5.1.4.3. Diving into a Project¶

One way to explore a project is the Projects Menu in the top left corner of the Navigation Area. The Project Menu has an entry for every configured project that the current user has access to.

The partially filtered :guielement:`Projects` menu. — The partially filtered `Projects` menu.¶

Once a project is selected, the Navigation Area reveals the Project Pages Menu giving access to various project specific pages. Some of the entries in it might not be visible depending on your permissions.

The available entries are:

Dashboard: The main page of every project.
Index: A file browser for browsing project specific files.
Trend: A page dedicated to the development over time resp. Graphical Analysis of the project using various metrics.
Issue Counts: A different view for looking at the development over time of issue counts.
Tags: Allows those having the permissions to manage issue tags available in the project.
Issue Table: The Issue Table that can show the detailed list of issues in a version or the differences between two versions.
Download IR: Allows downloading the latest IR
Download RFG: Allows downloading the latest RFG
Generate Report: Allows generating a report for the current project

Dashboard Page¶

The default project page is the Dashboard. It gives more detailed insight on the analysis results of a specific project as well as trends and allows access to further project specific aspects.

The Dashboard page consists of several gadgets that can be rearranged and configured by holders of the Manage Portal permission using the button in the lower right corner.

There are several available gadget types:

Links: Gives access to Issue Counts, Trend, Index and allows downloading the latest IR and RFG file if the analysis was configured (IR, RFG) to preserve them. It also offers an option to create a report from the current project.
Version History: Provides a list of the existing project versions that were analyzed.
Latest Changes: Gives a quick, per issue kind overview of the differences between the last two analyzed versions.
Trend Chart: Shows the development of the absolute, per issue kind issue counts. The individual issue kinds can be deactivated to optimize the y-axis for the display of the remaining plot curves.
Custom Visualization: Allows for Python Visualization scripts to be included in order to render custom content derived by querying the Python Dashboard API.

Trend Page¶

The Trend displays charts containing the development of metric values over time. The basic selection of available metrics is configured globally by the dashboard administrator.

You can choose to see only a subset of these charts by selecting them in the filter panel next to the version range selector where you can reduce the range of versions to display.

Issue Counts¶

The Issue Counts view summarizes the change in the erosion issue count: How many erosion issues are new and how many have been resolved. This is quite similar to what is available in the Overview tooltips. However, one can choose the version range as well as restrict the information to a specific user.