Overview

The Physical Views node shows the physical views that exist in your system project. It lets you create and manage them.

Physical Views Node Description

The following figure shows an example of the Physical Views node and its content.

Item

Description

1

Physical Views root node.

NOTE: Devices assigned to a physical view are not shown in this view. To view them, open the physical view.

2

Default physical view.

3

User-generated physical view folder.

NOTE: You can change the order in which folders are displayed by dragging a folder to its new position within the same folder or move it to a different folder.

4

User-generated physical view.

You can change the order in which physical views are displayed by dragging a view to its new position.

Physical Views Node and Folder Actions

The table describes the commands of the context menu of the Physical Views node and folders therein.

Command

Description

New Folder

Creates a folder.

New Physical View

Creates a new physical view and opens it.

Physical View Actions

The table describes the commands of the context menu of physical views.

Command

Description

Open

Opens the physical view.

You can select several physical views and open them at once.

Delete

Deletes the physical view after you confirm the command.

NOTE: Deleting a physical view does not delete the devices that appear in it from the system project. Physical links are deleted however.