The Administration Console User Interface

This topic describes the Dimensions CM Administration Console user interface.

In this topic:

- Main_Window

- Specific_Function_Window

- Program_Bar

- Status_Area

Main Window

The Administration Console main window provides links to the administrative tools, which are grouped together by overall functionality.

The following table describes the main administration areas in the Administration Console.

Area | Description
Configuration Object Management | Defines the behavior and characteristics of Dimensions CM objects. It includes defining object types and the attributes and lifecycles the objects will follow to suit your process model.
Product Administration | Defines the products in your base database and their design part structure, or functional breakdown. It also includes other configuration options that are defined at product level, such as valid sets governing object attributes, and baseline and release templates.
Users and Roles | Enables you to register Dimensions CM users and groups and to define roles. You can then assign the privileges to perform specific Dimensions CM functions, and control which functions people can use. You can also set up email notifications for specific events and users, and User Interface Profiles that determine the functions a user can access in the Dimensions CM clients.
Distributed Development | Defines how Dimensions CM operates in a distributed network environment. It includes the definition and assignment of work, deployment and library cache areas, network administration, and the build administration for the Dimensions CM common build component. You can also manage replication as well as archives and transfers responsible for archiving parts of a base database and transferring Dimensions CM data from one database to another.
Database Management | Enables you to view connection pooling statistics for Dimensions CM databases and define reports that can be available to users. You can also configure certain database options, such as whether to use projects or streams, whether to use requests, or to use external requests along with native Dimensions CM requests.

Each administration area includes the following options.

Tool | Description
Configuration Object Management
Object type definitions | Enables you to add and manage objects types for a particular product.
Lifecycles | Enables you to add and manage lifecycles.
Data format & MIME types | Enables you to add and manage data formats and MIME types.
Version branch names | Enables you to add and manage version branch names in the base database.
Upload rules | Enables you to manage upload rules for Dimensions CM, IDEs, and IDE projects.
Preservation policies | Enables you to define how different types of build targets are preserved in Dimensions CM.
Product Administration
Product definitions | Enables you to add and manage products in the base database.
Design part structure | Enables you to add and manage design parts within the current product.
Valid set definitions | Enables you to add and manage valid sets and assign them to attributes.
Baseline & release templates | Enables you to add and manage baseline and release templates in the base database.
Users and Roles
User & group registration | Enables you to add and manage users in the base database.
Role definitions | Enables you to add and manage roles in the base database.
Role assignments | Enables you to assign roles to users and manage current role assignments. You can make assignments from the user, role, or design part perspective.
Privilege assignments | Specifies which users, groups, or roles can perform which operations.
Mail events | Defines events that cause email messages to be sent and specifies which users or groups they are sent to.
User interface profiles | Enables you to select which features in the client tools are visible to a specified user or group.
Distributed Development
Areas and deployment | Enables you to define file areas on Dimensions CM network nodes, and area filters. You can also define deployment areas and assign them to a stage in the Global Stage Lifecycle.
Build administration | Enables you to add and manage build projects.
Remote jobs | Enables you to list the remote jobs in the job queue, to view their logs, and to edit and delete jobs in the queue.
Network administration | Enables you to add and manage network nodes and client/server connections.
Replication administration | Enables you to add and manage configurations for replicating items in projects and baselines, and requests, and to review replication logs.
Archives & transfers | Enables you to review the contents of archives and baseline transfers.
Database Management
Connection pooling statistics | Enables you to monitor database connection pooling information.
User reports administration | Enables you to add and manage user report definitions.
Request providers | Enables you to integrate external request providers, such as Atlassian Jira, Micro Focus ALM Octane, or Micro Focus SBM, to use their requests along with native Dimensions CM requests.
Database options | Enables you to set database options such as whether to allow access to streams and/or projects.

Specific Function Window

When you access a specific function in the Administration Console, the window consists of the following areas:

Menu Area. Contains a set of buttons that allow you to perform various operations on the objects in the content pane.

Navigation Area. Contains icons in a tree structure. You can expand the tree and select the nodes beneath it. Selecting an icon either displays a list of the objects that are contained beneath one of these nodes, or the details of an individual Dimensions object in the content pane.

Content Area. Contains either details of a list of objects in a table or more comprehensive details about a specific object.

Status Area. Contains icons and links relating to what you have currently selected and that you can change by clicking the icons or links. See Status_Area.

Program Bar. Contains the Help, Log Out, and Home options. See Program_Bar.

Program Bar

The program bar, located in the upper-right corner of the Administration Console main window, contains the following options:

Button | Function
Help | Clicking the Help link launches the online help, which contains procedural and reference information on the Administration Console features. Clicking the list button allows you to select: E-Learning Tutorials. Takes you to a page where there is a selection of on-line tutorials. Customer Support. Takes you to the support site. About this Application. Displays details on the version.
Log out | Logs you out of the Administration Console.
Home | This button is displayed if you are in a submenu. Click the link to return to the Administration Console main window. Click the list button to view a window containing a list of all the functions in the Administration Console. Click one of the names to take you to that function in a single click.

Status Area

When you click a tool, the tool's main window contains a status area at the bottom of the window.

The status area contains the following options:

Icon | Description
User name and Preferences link | The user ID of the user currently logged in. Click the Preferences link to display the Set User Preferences dialog box.
Product name | The name of the current product. You can click the icon to change the current product. NOTE When you log in to the Administration Console under your user, the current product will be the last one you have previously set under that user.
Database | The name of the base database currently accessed.
Passwords Link | Click this link to display the Passwords dialog box to change a user password.

Related Topics

Administration Console Login Page