IBM SC34-4499-03 manual Getting familiar with the TeamConnection client interfaces, Using the GUI

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Chapter 2. Getting familiar with the TeamConnection client interfaces

TeamConnection provides several interfaces that you can use to access data:

vA graphical user interface based on industry standards.

vA command line interface that lets you type TeamConnection commands from a prompt or from within TeamConnection.

vA web client, that you access through your web browser.

You can use any of the interfaces to do all of your TeamConnection work, or you can switch back and forth between the them. You might ®nd that some tasks are easier to do from the GUI or through the web, while others are easier to do from the command line.

The examples throughout ªPart 2. Developing a product using TeamConnectionº on page 15 give instructions for both GUI and command line interface usage.

This chapter helps you to begin using the TeamConnection client interfaces. It describes the following:

vUsing the GUI

±Starting and stopping the GUI

±Getting around in the GUI

±Using the Settings notebook

±Using the online help that is provided with TeamConnection

vUsing the command line interface

vUsing the web client

Before you can use TeamConnection, someone in your organization with superuser or admin authority, such as your family administrator, must create for you a unique user ID and a host list entry for the workstation where you installed the client.

Using the GUI

TeamConnection provides a GUI that you can use to do all of your TeamConnection work. To use the GUI efficiently, set your default values in your Settings notebook to suit your working environment, and then become familiar with the Tasks window and how you can save time by adding your most common tasks to it.

Note: If available, use the Select Preference File window to specify your con®guration ®le for the TeamConnection GUI. This is the ®le that TeamConnection uses to store and retrieve the information you have selected for the various GUI windows. Preferences such as which view you are using for a window (for example Details view on the Defects window), the column order for a window, and the window size are saved in this ®le.

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IBM SC34-4499-03 manual Getting familiar with the TeamConnection client interfaces, Using the GUI