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 various 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 enables you to perform actions on
the object shown in the Work pane. This menu
is helpful when you view aspects of an object (for example, working
in the Work Area tab for a project) and 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 organizes the different kinds of information
you can view for an object in the Work pane.
Beyond organization, use the information in tabs to perform operations
for various objects without explicitly opening a specific dialog box.
For example, if you want to change the work area path for a project,
you can perform the change in the Work Area tab.
See Showing properties in the Work pane to
learn about the kinds of information you can view for an object in
the Work pane.