4. The StreamBrowser : Opening a StreamBrowser Tab

Opening a StreamBrowser Tab
You can open a StreamBrowser tab to display the streams of the current depot in any of these ways:
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Choose View > Streams from the GUI main menu.
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Click the View Streams button on the GUI main toolbar.
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Choose View > Streams from the context menu of a depot on a Depots tab.
If there is no current depot, AccuRev prompts you to select one.
StreamBrowser Tab Layout
You can use the StreamBrowser in any of the following display modes, which you select using buttons on the StreamBrowser toolbar:
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Graphical mode: displays the depot's stream hierarchy as a tree (root node at the upper left)
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Tabular mode: displays a table containing the depot's streams, snapshots, and workspaces, initially sorted by stream name.
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Graphical/tabular mode: both of the above -- the tab is divided into a graphical pane (above) and a tabular pane (below). A movable separator bar enables you to adjust the space allocation to the panes.
You can have any number of StreamBrowser tabs open at the same time, each for a different depot.
You can also open multiple StreamBrowser tabs on the same depot, by invoking the Clone Tab command on the context menu of the tab control.
 
Graphical StreamBrowser Display
The graphical display of a depot's stream hierarchy is organized as follows:
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Dynamic streams with no basis time and pass-through streams, in alphabetical order (capitalized stream names appear first, followed by stream names starting with the characters [, \, ], ^, _, and `, followed by non-capitalized stream name)
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dynamic ("normal") stream
time-based dynamic stream
workspace stream
snapshot (static stream)
pass-through stream
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Each stream or workspace that has active elements (that is, a non-empty default group) is displayed with a special control that opens and closes a subwindow showing the activity's details. See The Default Group of a Workspace or Stream on page 135 for a general discussion of the default group.
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Each stream can have a lock, which prevents certain operations involving that stream from being performed.
If a lock exists on a stream, a special control appears, which provides access to The Locks Dialog Box on page 53.
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Each stream may be associated with a workflow, available through the optional AccuRev Workflow Edition. If workflow rules have been set for a stream (done in the AccuRev Web UI), a workflow icon appears.
See "Using Workflow to Manage Issues" in the AccuRev® Web Interface User’s Guide, Version 2012.1 or later for information about AccuRev Workflow.
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Each stream may be mapped to a branch in a Git repository, via the optional AccuRev Kando™ product. If a stream is mapped to a Git branch, a Kando icon appears.
See the AccuRev Kando documentation for more information
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If you have set a Stream Filter, or limited the StreamBrowser display, only a subset of the streams in the depot appear. The Stream Filter is applied first; then the other display restrictions are used to further restrict the set of streams shown. Streams appearing in the filter are marked with a star () in graphical and tabular modes.
Tabular StreamBrowser Display
In tabular display mode, the StreamBrowser tab contains a table listing some or all of the current depot’s streams (including snapshots and workspaces). If you have used the global stream filter to restrict the display, only the stream paths and children (if any) for the selected streams appear in the table. (A stream path is a subset of the stream hierarchy that starts at the root stream and ends at the stream being referenced. )
The checkboxes and list box at the bottom of the tab work the same way as in graphical mode to control which streams are included in the table. The StreamBrowser’s tabular mode offers the same commands (toolbar and context menus) as the graphical mode.
See also: Working with Tables on page 9

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