__FORCETOC__{{TOC right}}[[File:ViewManager.png|thumb|left|200px|alt=A screenshot of the View Summary Manager window, displaying the all available Victim viewsSummary templates.|View Summary Manager Window]]As discussed elsewhere, a [[Current View Window]] contains ''elements'' (tabs, tables, and fields) displaying item's most current and relevant data. The design and layout of this window depends on its template, or ''view'', which can either be the system's default view or a user-created "custom view". This page discusses how you can use IMSMA's built-in View Manager tool to publish your own custom views tailored to your programme's needs.
The View Manager window is your starting point for creating and managing views. It allows If you to see publish a complete list of views created for each IMSMA item, along with each view's nameSummary Template, it becomes the [[HowTo:Publish and Archive Views#View Status | statusSummary Window]]active template for that item. For example, and revision date. It also allows if you to [[HowTo:Publish and Archive Views#Publishing publish a View | publish]] views you want to displayVictim Summary Template, it replaces the previous[[HowTo:Publish and Archive Views#Deleting a View Victim Summary Window | deleteVictim Summary Window]] views that displays when you donselect any Victim. Note that the previously-published Summary Template is regressed to the status ''archived''t need, and access is still accessible from the View Designer interface to [[HowTo:Publish and Archive Views#Customising a View | customise]] custom viewsSummary Manager window.
===View Status=Publishing a Summary template==__NOEDITSECTION__
# From the [[IMSMA Navigation Window]], click ''published'Customisation > Summary Manager' is ''.# Select an item from the status '''Object''' menu to display its complete list of Summary Templates.# Select a Summary Template from the view you see when you display an item's list with a status of either ''draft'' or ''archived''.# Click the [[Current View WindowImage:PublishViewIcon.png | 20px | Publish]]. Only one view can be published at a time for each item type. Published view cannot be deletedbutton.
==Summary template status==__NOEDITSECTION__''archiveddraft'' is the status given to a summary template that has been saved, but never published view after . Once it has been unpublished. Archived views are still accessible from published for the View Manager and first time, a summary template can be published again laterno longer have a draft status. Archived views Draft summary templates can be deleted.
''draftpublished'' is the status given of the active summary template which is used to a custom view that has been saved, but never publisheddisplay an item's [[Summary Window]]. Once it has been Only one summary template can be published at a time for the first time, a view can no longer have a draft statuseach item type. Draft views can Published summary templates cannot be deleted.
==Opening ''archived'' is the View status given to a previously published summary template when another summary template is published. Archived Summary templates are still accessible from the Summary Manager Window==and can be published again later. Archived summary templates can be deleted.
# From the IMSMA Navigation window, click '''Customisation > View Manager'''.# Select an item from the '''Object''' menu to display its complete list of views. {{NavBox HowTo Current Views}}
===Customising a View===----#Select an item from the '''Object''' menu.#Select one of the item's existing views from the list.#Click the [[ImageCategory:EditIcon.png | 20px | EditNAA]] button to open the [[HowTo:Customise Views | View Designer]] window. ===Publishing a View===----If you publish a view, it replaces the [[Current View Window]] for all items of a given type. For example, if you publish a custom Victim view, it replaces the default [[Victim View Window]] that displays when you select any Victim. But it does not display when you select an item of a different type, such as an MRE or Accident. Note that the previously-published view is regressed to a status of ''archived'', and is still accessible from the View Manager window. #Select an item from the '''Object''' menu.#Select a view from the item's list with a [[Using the View Manager Tool in IMSMANG#View Status | status]] of either ''draft'' or ''archived''.#Click the [[Image:PublishViewIcon.png | 20px | Publish]] button. ===Deleting a View===----You can permanently delete a view from an item's View Manager list, provided that it isn't the ''published'' view. #Select an item from the '''Object''' menu.#Select a view from the item's list with a [[Using the View Manager Tool in IMSMANG#View Status | status]] of either ''draft'' or ''archived''.#Click the [[Image:Remove.png | 20px | Delete]] button.
