The Action Panel is the top row in the IBM® Rational® Change window and is where you start any operation (for example, Queries). The Action Panel contains buttons and links appropriate for your interface.
The following User options are available in the Action Panel.
Note: Clicking a link displays the corresponding dialog box in the
Dialog Panel.
- Home link
- Click to view your home page. You can easily design a custom home page or use one your administrator designed. By default, the home page shows the splash screen.
- Queries link
- Click to build and run a report by combining a query and report format.
- Reports link
- Click to run a report, either a new report or a pre-defined report.
- Projects link
- Click to manage project security in the User interface.
Note: The Projects link is available only to users who are administrators or editors of a project.
- Advanced Search link
- Click to perform a search for change requests or tasks.
- Settings link
- Click to change your profile and preferences.
- Help link
- Click to view help for your interface.
Note: Click the Help link on each dialog box button bar to view context-sensitive help.
- Exit link
- Click to log out of Rational Change. This operation quits the session and frees the session resources.
- Go button
- Click to create a change request.
- CR option button
- Click, and then type a change request into the adjacent change request/task box, to show details about, or perform another operation on, a change request.
- Task option button
- Click, and then type a task number into the adjacent change request/task box, to show details about a task.
- Change Request/Task box (unlabeled)
- Type the ID of a change request or task, or enter search strings into this box.
- Show button
- Click to show or change the attributes of a single change request or task.
- Search button
- Click to do a quick search after entering information in the adjacent box.
- DB list
- Click to show a list of all active databases. To access information in a different database, select the database. You do not have to log on to a different database when you want to remain in the same interface specified when you logged on to the system.