Suppressing IBM® Engineering Workflow Management pages in the web client

You can suppress Engineering Workflow Management pages in the web client so that users cannot view them. Suppressed pages are removed from the menu bar and hidden from view, but they are not disabled. You can go to suppressed pages by entering the URL in the browser address field.

About this task

You might want to suppress certain pages, such as source control, from the web client. This is useful if you have different categories of users who use different capabilities. For example, project managers who use dashboards, plans, and reports to monitor the progress of a release, might not use source control operations. Developers can access source control operations from the Engineering Workflow Management client for Eclipse IDE or client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

Procedure

  1. On the Administration page for the Engineering Workflow Management application, click the Application tab.
  2. In the Configuration section, click Advanced Properties.
  3. Navigate to the Suppressed Web Pages property.
    The format is {"application id":[page id, page id,...]}. The application id for Engineering Workflow Management is com.ibm.team.rtc.web.rationalTeamConcert.
  4. Edit the Current Value field to specify the page or pages to suppress.
    Page Value
    Work items com.ibm.team.workitem
    Plans com.ibm.team.apt
    Source Control com.ibm.team.scm
    Builds com.ibm.team.build
    Reports com.ibm.team.reports

    For example, to suppress the source control page, enter {"com.ibm.team.rtc.web.rationalTeamConcert":["com.ibm.team.scm"]}.

  5. Click Save.