Rational Quality Manager user interface

This topic describes the elements in the IBM® Rational® Quality Manager user interface and how you use them.

The following screen capture shows a sample page in Rational Quality Manager. The numbers correspond to rows in the table that describes the elements in the page.

Sample Rational Quality Manager page

The page contains several sections. This table describes the sections and the types of actions you perform in each.

Table 1. Rational Quality Manager user interface elements
User interface element Description
1. Application banner The title banner at the top of the page that contains the product name. The ID of the person who is logged in id displayed on the right side of the banner. You log out by clicking Log Out at the far right side of the banner.
2. Global task bar The menu options directly under the application banner on the right side. The options are Search, Admin, Preferences, and Help. To search globally for an artifact in Rational Quality Manager, type the name of the artifact in the Search field and click the Search icon (Search).
Note: The global search does not currently provide results for lab management artifacts
Use the Admin menu to define system properties, server settings, projects, and users. Use the Preferences menu to change how the user interface elements are displayed. For example, the default display shows icons in the left sidebar. You can change the display to have menus at the top of the page instead of the icons. The user documentation assumes that you are using the default display with the icons in the left sidebar. Use the Help menu to display online help topics and tutorials, server health and all the installed bundles, and the product version.
3. Left sidebar vertical navigation The area where the menu icons are displayed in the default page view. Each icon opens a list of related test management options.
4. Table of contents A list of sections that are available in the page that you have open. Click any of the section titles in the table of contents to go directly to that section.
5. Page content area The area in the center of the page. Application editors and views are displayed in the page content area. This is where you perform the tasks that you open by clicking the Rational Quality Manager menu options.
6. Related information The pane on the right side of the page. This area contains links to RSS feeds and other relevant information. You can minimize or delete this pane to increase the page content area.

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