Rational Team Concert client for Eclipse IDE

Rational Team Concert™ includes an Eclipse-based client user interface.

The Rational Team Concert components contribute different UI elements to the Eclipse workbench, including views, editors, and status line trims.

Figure 1. Rational Team Concert - Eclipse client interface
This figure shows the Rational Team Concert client interface running on an Eclipse IDE.

Views

View Description
Team Artifacts Manages your connections to a repository and a project area. When you are connected to a project area you can access its artifacts. The artifacts are grouped into different nodes.
Team Central Gives you a quick overview of information that is relevant for your work, including builds, work item activity, or change set deliveries. The view has a user-configurable set of sections. There's generally a specialized view or editor associated with each section that provides more details.
Pending Changes Shows your incoming and outgoing change sets grouped by component. You typically deliver and accept changes from this view.
My Work Shows the work that is currently assigned to you. You typically start to work on a work item from this view.
Work Items Shows you the work items returned from a work item query.
Builds Shows you the summaries of build results. You can open a build result editor to inspect the build results in detail.
Team Advisor Opens when you execute an operation that violates a process configuration. This view tells you what went wrong and often provides a quick fix for the problem.

Team Artifacts view

The Team Artifacts view provides a central point of access to artifacts in the repository (Figure 2). The view shows the artifacts grouped by project area and filtered by team area. Entries are contributed via an extension point. The Jazz kernel contributes entries for things such as web feed subscriptions. Other Jazz components contribute component-specific artifacts, such as builds, plans, streams, and workspaces.
Figure 2. Team Artifacts view
This figure shows the Team Artifacts view, including folders for Builds, Plans, Streams, and Work Items

Team Central view

The Team Central view is the collaboration hub of the Jazz™ technology platform. It can be customized by users, and provides a central place where team members can see what's going on in their team (Figure 3). Team Central is an Eclipse view with multiple sections contributed via an extension point. A typical section shows a concise summary, and connects to another view or editor that presents the information in more detail. The user can configure which sections are visible at any time.
Figure 3. Team Central view
This figure shows the Team Central view, including sections for project news, My Open Work Items, build results, and a list of team members showing their availability to chat.

Editors

Editor Description
Project Area Gives you access to the project area's process configuration, timelines, work item categories, team members and their roles, and all artifacts that are associated with the project area.
Team Area Gives you access to a team's members and their roles, and all artifacts associated with the team area. This is also where a team customizes its process.
Work Item Used to create or modify a work item, change its state, to add comments, attachments, and links to other artifacts. When you save the editor, the updated work item will be transmitted to the repository.
Planning Used to create or modify an iteration plan. An iteration plan is defined for a particular iteration target.
Build Result Shows you a summary of a build, and has tabs that show the details output gathered for the different steps of the build.

Status Line Trims

Status line trim Description
Current Work This widget shows you the current work item in the status line on the bottom right of the Eclipse workbench window. The changes you make will be collected into a change set associated with this work item.
Work Item Use this entry field to quickly search for a work item. You can enter either a work item number or a word from the description or summary. This field appears in the status line on the bottom left of the Eclipse workbench window.
Instant Messaging Status Use this pull-down to quickly update your status or availability on instant messaging.

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