Views

Views give you different ways of looking at information in a table by arranging it differently and selecting different formats. Each module in Biblioscape comes with a set of pre-defined views. You can make changes to a view, for example, by changing the way items are grouped or sorted. You can also create custom views.

Change the view

To change the view of a module, go to the menu command "View | Current View". Select the desired view from the combo box "Current View".

• Add or remove fields in a view
  You can easily add or remove fields in a view. Click the menu command "View | Current View | Field Chooser". Then drag-and-drop columns between the table and the field list box. For the References module, not all fields are listed in the field list box. To make more fields available for display, go to the menu command "Tools | Options". On the "General Display" tab, check the field name in the list box "Fields to be included".
• Group records by a field
  A group is a set of items with something in common, such as references from the same journal. Group items to see related items together, in much the same way as an outline. For example, grouping references by year makes all references published in the same year appear together. You can expand or collapse the group headings to display or hide the items they contain. To group items, click the menu command "View | Current View | Group By". The Group By panel will be shown. Drag a column header to the Group By panel to group by that column. You can group by more than one column. Drag and drop a second column under the first one in the Group By panel. To ungroup items, drag a column button in the Group By panel back to the column header row. To hide the Group By panel, click menu command "View | Current View | Group By".
• Change column width
  The width of any column in a view can be changed. Move the cursor to the column header. When the cursor is on top of the column separator line, the cursor icon will change to a divider. Hold down the left mouse key and drag the cursor left or right to change the column width.
• Change column order
  Drag the column header until it is over the border between the column headers where you want the column to appear. When a double-arrow green marker appears, release the mouse button.
• Sort by column
  You can sort records by column by clicking the column's header. Clicking it again will reverse the sorting order. The sorting order will be remembered for that view. If you do not want the sorting order to be remembered between sessions, hold down the Ctrl key and click the column's header.

Save the current view

When you quit Biblioscape, the current view will be updated according to the current display settings. These include column width, column order, sorting, grouping, etc.