Use the ClearCase Navigator and ClearCase Details view to explore
remote ClearCase repositories and local ClearCase views.
Before you begin
Before you can explore the contents of remote ClearCase repositories
(VOBs), you must
create a ClearCase view.
About this task
With the ClearCase Navigator view and ClearCase Details view you can explore resources in local ClearCase
views whether or not you are connected to a ClearCase Web server. To explore
remote resources (those that have not been loaded into a local ClearCase view),
you must connect to the ClearCase Web server that supports the view.
To
explore ClearCase repositories:
- In the ClearCase Navigator, select a ClearCase
view. To connect to the ClearCase server that supports the view,
click the
icon on the ClearCase toolbar
or select Connect from the ClearCase context menu.
If you do not connect to the ClearCase server, you cannot browse remote resources.
- Use the ClearCase Navigator and ClearCase
Details view to explore local resources, remote resources, or both:
- In the ClearCase Navigator, click the plus sign (+) to the left of
a folder to expand the folder and display any folders it contains. A folder
that contains only files cannot be expanded in the ClearCase Navigator. The
files it contains are listed in the ClearCase Details view.
- In the ClearCase Navigator, select a folder to display its contents
in the ClearCase Details view.
- In the ClearCase Details view, double-click a folder to display the
files or folders that it contains. This action also selects the folder in
the ClearCase Navigator.
Results
To load a resource that is displayed in the
ClearCase Navigator or
ClearCase
Details view, select the resource and click the

icon
on the ClearCase toolbar or select
Load Resource from
the ClearCase context menu.
Note: If you are browsing a ClearCase view that
is connected to a ClearCase server running the UNIX system, you typically
must expand one or more VOB tag components (parts of the path name to a VOB
storage directory) before you can access VOB contents. In the ClearCase
Details view, VOB tag components are listed with a Kind value
of VOB Tag Component. No operations are permitted on
a VOB Tag Component.