Configure View Selection

You can configure the view selection in Dashboard from Settings > Role > General.

Default Views

In Dashboard, when an item is selected (for example, in the Browse tree view), a tab is opened to display information about that item.

The Default Views dialog enables you to specify a View that is used by default when the tab opens. You can specify the initial View based on the Type of the item being selected.

In the screenshot below, the second setting specifies that if an item of type 3D MODEL is selected, then the tab opens in Document View. If the item type is not present in the Settings, but its parent type is present, then the setting for the parent type is used.

Using this example, imagine that the 3D MODEL row has been removed. If an item of type 3D MODEL is subsequently selected, then the Summary View is displayed, because DOCUMENT CONTENT is the parent type of 3D MODEL.

Note: Sometimes it is not possible to use the configured View for viewing information about a selected item. For example, the Document View is designed to display a File of an item. If the selected item has no Files, then the Document View is not considered for viewing information for the item, even though the configuration settings say Document View should be used. In such cases, Summary View is displayed.