A typical workspace navigation menu looks like the following screenshot. Observe the icons on the navigation bar and the workspace canvas beneath. As you open new workspace panels, an icon for each is added to the navigation menu and a panel with the function is opened on the canvas. You may click on any of the icons to bring the panel represented to the top of your workspace. The workspace may occupy a space wider and higher than both your browser window and your computer screen. Scrolling across the virtual space is permitted. You may drag a panel off the visible portion of the workspace and leave it there. Clicking the panel's icon in the navigation bar results in the panel becoming visible, wherever it is on the canvas, and coming to the front of all other panels.
Workspace navigation
The Workspace Menu
When you access the Workspace Menu by moving your mouse over the first button on the navigation bar, you are shown a panel that allows the following to take place. Not all the options will be available, if your adminstrator has not granted you access.
Workspace Menu
- A drilldown box into which you can enter one or more issue ID's. When you press Enter, a detailed view of these issues will be opened. If you are entering multiple issue ID's, then separate them by semi-colons
- A select list that allows you to change your current role
- A select list that allows you to change your current business area and current project
- A link which allows you to save the current workspace. Open panels and their positions are saved. You must provide a title to your saved workspace. If you check the prompt by Set as your current workspace then the workspace becomes the one first opened when you enter ExtraView
- A link which allows you to Save Workspace under a different name. Open panels and their positions within the current workspace are saved. You must provide a title to your saved workspace. In addition, you may select a different role and/or a different Business Area and Project for the new workspace. If you check the prompt by Set as your current workspace then the workspace becomes the one first opened when you enter ExtraView
- A link to close your workspace. If you have more than one workspace open, then the browser window containing the workspace is closed for all the secondary workspaces opened after the first one (known as the primary workspace). If you close the primary workspace, you are returned to the standard interface
- A list of all workspaces that you have saved. Each workspace entry has an informative link and three buttons:
Workspace navigation
Note that if you have set a workspace as the default, its title will appear in bold, and there will not be a delete button. If you want to delete a workspace that has been set as the default, save another workspace as the default once, then delete the original one.
- If you place your mouse over the arrow at the left of its title, you will see information such as the role, Business Area and Project to which the workspace belongs
- If you click on the title, or the first button, the workspace is loaded into the current window, replacing the current workspace
- The second button loads the workspace into a new browser window or tab
- The third button allows you to delete the workspace
- A link to Tile Open Panels. The open panels will be sized so that they are all visible, and occupy the complete area of the browser window
- A link to Cascade Open Panels. The panels are arranged from the top left-hand corner down towards the bottom right-hand corner
- The Minimize / Restore Panels button will toggle all panels off, and then on again when the link is chosen a second time. When the panels are minimized, you can open any panel from its button on the navigation bar
- A link to Edit Your Account Details. When you choose this, you can modify your details, after entering your password
- A link About ExtraView. This link will show you copyright information, as well as specific information about the version of ExtraView that you are using
Managing Panels
Each panel that opens will have small icons at the top-right hand corner that perform functions specific to that panel when they are pressed. All panels have icons to minimize, maximize and close the panel. The remaining icons are used to perform tasks such as update, delete, run, etc. All icons have a help tip which is seen by holding your mouse over the button.
Managing workspace panels
Each open panel has a corresponding icon placed in the navigation bar, to the right of the main navigation bar icons. At any time, you may click on one of the icons and the panel to which it corresponds will jump to the front of all other panels. If the panel is out of range of the browser window, the workspace is scrolled so that the panel becomes fully visible. Note that if you place your mouse cursor over an icon, you will see the title of the panel to which it corresponds.
Navigating through open panels
If you double-click on the title bar of a panel, then the panel is maximized, if you double-click again on the title bar, the panel is restored to its original size.
