The Design View is where you make administrative changes to a baseline dial plan or element list or create a new dial plan and apply those changes to the elements.
The Design View allows you to configure your network dial plan, preview and validate your design, and commit it for distribution to the network.
When you open a new design session, you are presented with a reflection of the baseline dial plan, which you can modify and commit to the network.
When you open an existing design, you are presented with the dial plan design that was previously saved, either explicitly from a design session, explicitly from a baseline dial plan that you exported, or implicitly archived when a design session successfully committed.
You can expand the Administrative Domain (AD) in this view to show all elements in your network.
Note: You can view all elements in the dial plan. However, you can only modify dial plan components that are in your scope. These dial plan components appear highlighted in blue font when you enter a design session.
You can choose to perform administrative tasks of the entire AD or a particular region. Your scope is the piece of the network over which you have administrative privileges. Only one user can administer a particular scope at a given time.
Administrative changes made in the Design View are not applied to the dial plan until the design is committed.
Changes to a dial plan design session can be saved and resumed at a later login session.
In the Design View you can execute any of the following VRC operations:
Open a previously saved dial plan design
Start a new dial plan design session
Preview your design
View attributes of a region or elements within that region on the Attributes tab
Check element accessibility
Add or delete elements which have been introduced in the topology to your dial plan design
Close and save your design for later recall
Add or modify gatekeeper groups, directory gatekeeper groups, and zones
View the VRC- generated CLI console
Export the dial plan design to a browser window
Delete a saved design from the server storage
Reactivate gateways, gatekeepers, and directory gatekeepers
When you are in the Design View, you can right-click a selected scope to add elements to the dial plan, check existing elements, reactivate elements, or export the dial plan design to a browser window.