A perspective defines the layout of the user interface. Snow Owl comes with a set of pre-defined perspectives for different use cases.
The default perspectives are:
Authoring perspective
Value Sets perspective
Mapping Sets perspective
You can select a perspective by choosing Window > Open Perspective. Alternatively, click on one of the perspective icons located at the top right corner of the main toolbar to active a perspective.
In addition to the available perspective layouts, you can also rearrange the user interface in a way that helps you perform your tasks in the most efficient way and create your own perspective based on that. This allows working with different layouts for different use cases or tasks. For example, when mapping SNOMED CT concepts to ICD-10 codes, it may be useful to have the SNOMED CT Concepts view on the far-left side of the screen, the ICD-10 view on the far-right side of the screen, and the editor window between them to simplify dragging and dropping concepts to the map editor.
To create a new perspective
Change the layout of the user interface (e.g. by closing views, moving views to different positions, resizing views or editors).
Once you are happy with the layout, go to Window > Save Perspective As... and enter a name for the new perspective. Click OK.
A new icon will be automatically added to the main toolbar allowing you to easily access your saved perspective.
The icon depends on the perspective you started out from.
To activate a perspective, go to Window > Open Perspective... and select the perspective that you want to display. The respective button will be present in the toolbar as well. This way you can display default perspectives as well as customized perspectives.
Hover over the icons to see which perspective it refers to.
If you would like to reset your current layout to the default settings, go to Window > Reset Perspective...
