Environment / Group – Connectivity Type Customization

Introduction

Connectivity Types are selected on the Connectivity tab when adding or editing an Environment Group.

Pre-requisite

To be able to customize the Environment / Group – Connectivity Type, you must have ‘Access Customizations’ User Permission
Settings  > Customization > Environments > Environment / Group – Connectivity Type

Add/Edit a Connectivity Type

To add a Connectivity Type:

  1. Navigate to Customization’ page and double click Environments.
  2. Click Environment / Group – Connectivity Type.
  3. To add a new field, click . The system adds a line on the grid for the new field. To edit an existing custom field, search and click on the custom field from the grid and then click 
  4. Enter the new Connectivity Type into the Value field.
  5. Double click the field in the Line Color column to make the drop-down menu appear.
  6. Select a color from the drop-down menu or enter a Hex value.
  7. Click  .

Your changes will be saved and a confirmation message will display.

Sort Connectivity Types

Sort Manually

Sorting Connectivity Types manually changes their order in the drop-down menus

To sort manually:

  1. On the ‘Customization’ page, navigate to Environments > Environment / Group – Connectivity Type. 
  2. Hover your mouse cursor over the sort column of the Value that you want to sort.  appears.
  3. Drag and drop the Value as you require.
  4. Click .

Your changes will be saved and a confirmation message will display.

Sort by Column Header

Sorting by column header only changes their order on the ‘Customization’ page.

To sort alphabetically on the ‘Customization’ page by column header, click on the column header. ↑ or ↓ displays indicating the ascending or descending column sort.

Delete/Replace

Deleting a Connectivity Type will not delete it from the Environment Group records. But it will no longer be available when adding or editing an environment group.

While deleting, you can either select another item that will replace the item to be deleted or simply delete the item from the list. Replacing a Connectivity Type will replace it in existing Change records.

To delete or replace a Connectivity Type:

  1. Navigate to the ‘Customization’ page and double click Environments.
  2. Click Environment / Group – Connectivity Type.
  3. Select the status that you want to delete or replace. 
  4. Click .
  5. The ‘Replace with existing value’ dialog displays. 
    • To replace: select the item that will replace the item to be deleted from Replace with. Then click .
    • To simply delete the item, click .

The item is now deleted and the page navigates back to the ‘Customization’ page

More Information

Location of Connectivity Types

To locate the Connectivity Type field:

  1. Navigate to Environment > Groups.
  2. Click to select an Environment.
  3. The Connectivity Type field is located in the Environment Map Connectivity panel under the Connectivity tab.

Connectivity Type affects the name and color of the connector arrows in the Environment Map.

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