AccuRev Desktop Help

This guide documents the AccuRev desktop interface (GUI). It provides the content for the AccuRev context-sensitive help.

This guide is intended for end users and administrators who use the AccuRev GUI in the performance of their jobs. It is not meant to be a tutorial—we assume that you have had some form of AccuRev training.

See the AccuRev Installation and Release Notes for installation procedures and any late-breaking information about the current release.

Section	Description
Overview	Describes the AccuRev on-line help mechanism and its organization and features.
Using the AccuRev Desktop UI	Provides a high-level view of the AccuRev GUI.
The File Browser	Describes in detail how to use AccuRev’s features to work with your files.
The StreamBrowser	Describes in detail AccuRev’s unique stream architecture for organizing your work.
The History Browser	Describes how to use AccuRev to view the past operations that have been performed on your files.
The Version Browser	Describes AccuRev’s graphical browser for viewing versions, the streams and workspaces where they reside, and the relations between them.
Diff, Merge, Patch, and the Change Palette	Explains how to view the differences between versions of your files, how to merge those differences, and how to use the AccuRev’s unique Change Palette to cross-promote elements to specific streams.
Security	Describes features such as file locking, stream locking, access control lists (ACLs), and other ways of controlling accessing to your data.
AccuWork	Describes AccuRev’s tightly integrated issue tracking feature.
The Schema Editor (Administrators Only)	Explains the GUI utility that administrators use to design and customize AccuWork forms.
Support and Troubleshooting	Explains how to contact AccuRev Customer Support, provides discussions of some commonly-encountered issues, and also describes how to configure various web browsers to work with AccuRev on-line help.