Use the ClearCase Explorer preferences page to specify the appearance
of the ClearCase Remote Client Explorer.
About this task
To configure ClearCase Explorer preferences:
- From the main menu bar, click to open the Preferences dialog
box.
- If you are using the Rational ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse,
select
- If you are using the Rational ClearCase Remote Client, select .
- To specify that hovering over an object with the cursor in the
ClearCase Navigator view or in the ClearCase Details view produces additional
information about the current object, click the Display tool tips
in ClearCase Navigator and ClearCase Details views preference.
- To specify the modified time of the element as the last modified
time of that version in the VOB (instead of the time when the element was
last loaded, updated, or restored), click the Preserve version
creation time when files are updated or loaded from the server preference.
Note that this preference setting can also affect an Undo Checkout or Undo
Hijack operation. Undoing a hijack operation reloads the corresponding version
from the server and restores the last modified time as specified by this preference
setting. Likewise, undoing a checkout operation restores the corresponding
version of the element and also restores the last modified time according
to this preference setting.
- By default, the last modified time of a ClearCase element is the
time it was last checked in. To preserve the last modified time during a checkin
operation or when adding resources to source control, click the Preserve
modification time when checking in files and adding new files to source control preference.
- To append the name of the ClearCase Remote Client server and its
connection status to the names of each of your ClearCase views, click the Decorate
view names with server names and connection status in ClearCase Navigator preference.
- Save your preferences.
- To restore all ClearCase Explorer preferences to their default settings,
click Restore Defaults.
- Click Apply to set the specified preferences
and leave the dialog box open.
- Click OK to set the specified preferences and
close the dialog box.
- To cancel the operation and close the dialog box, click Cancel.