The Work pane displays different
types of information for projects, tasks, project groupings, baselines,
folders, folder templates, processes, process rules, or releases that
you select in a variety of ways.
The following are ways that you can display objects in the Work pane.
- Select the appropriate object from one of the explorers.
- If you have already viewed the object once in the Work pane,
click the tab displaying the name of the object. See Managing tabs in the Work pane for
details about viewing objects.
- In any dialog box where you can select a project,
task, project grouping, baseline, folder, folder template, process,
process rule, or release, right-click over the appropriate object
and select Show.
- Enter a project name in the Show Project dialog
box to open it in the Work pane.
In addition to displaying different types of information
for objects, the Work pane offers two ways
to organize and access information.
- The object menu, shown below, enables you to perform
actions on the object shown in the Work pane.
This is especially helpful when you are viewing other aspects of an
object (for example, working in the Work Area tab
for a project) and the project members are not showing. You can still
copy the project, look at its history, and so on without switching
back to the Members tab.

- The tab bar, shown below, organizes the different
kinds of information you can view for an object in the Work pane.
Beyond organization, the information in each tab enables you to perform
operations for a variety of objects without explicitly opening a specific
dialog box. For example, if you want to change the work area path
for a project, you can click the Work Area tab
and perform the change immediately.
See Showing properties in the Work pane to learn about the kinds of information you
can view for an object in the Work pane.