The ClearCase Navigator view displays a list of all Rational ClearCase views on the local host as well as a list of ClearCase servers that have been previously connected to. You can use the ClearCase Navigator to explore the contents of the objects in each of the lists. You can also use the view to explore the contents of remote Rational ClearCase repositories (VOBs) and select resources to load into a local Rational ClearCase view.
Details about objects selected in the ClearCase Navigator view appear in the ClearCase Details view.
To access the ClearCase Navigator, click . If ClearCase Navigator does not appear in the list, click and then select ClearCase Navigator.
If no Rational ClearCase views appear in the list, use one of the ClearCase view creation wizards to create one. If your computer already hosts views created with the ClearCase Web interface, you can use the ClearCase Navigator's Add Existing Web View option ( ) to make them visible in the Navigator.
To explore a ClearCase server, click the plus sign (+) adjacent to the server name. ClearCase VOBs, PVOBs, UCM projects, and streams known to a ClearCase server appear in both the Navigator view and the Details view. UCM activities, label types, and branch types appear only in the Details view. To work with UCM activities, click the My Activities node in the Navigator view; the UCM activities then appear in the Details view.
There is a ClearQuest node nested under the server node. You can expand this node to see the ClearQuest databases that are stored on the server. If you are authenticated to the databases, you can expand them to see and run queries stored in the databases.
Click the Menu
icon on the ClearCase Navigator view toolbar to open the options menu.
From this options menu, you can connect to or disconnect from a server or
database, add an existing web view, set one or more of the available view
filters (Unloaded elements, Unloaded Private VOBs, Unloaded Public VOBs),
set or manage working sets, and Refresh the resources displayed in the Navigator
view.