Creating a Grid

to create a new grid in the main navigation, click grids click + add grid the create new grid window is displayed in the info section, in the name field, enter a name for the grid if you would like to make the grid available to all users, click the public checkbox only admin users can make grids available to the "public" if the public checkbox isn't selected then the grid is only available for the user who created it even when grids are made public, users who aren't authorized to access particular objects (based on tags) won't be able to view those objects in the grids in the filter section, in the type field, select the type of grid options are status – shows a tile with relevant data for each object or thumbnails (for sources and target grids only) – shows a thumbnail of the current content of the source or target for a list of supported formats for showing thumbnails, see supported formats for thumbnail view docid\ lh8rqum6dttflejgvlhq2 in the object types section, click on the checkbox next to each type of object that you would like to include in the grid (e g feeders, clusters etc ) for thumbnail grids, the object type selection is not shown since the only relevant type is sources if you would like to filter the objects shown in the grid by tags, click on the only show objects… field and select one or more tags from the drop down list by default the match any radio button is selected, to include all objects that have any of the above access tags if you would like to include only objects that have all of the above listed tags, then select the match all radio button if you would like to exclude objects with a particular tag/s, click on the do not show objects… field and select one or more tags from the drop down list if you would like to filter the objects shown in the grid by name in the name filter (include) field, enter the characters that must be part of the name in order for an object to be included in the name filter (exclude) field, enter the characters that must not be part of the name in order for an object to be included if you would like to filter the objects shown in the grid by status , in the status field, click on the ' x ' next to a status to remove it from the grid the default setting is to include all statuses once a status has been removed, it can be re included by selecting it from the dropdown list in the muted objects section, select the radio button for the type of objects that you would like to include in the grid options are show all objects (default), do not show muted objects or only show muted objects in the acknowledged objects section (i e error states that have been marked as acknowledged), select the radio button for the type of objects that you would like to include in the grid options are show all objects (default), do not show acknowledged objects or only show acknowledged objects in the display section under sort by , select the way in which the objects are sorted options are status (default) or name in the fields section (for status type grids), select the checkbox next to each of the data elements that you would like to include in the display options are status, bitrate, tr101, latency, ip, cpu, ram, bandwidth and version each selected data element is shown only for objects for which it is relevant, i e bitrate and tr101 status are shown for sources while ip and cpu are shown for resources in the rows field, set the number of rows shown in the grid (default auto ) in the columns field, set the number of columns shown in the grid (default auto ) if you would like to automatically cycle through the pages, under cycle pages automatically , select the enable checkbox and enter the number of seconds of the interval when this feature is selected, enter the adjust the interval in seconds for the cycling if thumbnails was selected, under thumbnail refresh , adjust the thumbnail refresh time by sliding the indicator on the bar to display the desired number of seconds options are 2 20 seconds (default 8 seconds) in the settings section, select the checkbox next to each of the settings that you would like to apply to the grid options are fit screen fits the grid to the full screen show alerts displays the alerts on the tiles show audio displays audio levels on the tiles show timestamp displays a timestamp on the tile show name on bottom displays the name of the object at the bottom click save