Do you mean that you don't want to have to turn off automatic layout
(View..)
and arrange the things manually because there are like 50 of them?
Here's an idea: Select them all, Edit... Hide Objects...From this Submap.
Then unhide them. They all show up in the New Object Holding Area.
Grab a group, and group-move them up the screen, all in a nice row.
Repeat a couple of times. They will probably be in the order in which
they were created.
Here's another idea: define a smartset of them (isLocation is true and
Selection Name is whatever). View them in that Smartset, which will be
row-column, and sortable as well.
It is a case of having your cake and eating it too, I think. If you want
to
create the submaps manually, or using the APIs and your own code, you
can specify the layout. If you want the automation provided by Netview,
you also get its layout algorithm.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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How can I change the layout of submaps that are being created on initial
discovery? I have created a location.conf file that creates several
containers (Locations - State) on the IP Internet Map (this is their parent
map). Each of these top level containers have additional containers
(Locations-Sites) under them. I know once a submap is created I cannot
change its layout so this creates my problem. I would like for the State
level submaps to use the Row/Column algorithm (there is no connectors
between them) instead of what appears to a Ring or Point to Point (a big
circle). I am running NV 7.1 on AIX.
Thanks,
Don
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