Marking Item Threads Read or Unread

You can display requirement, task, and topic components in either a list display or hierarchical format. StarTeam provides a default view for requirement, task, and topic components in a hierarchical structure. When you select to view the hierarchical structure, each new item becomes the root of a tree. Its branches are child requirements, sub-tasks to the parent task, or responses to the topic. Children of children requirements, sub-tasks of sub-tasks, and responses to responses form additional branches. When an item thread is unread, the textual information about the item thread displays in bold text in upper pane. When an item thread is read, the item thread displays in normal text in the upper pane.

The main menu or context menu commands enable you to mark item threads as read or unread to better track these components.

To designate item threads as read or unread for requirement, task, and topic components, do the following:

1. Select a topic thread in the upper pane.

   Tip: To select multiple threads, display the information in list format by clicking the List Display button in the toolbar.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Choose Mark Thread as Read to remove the bold format for the item thread.
   • Choose Mark Thread as Unread to add bold format for the item thread.