In the previous lessons, you worked directly in the Rational® Focal Point™ repository.
In the repository, administrators can add, delete, and change elements.
To provide users with access to elements, administrators must define
views of the elements.
Views define what users can see. You
can define views that show various subsets of your information. For
example, you might create a view of only Estate cars, or only cars
that a specific user created after a specific date.
In this lesson,
you define a view to display all the cars that are in the Cars module.
- On the navigation bar, click .
- Click Add View.
- In the Title field, type All
Cars.
- In the Description field, type This
view shows all elements in the Cars module.
- Select the menu in which this view must be listed and set
the toolbar options. By default, the view is set to be
listed in the Display menu.
- Do not modify other attributes. Click OK. A list of the available modules is displayed. Select the
module to which this view applies.
- To define the views for the Cars module, click Cars. A wizard opens, which you can use to define the rules
and access levels of the attributes in the view.
- Follow the instructions in the wizard. The default rule
is to show elements whose type is a folder is set to false. Because
you need a view that shows all elements that are in the Cars module,
do not set any other rule. Proceed with the default rule by clicking OK and
then clicking Next.
- For your work in this tutorial, you do not need all of
the administrative attributes. Hide some of the attributes that are
not required in the view. Use the following table to set the access
levels for each of the attributes.
Table 1. Access
levels for each attribute| Attribute |
Access Level |
| ID |
Visible |
| Title |
Editable |
| Description |
None |
| Type |
Editable |
| Price |
Editable |
| Element Information |
Visible |
| Owner |
Visible |
| Creator |
None |
| Created Date |
None |
| Last Changed By |
None |
| Last Changed Date |
Visible |
| Parent Folder |
Editable |
- Click Finish. The
view definition is displayed and the All Cars view
is added to the Display menu.
- To open the view, click .
After you define the views, you can view elements in different
display modes.