Overview

The Universal Controller 7.8.x user interface is comprised of two basic elements:

Home page
Services

Home Page

When you log in to the Universal Controller 7.8.x user interface, your Universal Controller home page displays.

The home page contains the Home Dashboard and a drop down menu on the left side of the page that lists any Services that you had selected for easy access.

User Interface Details

In addition to the Home Dashboard and user-selected links to areas in Services, the Home Page - and all pages accessed via Services - contains the following information (except where noted).

Section	Description
	Link to the Stonebranch website.
	System Identifier defined by the System Identifier property. The background color and text color of the system identifier are defined by the System Identifier Background Color and System Identifier Color properties.
	Opens drop down menu of the Universal Controller Services available in the user interface.
	Search field that enables you to search for a Name, Description, Member of Business Services, and/or UUID across multiple record types. The Search icon lets you select which field types to search for.
	User-specific information for the logged in user. Edit Profile User Details for this user. Change Password Change Password dialog for this user. User Sessions List of currently authenticated user sessions. Preferences List of User Preferences for this user. Logout Logs out this user from the user interface.
	Links to: Home Dashboard Console RESTful Web Services API Universal Controller user documentation
	Time and node status (System Details).
	Home page only; Refreshes the information displayed on this page.
	Home page only: New Creates a new Dashboard. Edit Edits the Dashboard Delete Delete the Dashboard Set As Default Set the Dashboard as the default Dashboard. Copy Creates a copy of the Dashboard. Visibility Sets the visibility of the Dashboard. Note You cannot Edit or Delete the Home Dashboard.

Available Services

All of the record types are under Available Services.

To add a record type to the home page navigation panel, click the star icon (U) next to the record type in Available Services.

Global Search

Global Search enables you to search the user interface for Name, Description, Member of Business Services, and/or UUID for the following record types:

Agent
Agent Cluster
Application
Bundle
Bundle Target
Calendar
Credentials
Database Connection
Email Connection
Email Template
OAuth Client
OMS Server
PeopleSoft Connection
SAP Connection
Script
SNMP Manager
Task
Trigger
Variable
Virtual Resource
Webhook

You can search for:

Exact field:
Enter a specific record name.
Partial field:
Enter partial text and use a question mark ( ? ) to replace any single character.
Wildcard:
Use a wildcard ( * ) to match one or more matching values (for example: t*, Test*, *est*.

Note

You can receive search results only for records for which you have read access.

Performing a Global Search:

Click the Settings icon on the task bar to configure which fields to search. By default, the Name and Description fields are selected.
In the Search field, enter the text to search for. (Search text is not case sensitive.)
Click the Search icon to perform the search.

A list of any search results then displays.

Customizing the Banner

You can customize the Universal Automation Center banner that displays across the top of the page by changing the banner logo.

Changing the Banner Background Color

To change the background color of the banner, enter a new hexadecimal value in the Banner Background Color Universal Controller system property.

Changing the Banner Logo

Step 1

Copy the logo file that you want to use in the banner to the uc_images directory directly under your Tomcat home/installation directory: ../tomcat/uc_images. Valid logo file extensions are .png, .jpg, and .gif. The logo should be a maximum 298px x 48px. Any logo larger than these dimensions will be scaled automatically; however, it is recommended that keep the logo within these dimensions.

If the uc_images directory does not exist, create it.
If you have a High Availability system, you must copy the logo to the uc_images directory for each Universal Controller cluster node in the system.

Step 2

Login to the Universal Controller (or any Controller cluster node in a High Availability system) and update the Banner Logo Universal Controller system property to the name of the logo file (excluding path) that you copied to the uc_images directory. The logo will be deployed automatically to the Controller. In a High Availability system, where an updated property on one cluster node applies to all cluster nodes (since they share the same database), the logo file will be deployed automatically on initial application request.

Step 3

If you want the logo to link to a web resource, enter the URL for the web resource in the Banner Logo URL Universal Controller system property.

Note

If you update the currently configured banner logo file in the uc_images folder, as long as the banner logo file size has changed, it will be redeployed automatically. If you do not see the updated banner logo from the user interface, try running the Clear Server Cache server operation and/or clearing your browser cache.

Drop-Down Lists

Many record Details contain drop-down lists of available values for specific fields.

For example, the record Details for a User contains a drop-down list of titles that can be assigned to the User:

To select a value from a drop-down list, either:

Click the drop-down list arrow and then click a value.
Begin entering the name of a value in the drop-down list field. A list of values that match your entry then displays. Click a displayed value.

Console

The Console contains informational and error messages regarding recent Controller activity.

For example:

The Console opens automatically to display error ( x ) messages, and you can set the Console to open automatically to display information ( i ) messages (via one of four user preferences that allow you to control the Console display).

Note

Error messages related to specific fields are displayed next to the fields themselves in the record Details, not in the Console.

You also can open the Console manually at any time by clicking the Universal Automation Center Console icon on the User Task Bar.

Console Actions

Action	Icon	Description
Select and Copy	n/a	Select message text either of three ways: Drag your cursor across any of the text. Double-click a single entry in the text to select only that entry. Triple-click anywhere in the message text to select all of the text. Use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste the selected text. You also can select and copy text this way from the Print Preview pop-up (see Print in this table).
Print		Click the Print icon at the top of the Console to display a Print Preview pop-up, and then click the Print button.
Trash		Click the Trash icon at the top of the Console to empty the contents of the Console.
Close		Close the Console either by: Clicking the Close icon at the top of the Console. Double-clicking the Console header.

RESTful Web Services API

Tabs

Every page in the user interface displays, when selected, under a tab at the top of the page. The tab for the page currently being viewed is white; all other tabs are gray.

When you log in to the Controller, the Home dashboard displays under a Dashboards tab. The Home dashboard - as well as the Activity Monitor and Dashboard Details - remain open throughout your session unless you manually close them by clicking the x icon in the tab itself. The tabs for those pages otherwise remain at the top of the screen so that you can quickly return to them at any time.

For example:

If you select a page in the Services while viewing Dashboards, Activity Monitor, or Server Operations, a new tab will open for that page. The Dashboards, Activity Monitor, and Server Operations tabs are pinned automatically to the top of the page and will remain open if you navigate from them.

If you select a page in the Services while viewing any other page, the Pin Tabs Automatically user preference specifies whether or not that page is pinned.

Note

When you close the tab for the page currently being viewed, you return to the tab for the previous page that you viewed, not the tab for the page that you last opened.

Pinning Tabs

You can pin tabs to the top of the page so that the pinned page displays even if you select other pages to display. You also can unpin any pinned tabs at any time (see the Tabs action menu).

The following tabs are pinned automatically and will not close unless you manually close them either by clicking the x icon on the tab or close them via the Tabs action menu.

Dashboards
Activity
Server Operation

Pinned tabs are identified with a pin icon next to the tab name.

Any tab pinned during the current user session will display as pinned when the tab is opened again in a future user session, until the tab is unpinned.

Tab Picker

If you open more tabs that can be displayed on your screen, tab picker icons display that let you scroll back and forth among the tabs and select any tab from a drop-down list

<	Scroll left through the tabs.
>	Scroll right through the tabs.
v	Display a drop-down list of all open tabs.

For example:

Record Details as Tabs

You also can display record Details as tabs at the top of a page

Step 1

From a record list, either:

Right-click a record in the list.
Open a record and right-click in the record Details.

Step 2

In the Action menu, click Open in Tab. The record Details display under a tab at the top of the page.

If you click Open in Tab for an open record, the record is closed and displays only under the tab.

Step 3

If you want to open the same record or another record under another tab, repeat Steps 1 and 2.

You can open any number and combination of tabs from one or more lists in the user interface.

For example:

Additional Information

The following pages provide additional information for the Universal Controller user interface:

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