Creating A Custom View – Sandbox_2025

Creating Custom Views

If your license permits it, you can create custom views from which to work. You have the flexibility to create workspaces that display the functionality that you use most often or use in conjunction with each other; you create views based on the requirements of your tasks. You can name and save these views so that whenever needed, the same configuration of tabs is readily available. You can further customize and change your saved views, as required.

To create a custom view, click the Customize View menu on the Menu Bar.

The following screenshot shows the Clear View group of buttons on the menu:

The following table describes the function of each button in this group:

Button	Function
Empty Grid	Configures Primary Window, Secondary Window, or both with a single panel layout to which drag, drop, and resize tabs. Features reference dots for tab placement and resizing.
Snap Grid Size	Configures the size of the interstices between reference dots in the Empty Grid.
EX300 View	Creates a dedicated EX300 view. This layout is available for selection on the EX300. A selection of components is available on Customize View specifically for this EX300 layout in a dedicated EX300 section. New layouts will be synchronized whenever the EX300 restarts. Any components added on an EX300 layout will not display tabs above the components.
Empty Four	Configures Primary Window, Secondary Window, or both with four panels to which you drag and drop tabs.
Empty Six	Configures Primary Window, Secondary Window, or both with six panels to which you drag and drop tabs.
Save View	Save custom view.
Save View As	Name saved custom view.
Delete View	Delete custom view.
Revert View	Go back to last saved custom view.

Creating a Custom Workspace

If you want to create a workspace with custom-sized and placed tabs:

Click Empty Grid.

To resize the reference dots, click Snap Grid Size and select a pixel size from the drop-down menu.

From the Customize View menu ribbon, drag and drop tabs anywhere on the workspace. Once dropped, the tab's associated GUI element displays.

To move a GUI element's position in the workspace, left-click and hold the top-left corner, then drag it to a new position.

To resize the GUI element, left-click and hold the bottom-right corner of the GUI element, then drag it in or out diagonally.

To delete a GUI element, click the x icon in its name tab.

You can add, resize and rearrange as many tabs as will fit onto your monitor setup (single or dual screen).

Creating a Specific EX300 View

Click EX300 View to create a specific view that is available for selection on the EX300. A selection of components is available specifically for this EX300 layout in a dedicated EX300 section.

New layouts will be synchronized whenever the EX300 restarts. Any components added on an EX300 layout will not display tabs above the components.

Creating a Four-Panel View

If you want to create a view with four panels on your screen, click the Empty Four button. The Select Screen to Clear dialog appears.

The following table describes what happens with each button selection:

Button	Function
Clear Both Screens	Both the Primary Window and the Secondary Window become populated with four empty panels.
Clear Primary Only	The Primary Window becomes populated with four empty panels. The Secondary Window does not change.
Clear Secondary Only	The Secondary Window becomes populated with four empty panels. The Primary Window does not change.

This following is a screenshot of the Primary Window, populated with four empty panels:

The empty four panels represent the blank canvas on which to create your workspace. You can drag and drop multiple tabs from the Customize View menu ribbon to each panel.

To add a tab to a panel:

Click the button for the tab that you want to add and drag and drop it to a panel on your view. To bring a tab to the forefront of a panel, click its header.

Note: If you want to see live or recorded video on this screen, drag and drop the Video Playback button to one of the panels.

This following is a screenshot of the custom view populated with (clockwise from upper left) the Cameras tab, the Map Display tab, the Incident Manager tab, and the Video tab:

Note: By default, a new custom view is named New Design, but you can rename and save it as anything you like, as explained in the following section.

You can resize panels, maximize, move, and close tabs just as you can in the default views.

To save your view:

If you move to another view, the Unsaved Changes for View dialog appears.

If you want to save the view, click Yes. The Enter Layout Name dialog appears.

Enter a name for the view and click OK. The Layout Button Icon dialog appears.

If you want to associate an icon with the name of this view, click OK. The Open dialog appears.

To preview an icon in the dialog, single-click it in the list. Double-click an icon to select it and click the Open button. The Save Completed dialog appears.

Click OK.

Now when you open the Views menu, a button for your new view appears either in the User Created group (without icons) or in the User Created group (with icons).

Most of the Customize View menu is visible in the screenshot shown, but there are more options to the right. To see them, use the scroll arrows on the upper right area of the menu, as shown in the following screenshot, to move to the right:

You can also drag the menu to the left with your mouse, revealing more of the menu to the right.

Creating a Six-Panel View

If you want to create a workspace with six panels, click the Empty Six button in the Clear View group of the Customize View menu. The following screenshot shows the Primary Window populated with six empty panels:

Follow the same instructions for creating a custom four-panel view. You have the same flexibility of adding and moving tabs and resizing panels that you do with a four-panel view. Name and save your view, as required.

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