Use the Custom Toolbar
The custom toolbar can be used with the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client. Buttons on the toolbar start tool applications that are usually written for your organization by the consultants. The tools are often time-saving applications that access the StarTeam Server and perform multi-step operations that you do routinely.
The toolbar buttons can be displayed at the view level or per-component. For example, you might see buttons while using the change request component but not when using the file component. When you see a component-level button, the tool it represents may also appear on the item menu for that component. For example, if a tool named MyTool appears on the custom toolbar when you use the change request component, the Change Request menu usually has a submenu named Tools with MyTool as one of its menu commands. Some tools have representations that are only appropriate in the toolbar and not the menu.
Which users can see these toolbar buttons is controlled by the access rights on the .tool.xml files (for example, mytool.tool.xml) that are checked in to application folders located in the server configuration’s StarFlow Extensions project. The folders use the same folder scheme as the workflow and APE form files.
If changes are made to the tools or the contents of the toolbar, you are unaware of those changes until you reopen the project view in which they are used. If an error occurs as a tool is placed on the toolbar, an error-message toolbar button appears on the toolbar. Clicking the button displays the errors encountered by the toolbar on startup.