View and Edit Polygons and Polygon Types

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View and Edit Polygons and Polygon Types

Polygons and their Polygon Types can be viewed and edited easily from the Show All button in the Network Map Actions button bar.

 

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Show All - Polygons

 

The Polygons option from the Show All drop down list open up the Polygons popup window with the following grid information.

 

Name

The Polygon's name

Polygon Type

The Polygon Type associated with the Polygon

Network Map

The name of the associated Network Map

Color

The Polygons background color

Site

The Site name associated with the Polygon

Order

The Order name associated with the Polygon

Node

The Node name associated with the Polygon

Comments

User defined additional comments for the Polygon

 

Edit a Polygon

 

From the Polygon popup window modifications can be applied to any Polygon row.

 

Click on the Edit icon (paper and pencil) of the required row

 

Make the changes to the required fields

 

When finished click on the green tick icon at the beginning of the row to save the modifications

 


Changing a Polygon Type field in a Polygon may be required when deleting a Polygon Type. Polygon Types must have no associations to Polygons prior to their deletion.

 

Delete a Polygon

 

Deleting a Polygon  does not delete the IMS inventory objects related to that Polygon.

 

From the Polygon popup window, deletions can be applied to any Polygon row.

 

Click on the Check Box icon of the required row

 

Click the Delete button (red X icon) in the Polygon window ribbon - above the column titles row

 

A green success message will appear in the lower right corner of the GUI

 

Refresh the Network Map to validate the deletion of the Polygon.

 

 

Show All - Polygon Types

 

The Polygon Types option from the Show All drop down list open up the Polygon Types popup window showing all  the polygon Type names.

 

Edit a Polygon Type

 

From the Polygon Type popup window, modifications can be applied to any Polygon Type row.

 

Click on the Edit icon (paper and pencil) of the required row

 

Make the changes to the name field

 

When finished click on the green tick icon at the beginning of the row to save the modifications

 

Delete a Polygon Type

 

From the Polygon Type popup window, deletions can be applied to any Polygon Type row.

 


Polygon Types can be deleted only if any related Polygons have been removed. All associated Polygons will first have to be associated with another Polygon Type first. Refer to the earlier section called Edit a Polygon on how to modify a Polygon's information.

 

Click on the Check Box icon (enable) of the required row

 

Click the Delete button (red X icon) in the Polygon window ribbon - above the column titles row

 

A green success message will appear in the lower right corner of the GUI

 

Refresh the Network Map to validate the deletion of the Polygon.