At any time, you can "clean up" by closing one or more of the tabs in either of these ways:
The AccuRev GUI assumes that you want to avoid having multiple tabs with the same contents. So, for example, if there's already a File Browser tab on workspace
brass_mnt_john and you execute an
Open Workspace command on the same workspace, the GUI simply brings the existing tab to the front.
If you do want to have two or more tabs showing the same data structure, use the File > Clone Tab command (or choose
Clone Tab from the tab context menu). Cloned tabs enable you, for example, to work in two different parts of a large stream hierarchy (two StreamBrowser tabs), or to work in two different folders of a workspace (two File Browser tabs).
The data displayed on a GUI tab can become out of date as a result of your work on other GUI tabs, your work using the AccuRev CLI, and/or other users' work. AccuRev displays a

"refresh" icon next to the tab title if it determines that the tab's data may be out of date.

The command View > Refresh (or function key
F5, or the main GUI menu toolbar
Refresh icon) updates a tab's data. You can configure the GUI to refresh tab data automatically whenever you switch tabs: invoke the command
Tools > Preferences , and clear the
Require Manual Refresh checkbox.
With a few exceptions, you must be logged in (See “The Login Command” on page 34.) as a particular AccuRev
user in order to execute AccuRev commands. An indicator in the lower left corner of the GUI window shows the
current user (the one who is currently logged in).
Typically, the AccuRev repository is organized into multiple depots. For example, there might be separate depots for the development, testing, and documentation groups. Most GUI tabs display the data from one particular depot. When you're using a particular tab, the associated depot is termed the
current depot. Its name is displayed at the bottom of the GUI window.
Many tabs have a current workspace context: the workspace that is the source of (or the possible destination of) the data that the tab displays. The name of the current workspace is displayed at the bottom of the GUI window, along with the pathname of its
workspace tree.
In a dialog box, you can "press" buttons using Alt key sequences, such as
Alt-C for
Cancel. The
Esc key also performs a
Cancel operation in any dialog box.
In some dialog boxes, you don't even need to use the Alt key when invoking a keyboard accelerator: In a "Yes/No" dialog box, you can type
Y or
N (either uppercase or lowercase). In a message or confirmation box (no input field), you can indicate
Ok by typing
O (either uppercase or lowercase), or by pressing
Enter.
In addition to the Java GUI described in this document, AccuRev also provides a Web User Interface (Web UI) which gives users access to many non-filesystem-based AccuRev features from any supported web browser. The Web UI server must be installed and configured by an AccuRev administrator, who will provide AccuRev users with a web address through which they can access the Web UI functionality.
There are certain views that cannot be opened from the Java GUI in the Web UI. For example, manipulation of files in a local file system cannot be performed from a web browser for security reasons, so while you can get a File Browser web view of a dynamic stream, you cannot bring up a File Browser web view of your workspace. In these cases, you will see the message “URL not available for this view” when you try to use these buttons.
Note: For these features to function, the AccuRev Web UI server must have been installed and configured with your AccuRev server. If your web browser or clipboard show a URL containing the string “null” (for example,
null/stream/1/?view=sb), the AccuRev Web UI server is not available. Information about installing and configuring the AccuRev Web UI server is available to AccuRev administrators in the AccuRev
Installation and Release Notes, the AccuRev
Web Interface Installation and Release Notes, and the AccuRev
Administrator’s Guide.