Cabinets and Racks Context Menu

Lots of funcionalities and information are available from the cabinet and rack context menus.

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

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: Create a network map centered around the cabinet or rack.
View connections: Display a 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, all contained components and all corresponding cable connections.
Print: Print a cabinet or rack view report.
Edit definition: Edit the cabinet or rack definition properties.
Properties: Edit the cabinet or rack properties. Also view attached documents and the history.
Design mode: Enter design mode to make changes to cabinet or rack and contained components.

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, directly into 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 work orders: Enable or disable visibility of work order annotations.
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.