use View options to expand or contract the entire hierarchy or nodes within the hierarchy.

Also note the following:

  • For an object's perspective-selection list field to be available, you must associate at least one perspective hierarchy with that object. You can associate perspectives with objects in the Module Perspectives page of the Setup and Administration work area.

  • A hierarchy name may appear with an asterisk in the list field in which you select it for an object. That means it's required for the object; you can't save an instance of that object if no value is selected from that hierarchy. (The required designation is made when the hierarchy is associated with the object in the Module Perspectives page.)

  • If two or more perspective hierarchies are associated with an object, you can assign values from any combination of them, although you select from one hierarchy at a time.