Quite detailed documentation on both view and tool shortcuts is available
from within the ClearCase Explorer by going to the Help menu, and choosing
"Help Topics". Once in the help applet, double click on "ClearCase User
Interfaces" and then "ClearCase Explorer". Follow the "How To" or "More
Details" hyperlinks.
Also, pressing the "question mark/arrow" toolbar button and then clicking on
any of the "panes" in the interface provides information on what each is
for, and for tools in the toolbox that have built-in documentation, the same
mechanism provides that help.
Adrien
"Marilyn Sander" <marilyn@hal.com> wrote in message
news:<200009211757.KAA10060@capella.ssd.hal.com>...
>
> The view shortcuts do not seem to be well thought out. The concept
> of a view shortcut is not documented in the help system, either.
>
> It would probably be very helpful if someone at Rational would sit
> down and document both the concept and the way it works in a form
> suitable for inclusion in a user manual. The process of doing the
> documentation would force them to think through the whole implementation
> and exercise the the implementation fully, and would uncover the
> weaknesses and oversights.
>
> One bug I've found is that if a view that had a shortcut is removed
> from the registry, Explorer's complaint does not give a clue as to what's
> really wrong. I forget what the message is. But I ended up trying
> repeatedly to map the view to a drive letter before I figured out that
> the view was gone.
>
> It also is not at all clear what a page is and what a pane is, nor
> what is the difference between a pane and a page. There are menus and
> helps that refer to different types of panes and pages, but the
> panes and pages that are displayed are not labeled to tell you what
> type each one is.
>
> I'm sure that ClearCase Explorer will be fine tool once I get the hang
> of it. But it sure is hard to get started with it. And I don't like
> having to tell my developers that ClearCase Details has been replaced
> with a tool that is quirky and for all practical purposes undocumented.
>
> --Marilyn Sander
>
> | From: Ford David W <David.Ford@Tms-Ltd.com>
> | To: "Cciug (E-mail)" <cciug@rational.com>
> | Subject: [cciug] ClearCase Explorer
> | Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:39:43 +0100
> | MIME-Version: 1.0
> | X-Majordomo-Taboo: cciug
> |
> |
> | Hi CCIUG,
> |
> | Is anyone else having problems getting to grips with the new ClearCase
> | Explorer in 4.1?
> |
> | Two problems keep bugging me at the moment;
> |
> | 1. When first running it, I got about 8 views displayed in the shortcut
pane
> | that I didn't want. So I removed them using 'remove view shortcut'.
Later
> | on, I clicked on 'Refresh view shortcuts', expecting it to refresh the
> | shortcuts I had on display. But no, it has to go and bring back all the
> | views I don't want.
> |
> | Is there any way to get rid of these permanently?
> |
> | 2. Being use to starting views/mapping drives 'outside' of the explorer,
I
> | find it a pain when right clicking on a file and selecting the Explorer
I
> | get nothing but a message telling me that the drive isn't mapped to an
> | existing shortcut. What's worse, if I then go to create a shortcut to
that
> | view, the drive already mapped to it isn't available from the pick list.
> | Thus I have to map to another drive and end up having the same view
mapped
> | to two drives!
> |
> | Why can't the ClearCase Explorer work realise this sort of scenario and
> | automatically create a shortcut to that view for you? Could this be a
> | possible enhancement?
> |
> | Sorry for the gripes, but the Explorer seems to be made up of 'Panes',
and
> | I'm finding it one big one!
> |
> |
> | David Ford
> | Software Configuration Manager
> | Thomson Marconi Sonar Ltd
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