Spotlight grid content | Spotlight Enterprise Documentation

Right-click over the body content of a Spotlight grid for options.

View as chart

Show the data in a Spotlight chart. Not all grids have this option.

What’s this

Show help.

Icon	Description
	If available, click to show more numerical detail related to the Spotlight grid.

Find…

Find text in the Spotlight grid.

Control	Description
Text to find	Enter or paste in the text you want to find.
Match case	Select to match the case of the text exactly. When selected, a search for the string AbC will not find the string abc.
Match entire cell contents	Select to match the contents of the table cell exactly. When selected, a search for the string Spot will not find the string Spotlight.
Up	Search upwards from the current location then stop.
Down	Search downwards from the current location then stop.
Search all columns	Search all columns of the table.
Search selected column only	Search only the highlighted column.
Find next	Find the next occurrence of the text in the grid.

Note: The Find function may be of limited use in dynamic columns (Elapsed time is one example) whose values are continually updated.

Save as…

Save the Spotlight grid to a file.

Copy to clipboard

Copy the Spotlight grid to the clipboard then paste from the clipboard to the desired destination – as text within a text editor.

Tip: You can select to copy the whole table, the selected row, column or cell.

Restore default settings

Restore the default order to the column headings and word-wrapping settings.

Right-click on the data in the chart or grid.
Select Restore Default Settings.
Click Restore.

Tree view

Display the left most column of the Spotlight grid as a hierarchical tree structure. The images below show the same first column of a table in the two formats: a simple text string and a hierarchical tree structure.

Toggle the tree view on/off. Not all grids have this option.

Sample Grid no Tree Sample Tree

Note: When you sort a table in tree view, the table is sorted first according to the highest level in the tree; the individual branches and sub-branches of the tree are sorted separately in the same order.

Freeze First Column

When Freeze First column is selected, the first column will remain visible while you scroll through the columns of the table.

Unable to collect data

If Spotlight is unable to collect the data required, Spotlight displays a small icon on the affected component. Click the icon to see more information about the problem.