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Customizing Summary View per user?

I have about 30 different users of Orion and about 20 different Summary views that are essentially the same except for the map that is displayed.

This is obviously very hard to maintain if I want to add a new section to all the pages. I see no easy way to copy one view to another, so they all have to be created and edited manually.

I was wondering if there was some way I could create a filter that would display a particular map based on the user name? It would be a lot easier to add or subtract a name from a query than to create a whole new view.

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DonYonce

snowjay,
That sounds pretty easy.....and a good idea too !
Place the following code in a file called "C:\inetpub\SolarWinds\NetPerfMon\Resources\7-1-NetworkMaps\23-NetworkMap.Resource".
Add this resource to a summary view.

This will create a new resource that will display a map with the same name as the logged in Account.

For example, if you login as Admin, a map called "Admin" will be displayed.
If you login as "CustomerA", a map called "CustomerA" will be displayed.


<!-- Title=Network Map that matches the current AccountID -->
<!-- Level=7 -->
<!--#include Virtual=/NetPerfMon/scripts/Resource.asp -->

<%
	Dim MapName
	Dim NetworkMap
	Dim MapScale

	Title=Resource.Title
	SubTitle=Resource.SubTitle
	HelpPage="NetworkMap"
	EditButton="/NetPerfMon/Resources/Title.Edit.asp?ResourceID=" & Resource.ResourceID & "&ViewID=" & ViewID & "&NetObject=" & NetObject
	DoResourceHeader

	' Set the name of the Map
	MapName = Session("AccountID")

	' You could also add a prefix to the map instead 
	' MapName = "ABC-" & Session("AccountID")

	MapScale = Resource.GetProperty("MapScale")

	Set NetworkMap = Server.CreateObject("OrionNPMWeb.NetworkMap")
	NetworkMap.MapScale = MapScale
	NetworkMap.LoadMap(MapName)

	If NetworkMap.LastError <> "" Then
		' Comment out the following line to hide error messages if the map does not exist
		Response.Write "<font color=Red><b>" & NetworkMap.LastError & "</b></font>"
	Else	
%>
		<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 width="100%">
		<tr align="center">
			<td><%=NetworkMap.HTMLImageMap%></td>
		</tr>
		</table>		
<%	End If	%>

FormerMember

Don...Thanks for the code! This will be helpful to us too. However, Snowjay raises another excellent issue or should I say limitation...there is no way to copy one view to another. This seems easy enough to implement too! We have the need to duplicate Top 10/ Top 25 views but with different filters for several clients but have been reluctant to do it because of the amount of time it would take to build all the views. It is very time consuming to duplicate an existing view. You have to select all the same resources as the existing view one-step-at-a-time, only to implement a filter for one or more resources in the new view. Building a new view needs to incorporate a Copy function!

snowjay

Thanks Don! The code was a real help. I was able to cut down my Custom views from about 15 to 3! I did have one problem though, since I use pass through authentication my user ID's have a \ in them (doman\username) so I was unable to use map names the same as account names. Plus I have several users who need to view the same maps...

So I modified the code just slightly to use a Case statment to pull the correct map for each user. (I also included the way to do it using an If/Else.)

Also is there some code I can use to the Name of the map to show up in the Sub Title of the map section? I used to have them manually coded but now that I'm displaying them dynamically I obviously can't do that.

Thanks for your help!

Here is the modified code:


<!-- Title=Network Map based on the current AccountID -->
<!-- Level=7 -->
<!--#include Virtual=/NetPerfMon/scripts/Resource.asp -->

<%
	Dim MapName
	Dim NetworkMap
	Dim MapScale

	Title=Resource.Title
	SubTitle=Resource.SubTitle
	HelpPage="NetworkMap"
	EditButton="/NetPerfMon/Resources/Title.Edit.asp?ResourceID=" & Resource.ResourceID & "&ViewID=" & ViewID & "&NetObject=" 

& NetObject
	DoResourceHeader

	' Set the name of the Map equal to the AccountID
	' MapName = Session("AccountID")

	' You could also add a prefix to the map instead 
	' MapName = "ABC-" & Session("AccountID")

	' Set the name of the map different than the AccountID
	' using If/Else statements
	' If Session("AccountID") = "account 1" Then
	'	MapName = "Map 1"
	' Else
	'	MapName = "Map 2"
	' End If

	' using Case statements
	Select Case Session("AccountID")

	Case "account1"
		MapName = "Map 1"

	Case "account2", "account3"
		MapName = "Map 2"

	case Else
		MapName = "Map 0"
	end select


	MapScale = Resource.GetProperty("MapScale")

	Set NetworkMap = Server.CreateObject("OrionNPMWeb.NetworkMap")
	NetworkMap.MapScale = MapScale
	NetworkMap.LoadMap(MapName)

	If NetworkMap.LastError <> "" Then
		' Comment out the following line to hide error messages if the map does not exist
		Response.Write "<font color=Red><b>" & NetworkMap.LastError & "</b></font>"
	Else	
%>
		<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 width="100%">
		<tr align="center">
			<td><%=NetworkMap.HTMLImageMap%></td>
		</tr>
		</table>		
<%	End If	%>

jainsworth

I agree that the code is great to have, but I also strongly agree that being able to create a copy of a view or menu bar, or have the ability to do a "save as" would be extremely beneficial.

DonYonce

To set the Map Subtitle to the name of the Map :


<!-- Title=Network Map based on the current AccountID -->
<!-- Level=7 -->
<!--#include Virtual=/NetPerfMon/scripts/Resource.asp -->

<%
	Dim MapName
	Dim NetworkMap
	Dim MapScale

	Title=Resource.Title
	' Commented out this line
	' SubTitle=Resource.SubTitle
	HelpPage="NetworkMap"
	EditButton="/NetPerfMon/Resources/Title.Edit.asp?ResourceID=" & Resource.ResourceID & "&ViewID=" & ViewID & "&NetObject=" 

& NetObject

	' Set the name of the Map equal to the AccountID
	' MapName = Session("AccountID")

	' You could also add a prefix to the map instead 
	' MapName = "ABC-" & Session("AccountID")

	' Set the name of the map different than the AccountID
	' using If/Else statements
	' If Session("AccountID") = "account 1" Then
	'	MapName = "Map 1"
	' Else
	'	MapName = "Map 2"
	' End If

	' using Case statements
	Select Case Session("AccountID")

	Case "account1"
		MapName = "Map 1"

	Case "account2", "account3"
		MapName = "Map 2"

	case Else
		MapName = "Map 0"
	end select

        ' Moved the DoResourceHeader to after the Case statement
        SubTitle = MapName
	DoResourceHeader


	MapScale = Resource.GetProperty("MapScale")

	Set NetworkMap = Server.CreateObject("OrionNPMWeb.NetworkMap")
	NetworkMap.MapScale = MapScale
	NetworkMap.LoadMap(MapName)

	If NetworkMap.LastError <> "" Then
		' Comment out the following line to hide error messages if the map does not exist
		Response.Write "<font color=Red><b>" & NetworkMap.LastError & "</b></font>"
	Else	
%>
		<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 width="100%">
		<tr align="center">
			<td><%=NetworkMap.HTMLImageMap%></td>
		</tr>
		</table>		
<%	End If	%>

snowjay

Thank you Don!