Marilyn,
I apologize for being unclear. The tool basically has three major windows
within it: the "folder pane" which contains the tree control, the "shortcut
pane" and the main client area (by default, it's on the right and contains
the list of elements). The tree control is rooted at the view root and
contains what you'd expect. The main client area contains the list of
elements (or UCM activities) and possibly an html page. When looking at a
list, there is, by default, a splitter in which the bottom half contains an
html page which hopefully gives you pointers to useful help topics. You can
remove this "page" as mentioned earlier (view->information pane). There are
also times when the main client area contains just an html page. That is
true when the tool first starts since it doesn't know what view to use until
you select one. Finally, the "shortcut pane" is that pea-soup colored window
with the tabs. The two tabs at the bottom (views and toolbox) are the
outer-most. Views contains all of your view shortcuts. Toolbox contains you
Homebase-like tool shortcuts plus the html informational content just
described. You can create view shortcuts by clicking on the "Views" tab at
the bottom, and right clicking in the pea-soup area. You'll get the context
menu. You can do the same in the toolbox page where you can create tool or
URL shortcuts. Clicking on any of the "bars" on each page shows shortcuts in
specific groups of views or tools. Finally, clicking on a shortcut makes it
your "current view", which is retained between invocations.
All shortcuts are retained between invocations of the tool. The operation in
which all of your views are turned into shortcuts happens only the first
time you use the tool and when you choose the menu "View->Refresh view
shortcuts", primarily because it is expensive to do each time you start, the
shortcuts persist, and because when you create new views within the app, the
shortcut(s) is/are created automatically.
Adrien
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marilyn Sander [mailto:marilyn@hal.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:49 PM
> To: abisson@Rational.Com
> Cc: cciug@Rational.Com
> Subject: Re: [cciug] ClearCase Explorer
>
>
> abisson said:
> If view shortcuts are not created, as in your case, you only have to press
> the "views" tab of the shortcut bar, right click on that page, and choose
> "Create view shortcut".
>
> What shortcut bar? I don't see any shortcut bar. I tried right-clicking
> on the view tab, and that produced no action.
>
> Then I chose Views from the File/View/Go/Tools/Environment/Help bar at
> the top, and clicked on refresh views. This got all the views, including
> the ones on the UNIX server, displayed in the view pane. So why aren't
> the views refreshed automatically whenever ClearCase Explorer is started?
>
> And I still don't know what a view shortcut is, though once you tell
> me where the "shortcut bar" is I guess I'll be able to create one.
>
> Oh, and one more thing. John Falasco mentioned pages in his e-mail.
> What is a "page" in the context of ClearCase Explorer?
>
> --Marilyn
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