Creating, Exporting and Importing Custom Views 

Use

You can use any predefined view as a template for your custom view. If you want to create a custom view that displays a particular log or trace, or log or trace type, use the Expert predefined view as a template. If you want to display archives of a particular log or trace, use the Archive predefined view as a template. If you want to create a custom view that displays logs and traces from a J2EE Engine that is not running by connecting to a Standalone Log Viewer server, use the Standalone Log Viewer predefined view as a template.  

You can also export the settings of a custom view (the filters that are set and the columns that are selected during column customization) to an XML file to a directory of your choice. You can then send the XML file to another user who can import it and save it as his or her own custom view.

Bear in mind that some of the steps in the procedure are optional. You can set as many filters by data source and filters by content as you want in your custom view. In addition, for list formatted logs and traces you can customize the columns to be displayed in your custom view.

Procedure

Creating Custom Views

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       1.      From the Get dropdown box, select Predefined View and then, from the adjacent dropdown box, select a view you want to use as a template for your custom view.

From the Get dropdown box, you can select Custom View and then, from the adjacent dropdown box, you can select <Create New View (SAP Logs)> to use SAP Logs view as a template for your custom view.

       2.      Choose Open Filter.

       3.      Set the filter criteria. Optional filter criteria are:

○     Filter by data source

○     Filter by content

○     Filter by log or trace name and type

○     Filter by archive for a log or trace

○     Specify remote connection parameters

For more information about the particular filter criteria you can set in each predefined view, see Predefined View.

       4.      Customize the columns to be displayed in your custom view. For more information, see Customizing Columns for Logs and Traces.

       5.      Choose Save View As, enter a name for the custom view, and then choose OK.

Exporting Custom Views

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       1.      From the Get dropdown box, select Custom View and then, from the adjacent dropdown box, select the view you want to export.

       2.      Choose  Option menu of tray and in the context menu, choose Export View.

       3.      In the Export/Import View dialog box, select Export View and save the file to a directory of your choice.

Importing Custom Views

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       1.      From the Get dropdown box, select Predefined View or Custom View and then, from the adjacent dropdown box, select any view.

       2.      Choose  Option menu of tray and in the context menu, choose Import View.

       3.      In the Export/Import View dialog box, browse to the XML file you want to import.

All logs and traces on all selected systems that meet the filter criteria are displayed.

       4.      To save the view you have imported as your own custom view, choose Open Filter and then choose Save View As.