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# ALM Common Areas

The ALM masthead, sidebar, and Pinned Items panel are common to all ALM views.

To access | The common areas are available from all ALM views.
Relevant tasks | Start ALM

## Masthead

Displays the current domain, project, and user name and provides buttons for accessing other projects, common tools, and documentation.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element | Description
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| Opens the Quality Insight page, the Global Search tab. See Globally search ALM data.
<Domain, Project> | Displays details of the current domain and project. Click to switch to another open project on the same machine, or to select a different project from the Login window.
<User> | Displays details of the current user.
| Tools menu. Provides commands that you can run from each of the ALM modules. For details, see Tools Menu. Tip: To customize the Tools menu, refer to the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Installation and Upgrade Guide.
| Help on this page. Displays help for the current page.
| Close Project. Logs you out of your current project and returns you to the ALM Login window.

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## Sidebar

This area contains buttons for navigating between ALM views, switching between ALM modules, and accessing various online resources.

Important information | ALM Editions:ALM is also available in several editions which provide subsets of ALM functionality. For information about ALM editions and their functionality, see ALM Editions. To find out what edition of ALM you are using, ask your ALM site administrator. If the sidebar is hidden, click the expand button.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element | Description
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| Opens the ALM landing page. For details, see ALM Homepage.
| Enables you to navigate to your previous/next view in ALM. Tip: Use the Forward button after you navigate to a previous view.
Dashboard | Includes the following modules: Analysis View. Enables you to create graphs, reports, and Excel reports. Dashboard View. Enables you to create dashboard pages, in which you can view multiple graphs in a single display.
Management | Includes the following modules: Releases. Enables you to define releases and cycles for the application management process. Libraries. Enables you to define libraries to track changes in your project, reuse entities in a project, or share entities across multiple projects.
Requirements | Includes the following modules: Requirements. Enables you to manage requirements in a hierarchical tree-structure. Requirements can be linked to other requirements, tests, or defects. Business Models. Enables you to import business process models, and test the quality of the models and their components. Access to this module is dependent on your ALM license.
Testing | Includes the following modules: Test Resources. Enables you to manage test resources in a hierarchical tree-structure. Test resources can be associated with tests. Business Components. Depending on your ALM license, you may also have access to the Business Components module. This module enables subject matter experts to drive the quality optimization process using Business Process Testing. For details, refer to the Micro Focus Business Process Testing User Guide : Business Components Overview . Test Plan. Enables you to develop and manage tests in a hierarchical tree-structure. Tests can be linked to requirements and defects. Test Lab. Enables you to manage and run tests. Lab Management: Build Verification.Enables you to define a suite of automated functional test sets bundled together with a single performance test (called a build verification suite) to provide an end-to-end deployment and testing solution. Lab Management: Timeslots. Enables you to reserve testing resources for the purposes of running a test or for performing maintenance tasks on them. Test Runs. Enables you to analyze the results of test executions.
Lab Resources | Includes the following modules: Testing Hosts. Enables you to manage the allocation and availability of hosts for performance and functional testing. AUT Environments. Enables you to manage AUT environment parameters which can be used for performance and functional testing.
Defects | Enables you to add defects, determine repair priorities, repair open defects, and analyze the data.
Help | Enables you to open additional online Application Lifecycle Management resources. Displays version information for each ALM client component. Tip: To rename, rearrange or delete items in the Help menu, refer to the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Installation and Upgrade Guide.

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## Pinned Items Panel

When you click Pinned Items, a panel opens to display the ALM items you have pinned. You can click a pinned requirement, test, or defect to jump to it quickly.

- To pin a requirement, test, or defect, select it and click the Pin/Unpin button. The item is added to the Pinned Items panel.

- To unpin a pinned requirement, test, or defect, select it and click the Pin/Unpin button, or in the Pinned Items panel, click in the item you want to unpin.

- To hide the Pinned Items panel, move the cursor away from the panel.

For details, see Pin items.

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