Chapter 3 The Tariscope program
3.5 Working with views
3.5.1 Creating and saving a view for calls
If you have already started the process of collecting data about the calls and you want to analyze the data, create a new view for calls.
To do this, in the program menu, select Data → New data view, or click on the New view icon on the toolbar. The Filter window appears as shown in Figure 3.5.1.
Figure 3.5.1
This window allows you to set the filter conditions before opening the view. The window allows you to specify complex filter conditions on a group of parameters, such as: a subscriber name, name of subscriber group, telephone system, subscriber phone number, call destination, call type, time period, and others.
In this section, we will not consider filtering options in detail. They will be considered in the following sections.
At the same time, we note that a telephone system and time period are frequently selected when creating a new view.
At first, if you wish to create a view for calls, keep the Calls item in the View type list.
To select a telephone system, click on the ‘…’ button located on the right from the Node/Equipment box. The Equipment selection window appears where all telecommunications nodes and all telephone systems are displayed. Select the desired items and click OK.
To select a time period, click on the Period list and choose a desired item.
To apply the filter conditions, click OK in the Filter window.
You may skip the Filter window by clicking on the OK button (Figure 3.5.1). If necessary, you can specify the filter conditions later. However, if you plan to set any filter conditions in the view, we recommend to set them at this stage, since filtering reduces the number of records displayed, and thus speeds up the process displaying them.
After you have set the filter parameters, click OK. A new view will be created for which the system assigns a name, for example: View1, if it is a first view. You can replace this name by any other name. To do this, right-click on the view name. In the appeared menu, select the Rename item. Type a new name.
You can create a next new view with another filter parameters and so on.
All views are automatically saved by the system. But if after creating the view, you have made some changes in it, saving these changes will depend on the program settings. To check the program settings, select in the program menu: Tools -> Options. The Options window opens as shown in Figure 3.5.2.
Figure 3.5.2
To automatically save changes in a view, select the Automatically save documents check box, and click OK.
