The tree browser that appears in the left pane of the browser window lets you navigate the topics in the Web site. Initially it contains a set of default trees, or tabbed view panels. 

You can customize navigation by creating own personalized tree views. To start, you save one of the default trees to use as the starting template for your new tree view.  You can then create, customize, or delete topics.

Types of Trees

The tree browser displays two types of trees:

• Default Trees, which are provided when a Web site is published from the IBM Rational Method Composer. Default trees cannot be modified.
  
  
• My View Trees, your own personal views, are created by you and can be modified to display topics that suit your specific process and environment.

The tree browser contains a set of tabbed panels, and each panel contains a tree. This is called a tree panel. The tab on the panel displays the tree browser's title. The titles of the default trees are gray; the title of a customized tree, a My View tree, is gray with a pencil icon, indicating that it is modifiable. When you first open the Web site, the tree browser opens, showing a default tree. (In this example, it is the Team tree.)

The tree panel consists of a toolbar that works on a tree basis, tabs for each tree panel, and a list of topics in each tree panel. The function of each of the tools on the toolbar is explained in the following table.

To	Click
Show the location of the page you are viewing in the tree
Show all trees
Hide all trees except the selected one
Save this tree using a different name
Delete the My View tree you are viewing
Add a new topic to your My View tree
Add an existing topic from the main default tree into your My View tree
View a topic in a tree	Select the tree by clicking the titled tab. Navigate to a topic title in the tree, and then double-click to expand it. The topic content appears to the right of the tree panel.

The tree browser lets you to show and hide trees on other tabs so you can view only those trees that you want.

• To show all the tabs, click .
• To hide all other tabs except the one you are viewing, click .

Showing and hiding tree set states is persistent. The next time you start the Web site, you will see either the tree that you chose or all of the trees, depending on the state you selected the last time you used the Web site.

Creating a My View Tree

You can create an unlimited number of My View trees. The following example shows how to add a modifiable My View tree.

Select the tree that you want to use as the template and click Save As.

Click Team to set it as the template.

The Save As dialog box appears, prompting you for a tree title for your My View tree.
Under Please enter a title for the tree, type the title for your tree (for example, Tutorial RUP ) and click OK.

Tutorial RUP is added to the tree panel as a new tab.

Customizing a My View Tree

You can customize your My View tree and its topics in a number of ways:

Adding a new topic to your My View tree

The Properties Editor dialog box opens. Enter the various properties of this new topic.

Enter the various property values. Note that you can use the browse button on the far right to browse to file locations for local file links and icons.

The new topic is added to end of the tree.

Note: You can also add new topics by dragging files from a file explorer, such as Windows Explorer, onto any topic in the tree. The topic name is initially the file name. You can change it as described in this section.

Changes to your My View tree are saved as they are made.

Add an existing topic from a default tree to a My View tree

This section describes how to copy an existing topic from a default tree into your My View tree.

The Drag and Drop Topic from [default tree] dialog box opens. Drag any topic into your My View tree.

You can also choose the default tree from which to drag topics. Click in the list to select the default tree you want. The tree refreshes with the topics from the selected default tree.

Changes to your My View tree are saved as they are made.

Inserting a new topic

To insert a new topic into an existing one, right-click it. On the pop-up menu, click Insert new. The following example shows the insertion of a new topic (titled New tutorial topic) in Disciplines.

The Properties Editor dialog box opens.

Enter the various properties for this new topic.

The new topic is inserted into Disciplines.

Change the properties of a topic

To change a topic's properties, right-click the topic (for example, Overview). On the pop-up menu, select Properties.

The Properties Editor dialog opens. In this example, the title of the topic Overview will be changed to Changed Overview. For the Name property, type Changed Overview in the Value field, and click Enter. You can also cut and paste text values into the Value fields of this dialog box. Click OK to close this dialog box.

The name is changed on the tree.

Note: The Link to field in the Properties Editor dialog box lets you link to a URL or a file elsewhere in your system.

Move a topic within its parent

The position of a topic can be adjusted within its parent. In this example, the Disciplines topic will be moved up.

Right-click the Disciplines topic. On the pop-up menu, click Move up.

The display changes to show you the new position of the Disciplines topic.

Changes to your My View tree are saved as they are made.

Move a topic outside of its parent

You can move a topic to another tree by using the drag and drop feature.

• To start, click the topic and drag it to the new topic.
• Changes to your My View tree are saved as they are made.

Delete a topic

• To delete a topic, select the one you want to remove and click Delete.
• Changes to your My View tree are saved as they are made.

Change a topic's icon

• To change the icon for any topic listed in the tree browser, drag an icon file onto the topic or use the Properties Editor to change the icon name. An icon file is a .gif, .jpg, or .bmp file. The new icon replaces the old one.
• Changes to your My View tree are saved as they are made.

Deleting a My View Tree

The following figures illustrate how to delete a My View tree.

The Confirm Deletion of Tree dialog box prompts you to confirm the deletion. Answer OK to Delete Tutorial RUP permanently?