Visualize, Present, and Preview

GUI-guided tutorial for Visualize lenses. Traffic details: Traffic Lens. Gallery: Visualize, Traffic, and Present.

#Goal

Use Visualize lenses for demos and checks, and know how Present differs from Preview.

#Why Visualize exists

Design edits topology. Operate powers nodes. Visualize is for watching health, traffic, validation, and presenting without accidental edits.

Legacy docs called Observe / Validate / Present top-level modes. Today they are lenses under Visualize.

#GUI tutorial

#Step 1 - Switch to Visualize

1. Open a lab
2. Click Visualize on the workspace mode switch
3. Confirm Visualize chrome (tool rail / More lenses)

#Step 2 - Open Validate

1. More -> Validate (or Validate on the tool rail)
2. Read findings beside the canvas

#Step 3 - Protocol adjacency (optional)

1. More -> Protocol adjacency
2. Use for teaching relationships without leaving Visualize

#Step 4 - Present lens (clean demo)

1. More -> Present
2. Edit chrome hides; topology stays visible
3. Press Escape to leave Present

#Step 5 - Preview (not Present)

1. Click Preview on the workspace bar
2. Immersive Design - tools stay enabled
3. Use when you need to fix a link mid-demo

#Step 6 - Traffic

Open Traffic for utilization / bandwidth - full walkthrough: Traffic Lens.

#Expected result

• Present removes edit chrome; Escape restores the workspace
• Preview keeps Design tools at fullscreen scale
• Validate / Protocol adjacency open from More while mode stays Visualize

#If it fails

• Present does nothing -> confirm mode is Visualize before More -> Present
• Still see template pickers -> you opened Preview, not Present
• Escape does not exit -> leave fullscreen first, then Overview

#Related

• Traffic Lens
• Toolbars and More menu
• Operate and consoles
• Packet capture