Finding your way around Views

Learn about the main features and controls of a Quality Clouds view.

New to Views?

Use this interface map and the numbered sections below to familiarize yourself with the main View tools and controls.

 Platform and instance navigation

This is where you can access all your SaaS platforms and instances connected to Quality Clouds. 

Click an instance to open its information. 

Click  to access help. 

If you're an admin, you can also click  to go to Admin portal. 

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 Instance information

This is where you can see all your instance and org information, including name, ID, URL, edition, and type of environment.

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 View selection

Here you can switch between data views and dashboards. See Views by SaaS platform for the full list. 

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 Check your user profile, change your password and logout

This is where you see your Quality Clouds account details. Use it to change your password and logout.

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 Get the gist via compacted widgets

Compacted widgets appear on most of the views and highlight the most important facets of your data. 

They are usually composed of the following:

• main metric
• previous scan information
• baseline information
• trend (over time)

You can find out more by hovering over the  help icon.

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 View tabs

Some views have information displayed over several tabs.

Click on each tab to display it.

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Select scan date, set the time period and print a PDF

Select a scan date or date range to display information for the period of your interest.

From here you can also print a PDF of the current view. 

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 Filter data

This is where you can filter the information displayed below on different view types (graphs, trends and grids). 

Once selected, the filters are maintained when switching to different view type. 

One or more of the following filters are available, depending on the view:

• Severity - High, Medium, Low, Warning
• Impact Area - Manageability, Performance, Scalability, Security
• Issue Type - this is a type-ahead filter that let's you choose one, many or all different issue types

• Application - lists all the applications available on your platform
• Developer - lists all the developers working on the platform
• Show written off - Yes/No
• CE Type - lists all the configuration elements (CE) depending on the platform
• Package Type - Developed, Downloaded
• All CE Types vs Only Customization

Select the Clear filters to clear all filters. 

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 Change data display 

This is where you can switch between various info display options.

Depending on the view, you can see:

• graphs
• trends
• grids

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 Interact with the graphs

The main portion of most content tabs displays a graphical view of your data. Here you can see information displayed on pie charts, bar charts, 

The graph controls include:

• select by legend

• hover

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 Interact with the trends

The other type of data display is trend view. Here you can see line charts, or multiple line charts. 

The trend controls include:

• zoom

• download SVG, PNG, CSV

• hover
• select by legend

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 Work with the grids

The other type of data display is gird view. This is the most complex and comprehensive view.

You can do the following actions from the grid:

• sort the grid by columns
• change the amount of items per page
• navigate to next and last page of the results

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Views by SaaS platform

The following dashboards are available for the SaaS platform supported:

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