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‘Show all open views’

Click to open an overview of all open views (including Favourites)

The overview for All open views supports the following operations:

A view can be closed by clicking on the icon.
Click on Close all (top right) to close all open views.

A view can be made visible by clicking on it in a view slot.
A view can be assigned to a specific view slot using drag & drop.

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The Open views section is located within the Top bar to the right of the Favourites. The icons of open views that are not Favourites appear here.

►NOTE◄ The sections for Favourites and Open views are not adjacent to each other in the Top bar by chance. They also work closely together functionally and are also referred to in combination as the ‘Task bar’.

Use open views

Open view functions

Function	Trigger	Effect
Display	Click	A previously invisible view for the menu item is moved to the foreground of a view slot.
Display	Drag & Drop	An open view for the menu item is displayed in the foreground of the view slot selected when dropping.
Open as new view*	Ctrl + click	A new instance for the menu item is opened and displayed in the foreground of an existing view slot.
Open as new view*	Ctrl + Drag & Drop	A new instance for the menu item is opened and displayed in the foreground of the selected view slot.
Open external*	Shift + click	The menu item is displayed in a new browser window in the context of the existing session.
Copy link to clipboard*	Only context menu	The link created for ‘Open external’ is copied to the clipboard of the operating system.
Add to favourites*	Drag & Drop	The menu item is moved from the Open views section to the Favourites section.
Close*	Only context menu	All open views for the menu item are closed.

*) Available as an entry in the context menu for the associated icon

Display for opened views

	A green dot appears below the icon for a menu item, if an associated view is already open and this is visible in the foreground of a view slot.	Clicking on the icon has no effect in this case.
	A grey dot appears below the icon for a menu item, if an associated view is already open but does not currently appear in a view slot.	Clicking on the icon brings the view to the foreground of a view slot.
	Two green dots appear below the icon for a menu item, if two associated views are open and these are visible at the same time (in two view slots).	Clicking on the icon has no effect in this case.
	If a green dot and a grey dot appear below the icon for a menu item, two associated views are open, of which exactly one is currently visible in a view slot.	Clicking on the icon brings the previously invisible view to the foreground. If both views are assigned to the same view slot, clicking on the icon toggles between the two views.
If more than two views are open for a menu item, three or view dots appear whose colour (grey/green) indicates whether the relevant views are currently visible in a view slot.
	Four green dots are displayed below the icon for a menu item, if at least four associated views are open and four of them each occupy a view slot.	In this case, clicking on the icon has no effect if exactly four views are open. If more than four views are open, a previously invisible view appears in a view slot each time the icon is clicked.
The associated views for a menu item also appear as a preview image in a tooltip when the mouse cursor is moved over the icon. In the screenshot on the right, there are two associated views, one of which is visible in a view slot (→ green dot in the header), the other is not. This preview also supports the following operations: A view can be closed by clicking on the icon. A view can be made visible by clicking on it in a view slot. A view can be assigned to a specific view slot using drag & drop. ►NOTE◄ The preview can display more than four views for the same favourite. However, it is worth asking whether opening numerous views for the same favourite at the same time is really ‘good practice’ for the respective use case.

►IMPORTANT◄ How are open views grouped in the task bar?

Even if the display for Open views has a lot in common with the display for Favourites, the grouping logic for open views differs considerably in both sections:

For Favourites, the view or menu node name is decisive for the grouping.
For Open views, however, the grouping only takes into account the assigned icon.
- If non-favoured views with the same icon are opened at the same time, they appear in the Open views section regardless of their ‘relationship’ within the same group.
- The grouping takes into account the complete icon path (including any attached classes, see Working with image resources (Icons)), so that, for example, colouring an icon already creates its own group:
  (in the screenshot: fa://fat-plane for the ‘Aircraft’ view vs. fa://fat-plane.lb-success for the two ‘Flight plan’ views)

Bubbles for open Custom overviews

If Custom overviews can be created for an entity type, their configuration can include the display of a so-called ‘bubble’.

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A ‘bubble’ indicates the number of entities relevant for the output in the overview (or a subset defined in the configuration).
The ‘bubble’ appears in the context of the icon for Custom overviews, which are displayed in the Open views section.

In the example on the left, the ‘bubble’ should indicate the number of Users listed in the context of the overview that the User of session has created themselves.