To create/edit a pane configuration
When you create and save a configuration for a tab pane, the configuration is available and applicable only for this specific tab pane. You can edit only the configurations that you have created.
1. Right-click the tab pane anywhere, including the column headers, and on the context menu that opens, click Load Columns.
A sub-menu opens that displays up to three options: Manually, Compact, and all the available configurations for the pane. The name of the user who created each configuration displayed next to the configuration.
 | Compact displays the data columns in the pane in a more condensed view. To toggle the display, click Compact as needed. |
2. Do one of the following:
Option | Description |
|---|---|
To create an entirely new pane configuration | 1. Click Manually. The Select Columns dialog box opens. By default, when the dialog box first opens for a tab pane, the columns that are currently displayed are selected, and Select/deselect/restore is either selected or completely filled. See 2. Continue to Step 3. |
To create a new pane configuration by editing an existing configuration | 1. Click Manually. The Select Columns dialog box opens. 2. Click Load Configuration. The Load Configuration dialog box opens. The dialog box displays all your private and public configurations as well as all the configurations that other users have made public. 3. Select the configuration that is to be modified. The pane display is dynamically updated according to the loaded configuration 4. Right-click the tab pane anywhere, and on the context menu that opens, click Load Columns > Manually. The Select Columns dialog box opens again. The settings on the dialog box reflect the loaded configuration. 5. Continue to Step 3. |
3. Clear the options for the columns that you are hiding from the pane view, and select the options for the columns that you are displaying in the pane view.
4. Click Apply to update the column display.
5. Click Save Configuration.
The Save Configuration dialog box opens.
6. Enter a name for the configuration.
| | If you are editing a configuration, then you must save it with exactly the same name as the original configuration. |
7. If this configuration is to be available to all other users of this Geneticist Assistant instance (a public configuration), then select Make configuration available to all users; otherwise, to make the configuration available only to you (a private configuration), leave this option blank.
8. Click Save.
The Save Configuration dialog box closes. The Select Columns dialog box remains open.
9. Click OK to close the Select Columns dialog box.