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Lesson 5: View elements in different display modes

You can use several display modes to view, sort, and filter data.
In this lesson, you learn about viewing elements in the tree, table, and relational graph modes.
Note: You can use other display modes to analyze data in different scenarios. These modes are not relevant to the lessons in this tutorial. For more information about these display modes, see the topics about the display options for elements in the help.
  1. Open the All Cars view that you created in the previous lesson by clicking Display > All Cars. The elements are displayed in a tree structure. The attributes for which the access level is set to hide are not displayed.
    Cars in a tree

    The tree is a common display mode. When you open a module, the elements in that module are displayed in a tree.

  2. On the toolbar, click the Table icon Table mode icon to view the elements in table mode.

    Table mode provides an overview of all the elements and the visible attributes. You can sort elements according to an attribute. To sort the elements alphabetically according to type, click Type.

    Elements sorted in the table view

  3. Click the Relational graph icon Relational graph icon to view the elements in a relational graph. In this mode, you can view the relationships between the elements in a structured format.

    To view the cars that are sorted according to the Type attribute:

    1. From the Browse Attribute list, select Type.
    2. From the Layout list, select Vertical Tree.
    3. To specify the visibility of the elements in the graph, select the required text depth and node width.
    Elements sorted in a relational graph

Filtering data

You can use filtering to find a subset of the elements and attributes in a view. A filtered view displays only the elements that meet the rules that you specify for the attributes in the Filter setup window.
The view displays all the cars that you added to the module. Define a filter rule to view only the cars that cost more than 50,000:
  1. On the toolbar, click the Table icon Table mode to view the elements in a table format.
  2. To specify a filter rule, click the Filter icon Filter on the toolbar.
  3. In the filter setup window, type Above 50K as the name for the filter.
  4. From the Price list, select is more than and type 50,000 as the value.
  5. Click OK. In the Display view, when you select Above 50K from the Filter list, the cars that cost more than 50,000 are shown.
    Filtered cars

Lesson checkpoint

In this lesson, you learned how to view elements in different display modes and how to filter data in a view.
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