Tool Mentor:  Browsing Project Artifacts Using Rational ProjectConsole

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to navigate Rational ProjectConsole using the sample artifacts that are installed with it. ProjectConsole automates the generation of project artifacts so you can create them quickly and accurately.

Overview

ProjectConsole capitalizes on Java applet technologies to provide you with familiar and multiple forms of navigation.  If you click directly on the text of a tree control node the artifact page associated with that node is displayed.  If you expand a tree control node by clicking on the node’s plus-sign, then hyperlinks that would be displayed by clicking on the text of the node are displayed as child nodes, from which you can continue navigating.

This tool mentor is applicable when using Microsoft Internet Explorer (release 5.5 or greater)  or Netscape (release 4.6 or later).

Tool Steps

To browse project artifacts using ProjectConsole:

1. Launch a browser.
2. Enter the URL for your installation's ProjectConsole site. The URL can be obtained by contacting your ProjectConsole administrator. The ProjectConsole logon screen is displayed.
3. Enter a valid username and password on this logon screen. The ProjectConsole artifact browser is displayed.
4. Expand the Project Information and All Published Metrics nodes, and then click on the text of the Public node.
5. Click on any hyperlink displayed in the right frame of ProjectConsole.
6. Navigate the ProjectConsole metrics by expanding the ProjectConsole Tools node and then clicking on the text of the Dashboard node.

Note: The artifacts displayed by ProjectConsole are those defined to be displayed using the Rational ProjectConsole Template Builder. Use ProjectConsole Template Builder to modify the appropriate template to change the displayed artifacts.

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