The Web Workspace is a real-time application that provides the tool sets and views that are the foundation of the Oracle Utilities Network Management System user environment. The common features and platform provided by the Web Workspace provide a cohesive user experience for Oracle Utilities Network Management System modules. This section provides information on common Web Workspace features, including the following topics:

Web Workspace features and functionality are accessed through menus and toolbar buttons. A particular configuration of a user type's environment determines whether a tool is displayed as a window when you first log in to the system.

The Web Workspace window contain the following components:

This section describes the menu and toolbar options. In the tables below, each menu item is listed along with submenu options, if available, and the default toolbar icon, if applicable; menu items without a default toolbar icon are indicated with a double dash(--) in the toolbar icon cell.

 

The User Menu provides submenus with options to change the appearance and functionality of user interface elements, transfer control of the session to another user, and log out of the Web Workspace.

The User Interface Settings submenu allows you to set how Web Workspace windows appear to you.

By default, dates and times are displayed in the time zone where the application server is located. The Change Time Zone option allows you to change the time zone for your user, if your application is hosted in a different time zone, or for any other reason. The current time zone is preselected, and is also visible on the About dialog box for confirmation.

Choose a time zone from the list and click OK for this to take effect for all of your applications launched from your Oracle Utilities Network Management System Web Start page. You will need to restart your applications for this to take effect.

The Table Settings submenu allows you to configure how tables will appear.

Annunciators, located in the bottom right corner of the Web Workspace window, are a combination of symbolic and text-based notifications of system statuses. In the base environment, annunciator alerts are displayed for the statuses listed below.

Some Web Workspace tools display as dock panes within the Web Workspace, and others display as standalone windows. Dock panes may be moved within the Web Workspace, dragged out of the Web Workspace window where they may float or be docked in a window frame (see Creating Window Frames).

Web Workspace tool windows may be moved and sized in many ways. Initially, window positioning is determined by the product or project configuration, but you may move and size windows to support your workflow and preferences. You can save your window configuration for future sessions by using Manage Workspace Layouts (see Managing Your Workspace Layout for information).

A frame is a user-defined container that can be used to organize Web Workspace tools. The frame (and the tools that you place within it) can then be stored as part of a Workspace Layout (see Managing Your Workspace Layout for information).

To create a frame:

Dock panes can be arranged within the Web Workspace, added to frames, or allowed to float outside of windows.

Use a dock pane's title bar or right-click menu options to re-arrange it:

When the Web Workspace or a frame already contains a dock pane tool, you can arrange other dock pane tools in it:

Standalone windows differ from dock panels in that they can be minimized and maximized.

You can toggle tools to behave as standalone windows or as dock panels. To turn a dock panel tool into a Standalone Window, from the dock panel tool's File menu, select Toggle Dockable Window. Note that the window has a thicker title bar that allows you to maximize and minimize the window.

To toggle a Standalone Window into a dock panel:

Windows and dock panel can be resized by dragging the corners or edges to the desired width or height.

You can switch between open tools by pressing Ctrl+Tab, which will display a list of open applications. The list is ordered so the most recently used tools are at the top. You can cycle through the applications by continuing to hold the Ctrl key and pressing Tab until the tool you wish to switch to is highlighted; the highlighted tool will become active when you release the Ctrl key. You can go backwards in the list by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Tab. You can also hold the Tab key to quickly cycle through the entries in the list, which may be useful when you have many tools open.

Web Workspace starts with a standard configuration for font sizes and tool settings, such as column size and order. You can make adjustment to the workspace and then save those changes for future sessions. Window placement and visibility are controlled by Workspace Layouts instead of these preferences.

Preferences are saved for the following features:

When you have your environment set up the way you want (for example, larger font size and table column selection), select Save Preferences from the User menu's Manage Preferences submenu.

To restore to the default environment settings, select Restore Preferences from the User menu's Manage Preferences submenu, which will open a dialog box with a list of user preference categories that may be restored:

Select the categories that you want to restore and click OK. The restored environment settings will take effect when you next log in.

If you have Administration permissions (having access to the Configuration Assistant), you can use the Restore Site‑wide Preferences option in the Manage Preferences submenu to restore preferences for all users of the user type that you logged in as (for example, Full Operations).

You can save and reload the layout of NMS tools as a Workspace Layout. Each Workspace Layout stores the size and position of your open windows and frames (see Creating Window Frames for information on Frames).

You can save multiple workspace layouts. This is useful when logging in at desks with different screen configurations. When you log in to Web Workspace, you have the option of choosing a workspace layout to load.

The tools visible on startup, and the tool placement are controlled by this feature (not as part of preferences), to allow different settings for different display configurations.

The Manage Workspace Layouts window allows you to create and manage your workspace layouts.

The Layout Name pane lists any workspace layouts associated with your user name.

The following procedures describe how to manage workspace layouts.

You have the ability to modify a layout by changing your working environment and then updating the previously created layout with the new configuration.

Conditional formatting can be applied to every data grid in NMS, making it a powerful way of configuring the system to draw your attention to important changes of state in the system.

NMS supports Global and Personal Conditional Formatting.

The order of global and personal formatting rules are applied is defined in Conditional Formatting Precedence Rules.

To apply conditional formatting to a table, right-click any column heading, and then select either Edit Global Conditional Formatting or Edit Personal Conditional Formatting.

Adding a conditional formatting rule requires you to add a rule and then configure the formatting for the rule. These tasks are accomplished using the Conditional Formatting Dialog and the Edit Rule Dialog.

The Conditional Formatting dialog box allows you to add and manage the conditional formatting rules associated with a table:

The fields and buttons are described below:

Note that the position of the rule in the list determines its precedence. See Understanding Conditional Formatting Precedence Rules for details.

The Edit Rule dialog box allows you to configure a conditional formatting rule. Configuring a conditional formatting rule is a 3-step process:

Each of the fields and buttons in the Edit Rule Dialog is described below:

The Conditions tab allows you to define the filter criteria to be met for the formatting rule to be applied. See Creating and Editing Filters Using the Edit Filter Dialog Box for more information on filters.

The Formatting tab allows you to specify the type of formatting to be displayed if the conditions are met.

The order that formatting rules are displayed in the List of Rules determines which formatting takes precedence.

If only global conditional formatting is used on your system, then cell formatting takes precedence over row formatting:

 

If both Global and Personal conditional formatting are used on your system, then the order of precedence is organized like this:

There is a lot of flexibility in how you apply conditional formatting. The following topics provide a selection of common conditional formatting tasks. It is not an exhaustive list, but designed to get you started with conditional formatting.

This procedure summarizes the process of adding a global formatting rule to a table.

It is possible to apply a formatting rule to more than one cell. To do this:

You can apply formatting to a cell or row where multiple conditions need to be matched. For example, you can highlight outage events in a New state where the number of customers off supply is more than 50 customers.

To do this, you need to create a rule, then in the Edit Rule dialog box, simply add two conditions:

Applying Personal conditional formatting allows users, such as Administrators, to overlay conditional formatting on top of the globally applied formatting. This might be done to check how a new formatting rule looks before applying it as a Global formatting rule or by an individual to highlight things important to their role or current activities.

To create a personal conditional formatting rule:

If you have applied some personal conditional formatting to a table to test what it looks like, and you permissions to do so, you can promote the personal formatting to be a global rule.

To do this: