The DTR Client Perspective 

There are some basic views that are available in the eclipse DTR client view. The user can configure the client to display the desired views.

The following views are available:

·        Repository Browser: Displays the contents of the repository.

·        Closed Activities: Displays the list of closed activities categorized per workspace.

·        Open Activities: Displays the list of all the open activities categorized per workspace.

·        Version Graph: Displays the version graph that has been requested for a resource.

·        Command Output: Displays the command output of the operations performed by the user. Also displays the errors/failures encountered during the operations.

·        Integration Conflicts: Displays the conflicts encountered during an integrate operation. The conflicts are categorized per workspace.

·        Properties: Displays the properties of the selected object.

 

The following figure shows the user interface of the DTR Eclipse client, the DTR perspective:

DTR client. The main window, the Perspective, contains different subwindows, the views. All parts of the main windows are views of the DTR client:

¡        The Repository Browser view shows workspace folders (dev), workspaces (active and inactive), folders and files (resources).

¡        The Open Activities view shows an activity used to change a table.

¡        The DTR Console view shows the actions in the DTR server.

¡        Under the DTR Console view, you can see part of another view Integration Conficts.

In the DTR perspective, you can select, arrange and resize all views according to your needs. As you can see in the figure, views can be piled up like tab strips.

To change a view to fullscreen display or to diminish it again to normal size, double-click the titlebar of the view.

Frequently used functions of the perspective or its views are:

·        Refresh: Updates the display of the elements in the view. You can use this function with the same effect in different views.

·        Favorites: Allows you to go to your favorites or delete them. To add nodes to the favorites, use their context menus.

·        DTR Server: Here, you can select development configurations to which you want to connect (except in Scenario 1) . During the start, you are always connected to the last selected server.