Summary view

The summary view displays the results of a configured summary search item created by processing the defined metrics, conditions and searches against a stop, load, trip, or booking type search. The name of the summary search is displayed in the title bar of the summary view, followed by the name of the applied stop, load, trip, or booking search in parentheses.

To run Summary views

Define a group item.
Add a stop, load, trip, or booking summary item and an associated stop, load, trip, or booking type search.
Right-Click the summary item and Click Run.

Each item in this view directly correlates to metric, condition and search items defined in the configuration. Any search defined in the summary view definition is limited to being the same entity type as the summary view. You cannot, for example, select a trip search when configuring a load summary view.

You can collapse a summary view by clicking anywhere on the title bar that is not occupied by an icon. Click again on the title bar to expand the view.

Summary views may be presented either as a “form view” or as a “grid view” via the Show History option provided on the Customize Summary page.

In "form view"

Metric items display with a text label followed by the computed result satisfying the associated search criteria.
Condition items display with a text label followed by a count of search results.
Search items display with a text label followed by a count of search results.

In “grid view”, metric, condition, and summary items display as columns in the summary view grid.

In either view type, clicking on a non-zero Condition result cascades this count into a new entity view. The title of the cascaded view lists the condition and record count to make identification easier. If a view by this name is already open, selecting the condition result does nothing. Instead, click Refresh on the cascade view to process the cascade search again.

In “form view” (i.e., Show History is not set), the vertical space consumed by a summary view depends on the number of elements defined and the number of columns per row, both of which are set when the summary search is configured. If the number of columns per row exceeds the viewable width of the summary view in the results panel, a horizontal scrollbar is presented at the bottom of the results panel and you will have to scroll horizontally to view them. Eliminate the need for horizontal scrolling by reducing the number of columns per row.

In “grid view” (i.e., Show History is set), the presentation of the summary view is in grid format with the first column always being the date/time that the summary metrics, conditions, and searches were run. Use grid view presentations if you want to track changes to summary view elements throughout a Smartbench session. Each Refresh will add a new row to the top of the grid. If the number of search view elements exceeds the width of the page, a horizontal scrollbar is presented.

A Chart view is available only from summary views presented as a grid. To open a Chart, left-click on a column header and select the Chart context menu option. All Charts displays column values in the y-axis and timestamps in x-axis. Charts include a baseline chart line equal to the value of the oldest record in the historical data.

The Show as Tiles option allows you to show Summary views in a Dashboard style. When selected, each Metric, Conditions or Search will present as a “Tile” instead of the classical “text and result” presentation. Though it consumes a larger area of the result panel compared to the classical view, you may find the presentation more appealing.