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How to: Customize a Viewer Using the Workpad UI

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This topic shows common ways to customize viewers within the Microsoft code name “Quadrant” UI.

This is the first topic in the "Quadrant" Advanced Customization Tutorial.

Note

This tutorial assumes that you have already completed the How to: Create a Database from "M" in "Quadrant" tutorial, which creates the PetShop database in an instance of SQL Server by using Microsoft code name “M”.

To customize viewers in "Quadrant" by using the UI

  1. On the View menu, click Explorer, and then click MSPetShop4. The database opens in a new workpad.

  2. Expand the Database icon.

  3. Double-click the dbo2 icon in the explorer. A new workpad named dbo2 appears in the workspace, showing all the tables in the MSPetShop4 database.

  4. Double-click the Product icon in the dbo2 workpad. This opens a new workpad that displays the Product table from the database. By default, the workpad opens by using a Table viewer.

  5. Right-click a column header in the table. In the context menu that pops up, click Column Settings. In the expanded submenu, click Image to uncheck it. Notice that the Image column in the table immediately disappears.

  6. On the Workpad menu, click Save View As…. In the dialog box, enter PetShop Products for the viewer name. To make this view the default for the Product table, check Use as default for Product collection box. Click Save to save the view.

  7. In the upper-right corner of the workpad, click the viewer switch icon (the small white triangle). Notice that PetShop Products (Default) is included in the list of available views.

  8. In the upper-right corner of the workpad, click x to close the workpad.

  9. Double-click the Product icon in the dbo2 workpad. Notice that it opens a workpad in a table view without the Image column.

In this topic, you have learned how to create a customized view within the “Quadrant” UI.

The next topic in this series is How to: Customize a Viewer Using a Configuration Template.

See Also

Other Resources

"Quadrant" Pet Shop Tutorial
"Quadrant" Tutorials
"Quadrant" Advanced Customization Tutorial
Customizing the "Quadrant" Data Viewing Experience