This view displays the results of the reference search
requested for the instance currently selected in the Design
Explorer view. This search, which was started from the choice of the instance menu, was performed directly
on the Rational Team Concert™ Server.
The search follows the composition links of the instance.
The view title indicates which type of references is currently displayed,
according to your search request:
- The super references, which are the instances which reference
the current instance,
- Or the sub references, which are the instances which are referenced
by the current instance.
Example: If you search
for the sub references of a Program, you can see all the instances
that this Program calls, down to the finest level: Data Structures,
Segments, and Data Elements. Moreover, the sub references always include
the Library which contains the generation parameters of the instance.
Example: If you search for the super references
of a Data Element, you can see all the instances which call this Data
Element, up to the highest level (Segments, Data Structures, Programs,
Screens, Database Blocks).
The reference search also
applies to the generated COBOL files.
If you right-click on
an instance in the reference tree, you can:
- Open its editor or COBOL file.
- Load the required projects for this design
instance. You can then limit the number of the componenets to be loaded
into your local workspace in order to be able to work on the instance.
- Search for its own super references or
sub references, which are then in turn displayed in the References view.
The
Rational Team Concert Server
References view contains a toolbar which can be used to:
- Cancel the current search (
).
- View the previous reference searches (
). Click the arrow associated with
the icon to display a menu which contains: - The previous instances from which you requested a reference search.
Select one of these instances to see its references in the view.
- The History choice. This choice opens a
window which shows the previous instances from which you requested
a reference search. From this window, you can:
- Select an instance and display its references (Open or Open
in new view) or remove this instance from the history
(Remove),
- Change the number of instances displayed in the history (10 is
the default) by clicking the Configure link.
- The Clear History choice,
to remove all the previous searches from the history.
- Switch from the super references to the sub references of the
current instance (
),
- Switch from the sub references to the super references of the
current instance (
).
- Modify the way the instances are shown in this view. Click the
white triangle (View menu) in the toolbar and
select:
- Top Level Elements to indicate which element
type constitutes the top of the hierarchy in the tree: folders (default.
They are represented by the entity types), packages or projects.
- Sort to specify a new sort criterion: by
name, package or project.
- Display to
display additional information about each instance line in the tree:
package, project, label and relation, or relation only. You can combine
the four choices. If you want to remove one of the selected information
from the line, select it again in the menu.
Note: The relation is
the name of the link between the source instance and the target. If
this link occurs more than once (for example: if a Program calls the
same Segment several times), the occurred number is displayed in parentheses,
next to the relation name.
This new setting is then automatically saved and associated with
this view, until you change it again.