Zone Administration gives you access to the zone administration window, from which you can add, remove or alter current zones as well as view slots currently in use through the zone usage tab.

To access the Zone Administration window, from the main menu, select Administration → Zone Administration.

The Zone tab displays current zones index, zone ID's, descriptions and number of slots per level.

• Add: Adds a new zone.
• Disable: Disables the use of the zone.
• Edit
  • Paste (Using Selected Attributes)
• Enable: Enables the use of the zone.
• Print
  • All: Prints all zones and associated information.
  • Labels: Prints labels for use when scanning volumes into zones.
  • Selected: Prints selected zones and associated information.
• Properties: Opens Edit Zone window to edit zone properties and view zone usage information.

The Zone Usage tab displays the current zone index, zones ID's, Descriptions, assigned Customer and Media and Repository ID's, start and end and total slot numbers, notes, number of used slots, number of free slots and percentage of free slots.

To view the zone usage data, select the Zone Usage tab and click Yes to the Resolve Free Slots popup.

Data in the columns can be displayed in ascending or descending order by clicking the column headings.

Displayed data can be filtered by using the TapeTrack String Filters

Selected zones can be printed by right clicking highlighted zones and selecting Print → Selected, or Print → All to print all zones.

To export to a file, select the required Zone ID's from the Zone Usage tab and press Ctrl + e.

If no zones are selected when Ctrl + e is pressed, a popup is presented. Click Yes to export all records or click No to exit export and select required records before pressing Ctrl + e to start export process.

Select the output format from:

• Comma Delimited File (CSV)
• Microsoft Excel
• Text file
• XML File

By default the Open file when export is complete is checked, uncheck if you do not want the file to open on export.

Click OK to export or Cancel to abort the process.

Click the X in the top right corner to exit.

Data exported to text file

             System: TapeTrack
 Report Description: Export
    Production Time: Friday, June 15, 2018 - 11:16:02 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
       Report Width: 90 bytes

ZoneID Zone Description Customer Media Repository Start End Total Notes Used Free  %-Free 
------ ---- ----------- -------- ----- ---------- ----- --- ----- ----- ---- ----- ------ 
00003  GT3  GemTrac 4   US04     LTO   OFFS       1     450 450         8    442   98.22  
00002  GT2  GemTrac 2   US04     LTO   OFFS       1     450 450         5    445   98.89  
00001  GT1  GemTrac 1   US04     LTO   OFFS       1     450 450         4    446   99.11  
Total                                                       1,350       17   1,333 98.74  
------ ---- ----------- -------- ----- ---------- ----- --- ----- ----- ---- ----- ------