# View Menu

Click an item on the menu to go to the description of the action, or choose from the list below. You can activate the by pressing Alt + V and you can activate each action by pressing the highlited character.

Actions which have an associated hot key show this hot key to the right of the action. You can use the hot key to trigger the action without invoking the View menu.

- View columns: Invokes a submenu from which you can choose the columns that are displayed in the credentials window. If you change the columns, or their order, a new custom layout will be created for you which you can later use using the Layout submenu later. For more information about managing layouts, see the Layout topic.
- Layout: Opens a submenu where you can select the layout for the credentials display.
  - By Identity: A predefined layout where the credentials will be grouped by identity and by credentials type, in that order.
  - By Type: Not implemented in this release. A predefined layout where the credentials are grouped by credentials type
  - By Location: A predefined layout where the credentials are grouped by the location where they are stored in. For Kerberos 5, the location is the name of the credentials cache in which the tickets are stored, and for AFS, the locatino is always the cache manager. Individual credential providers choose the interpretation of the location property as the concept of location changes from type to type.
  - Custom: If you customize any of the above layouts by adding, removing, reordering or changing the sort or outline columns, then NetIDMgr will store your new layout settings under this layout. Invoking this menu item restores your customizations.
- Refresh: Refresh the credentials view. This queries each credential provider for any credentials and redraws the credentials view.