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title: Administer Dependency Views
description: Users with the sn\_cmdb\_admin or admin role can control the appearance and behavior of Dependency Views by configuring map indicators, map related items, map icons, and menu actions.
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# Administer Dependency Views

Users with the sn\_cmdb\_admin or admin role can control the appearance and behavior of Dependency Views by configuring map indicators, map related items, map icons, and menu actions.

-   **[Create or modify map indicators](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/t_CreateModifyNGBSMMapIndicators.md)**  
Dependency Views maps and application service maps, use icons to display additional information for a CI by displaying its related records such as alerts, outages, incidents and problems. These icons are called map indicator.
-   **[Create or modify map icons](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/t_CreateModifyNGBSMMapIcons.md)**  
Upload new icons or modify existing icons to customize the icon displayed for a CI in maps in Dependency Views, Service Mapping, and Event Management.
-   **[Create a predefined filter](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/create-predefined-filter.md)**  
Create filters to narrow down the CIs that are displayed on a Dependency Views map. You can create filters that are based on CIs' class, CIs' attributes, or CIs' relationships.
-   **[Set a predefined filter as default](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/set-predefined-filter-default.md)**  
You can set a custom predefined filter as the default predefined filter for viewing maps.
-   **[Create or modify Map Related Items](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/t_CreateModifyNGBSMMapRelatedItems.md)**  
The Map Related Items module relates referenced CIs to one another, which allows them to be displayed in a Dependency Views map.
-   **[Create or modify Dependency Views menu actions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/t_CreateModifyNGBSMMenuActions.md)**  
To modify an existing menu option, first you create a copy of the original menu action record, and then you modify the copy.
-   **[Condition and script parameters for menu actions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/condition-script-parameters.md)**  
You can use the following condition and script parameters for menu actions.
-   **[Create or edit a dependency type](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/t_CreateMapScript.md)**  
Use one of the dependency types provided, or create a custom dependency type with a script that will execute in real time to generate a custom view of a Dependency Views map for a specific CI.

**Parent Topic:**[Dependency Views](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/dependency-views/c_BusinesssServiceManagementMaps.md)

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