Cabinets and Racks Context Menu

This page describes the cabinets and racks context menu.

Right click on a cabinet or outside the cabinet to open the respective context menus.

You can enter the cabinet view mode by double clicking on the cabinet component.

Inside Cabinet/ Rack Context Menu

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Right clicking on the cabinet or rack will bring up this context menu. From this context menu, you can perform the following actions:

Place component in rack: Place a component from the local catalog inside the cabinet or rack.

Create network map:

View connections: Display summary of all line and patch connections of components in the cabinet or rack.

Reports: Generate a report of components in room, cable connections, network path and more.

Search contained: Search for all components or cables or network paths in the cabinet or rack.

Show backside: Show the rear view of the cabinet or rack and of all components contained within.

Apply naming rule: Apply a naming rule to the cabinet or rack.

Relocate: Relocate or move the cabinet or rack.

Copy: Make a duplicate copy of the cabinet or rack.

Remove: Delete the Cabinet or rack and all corresponding cable connections.

Print: Print a cabinet or rack view report.

Edit definition: Edit the cabinet or rack definition properties.

Properties: Edit cabinet or rack properties.

Design mode: Enter design mode to make changes to cabinet or rack and contained components.

History: Display records of all changes made to the cabinet or rack.

Outside Cabinet/ Rack Context Menu

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Right click outside the cabinet or rack area to open this context menu. This context menu allows you to perform the following actions:

Add cabinet to room: Add an unoccupied cabinet to the current room.

Add components to room: Place components, without any connections, to the room.

View legends: Turn visibility of legends for the cabinet or rack and its components, such as weight, power consumption, network connections, IP address, etc.

View tags: View tags at port and all inherited tags from connections.

Behavior: Change zoom options in cabinet or rack view.

Print: Print cabinet view.

Reports: Generate a report of components in room, cable connections, network path and more.

Design mode: Enter design mode to make changes to cabinet or rack and contained components.

Show port numbers: Enable or disable visibility of port numbers on ports.

Display port connections: Enable or disable visibility of next component connection information.

Show component names: Enable or disable visibility of component name on the component.

Show hints at ports: Enable or disable visibility of port information and network path when hovering over ports.

Show all patch connections: Enable or disable visibility of patch cable connections.

Show line connections: Enable or disable visibility of line cable connections.

Show patch across layers: Enable or disable visibility of patch cable connections between different cabinets and racks.

Cabinets and Racks