Working in Object Lists

 

In a content window you can view, list, sort, and filter the lists of objects and related objects. If you right-click an item in the Folders and Items window you can perform operations, for example:

To select objects in a list:

Do any of the following:

or click anywhere in the content window and type Ctrl+A.

To sort a list based on the contents of a column:

  1. Click the header of the column you want to sort by.

  2. To reverse the sort order, click the column header again.

To save the contents of a list:

  1. Click the Save button.

  2. In the Save As dialog box, type a filename.

  3. Select a format:

  4. Click the Save button.

To switch an item list between all revisions and latest only:

Click the Expand Revisions button.

To resize list columns:

Do one of the following:

The desktop client retains the column sizes you have set when you next log in.

To filter the objects in a window:

  1. Click the Filter icon at the top right of the pane/window. This displays the Find dialog box.

  2. Fill in the fields in the Find dialog box as described in Creating and Using Object Filters.

  3. Click the Apply button. The list in the window will be replaced by the filtered list.

To filter the objects in a window using a predefined filter:

Click the list arrow to the right of the Filter icon in the toolbar at the top of the pane/window and select the name of the filter from the list.

To filter the objects in an item window for a stream to show only items revisions created in the stream:

Click the list arrow to the right of the Filter icon in the toolbar at the top of the pane/window and select <revisions-created-in-stream>.

To filter the objects in a window to only show those matching a string:

  1. Click the list arrow at the top right of the toolbar in the pane/window. Select the name of the column to filter from the list. (Some columns cannot be filtered on in this way.)

  2. NOTE  The left-most column of the grid is, by default, the one selected for the filter.

  3. Type the text to be used for filtering. Note that this is not case-sensitive, and leading and trailing spaces are removed from the string when filtering. All column values, including numeric ones, are treated as strings for the purpose of filtering.

  4. After a short pause, the grid display will be filtered so that only rows containing that string in the specified column are displayed. The heading for the filtered column will contain an icon: filtered_column_icon.gifto indicate that the filter operating on that column, and the title of the grid display will include the text "[Filtered]".

    Filtered.png
  5. To remove the filtering of the grid view, delete the value in the text field.

To search for objects in a list by typing initial characters:

Click the field in the list that you want to search and type the initial character(s). This will position the cursor in the first field in the list that begins with the character(s).

To switch the display of related object windows to tabbed panes:

To switch the display of related object windows to stacked panes:

To display all the related object windows on the right as stacked panes, click the list button to the right of the icon: splitter_view_select.gif and select Stack all views.