Overview

This tool mentor describes how to navigate Rational ProjectConsole using the sample work products that are installed with it. ProjectConsole automates the generation of project work products so you can create them quickly and accurately.

This section provides links to additional information related to this tool mentor.

ProjectConsole capitalizes on Java applet technologies to provide you with familiar and multiple forms of navigation.  If you click directly on the text of a tree control node the work product page associated with that node is displayed.  If you expand a tree control node by clicking on the node's plus-sign, then hyperlinks that would be displayed by clicking on the text of the node are displayed as child nodes, from which you can continue navigating.

This tool mentor is applicable when using Microsoft Internet Explorer (release 5.5 or greater)  or Netscape (release 7.0 or later).

Tool Steps

To browse project work products using ProjectConsole:

1. Launch a browser.
2. Enter the URL for your installation's ProjectConsole site. The URL can be obtained by contacting your ProjectConsole administrator. The ProjectConsole logon screen is displayed.
3. Enter a valid user id and password on this logon screen. The ProjectConsole work product browser is displayed.
4. Expand the following nodes: ProjectConsole, ClassicsCD.com Projects, Point of Sale (POS), Functional Teams, Management, Release 1.0, Sensitive Information, Measurement Reports, All Published Measures, Functional Teams.
5. Click on the text of any of the nodes under Functional Teams to access metrics for that team.
6. Additional work products can be found by expanding the following nodes: ClassicsCD.com Projects, Webshop, Release 1.0, RUP Disciplines, Project Management, Sensitive Information, All Published Measures, Release 1.0. Expand the nodes of any of the phases to access metrics for that phase.
7. Navigate the ProjectConsole metrics by clicking the Dashboard icon on the Rational ProjectConsole tool bar.

Note: The reports displayed by ProjectConsole are sample templates created using the Rational ProjectConsole Template Builder, and the published charts are created within the ProjectConsole Dashboard.