Available views
Based on different needs and scopes, technicians
can switch
to any pre-defined cases view. For example, the 'problem
category-problem type' view is very useful when
technicians want to group
cases on line of problems in a hierarchical tree, so that it
is easy to have a summarized information as which problem
type has the maximum and minimum cases. Similarly, a manager
can have a generalized information on the case life span (eg.
the day it was created to the day it was resolved) in a
timeline view by choosing one of the calendar view.There are more than 30 or so views available in each
support cases folder, namely, 'Ongoing Cases' and
'Resolved Cases'. Most of the views are common
to both folders except for few such as 'Date
Closed - Calendar' view which is only available in the 'Resolved cases' folder.
You can easily change the view in two ways:
- through the SupportCalls toolbar

- through Outlook view menu

As there are a staggering number of views in
SupportCalls, describing each one of them is out of
the scope. However, some of interesting ones are
discussed below with relevant screenshots.
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Case Number
This view sorts the cases in the folder
by Case Number (or Case ID) in descending
order. One drawback of Outlook field that
employs a numeric data type is sorting, that
is, often when you sort a numeric field, the
sorting is performed by string
(alpha-numerically) rather than numerically
resulting in the 'Case ID' field out of
sequence. But this is taken care of in this
view and you will always find the 'Case ID'
field in sequence no matter how many digit
figures the 'Case ID' is in.

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Cases
Worked today - Table (Filtered)
This view only displays the support cases
that were worked (or modified) today. This
is useful for helpdesk managers to keep tap
on the progress of the recent cases. For
example, when they want to know which
technicians had worked on what cases at the
end of the day. All other cases that are not
worked on today are hidden (can be verified
easily from the '(Filter Applied)' tag at
the right corner of the title bar.

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Date
created - Calendar
This takes a calendar view and displays all
the support cases based on the creation
date. The cases listed in the calendar view
can be arranged in the same way as that of
appointments in your default calendar -
day/week/month. The only difference being
that when you double-click the item (case),
it would be opened with the custom case
form, instead of the appointment form.

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Date Range
- Calendar (Created Date - Due Date)
This is a special calendar view that
displays all support cases in a range
format, taking 'Created Date' as the start
time, and 'Due Date' as the End time.

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Problem
category
This is table view that groups all support
cases in the folder by 'Problem Category'
and then by 'Problem Type', resulting in an
hierarchical listing of cases.

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Technicians
This is also a table view that groups all
support cases in the folder by
'Technicians'.

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Date Range
- Timeline (Date Created - Date Closed)
This view takes a timeline view (one that is
used in Journal folder) and lists all
support cases in lines and icons with 'Date
Created' set to Start time and 'Date Closed'
set to End time.
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