Item Views Menu
The Views menu provides access to:
| • | Open Relate - Opens the Relate panel on the right-side of the Detail area. |
| • | Impact Analysis - A separate window that displays the various Items that are related to the Item. |
| • | Hide Item Details - Setting that determines whether the Item Widgets (sub-tabs at the bottom of the detail area) are visible. |
Item Actions Menu
The Actions menu provides access to:
| • | Duplicate Item - Creates a new Item that can be optionally related to the selected Item. |
| • | Lock Item - Locks the item from being edited by other users. |
| • | Find Me – Clicking on Find Me opens the Explorer view and places the selected Item into focus. This is helpful if you’ve navigated to an Item from search results, Filter results or Tags and want to know the location of the Item within the Explorer view. |
| • | Email Link – The Email Link opens a new email (using your default email client) pre-populated with a link to the current Item. |
| • | Subscribe - Setting on the individual Item that determines whether an email is sent to you when the Item is updated. |
Item Widgets
Each Item in Contour has a sub-tab section for accessing related content. The Administrator will configure the needed widgets for each Item Type.
| • | Comments - Tab contains comments about the selected Item. |
| • | Links - URLs for the Item. |
| • | Tags - Tags for Item categorization. |
| • | Versions - Every time the Item is Saved and Committed a new version is created. |
| • | Test Results - Contains results of Automated and Manual tests. |
| • | Selenium - Automated web testing tool that can be integrated with Contour. |
| • | Activities - A list of all the updates on the Item. This includes the Item versions as well as any Comments and Relationships involving the Item. |
Changing Item Document Keys or IDs
All items contain a unique identifier called a document key, referenced as ID when you view the item. This identifier is a composition of 3 keys: the project key, the set key, and a number. ex:PROJ-SET-32
Item document keys can be reconfigured by changing the project key, changing the set key, or by re-numbering. When creating a Set item users are provided the option to specify a set key (the key defaults to the key configured in the item type). Users can rename the key by using the context menu of a Set. Clicking the "Regernate Item IDs" option will force all items in the Set to use the new set key and renumber the items.
Converting an Item
Right clicking or accessing the context menu of an item in Contour allows users to convert items to other item types. Note that only valid conversions will display in the list.
| • | Component Conversions - An empty component can be converted to a Set of any item type. |
| • | Set Conversions - An empty Set at the 1st level of the project hierarchy can be converted to a Component. An empty Set at any level can be converted to another Set of any item type. |
| • | Folder Conversions - Folders can always be converted to a regular item that matches the item type of the Set container. |
| • | Item Conversions - Regular items can be converted to folders or text items. Special Case 1: regular items which are sub-items of another regular item can not be converted to a folder unless the parent is converted first. Special Case 2: regular items with sub-items can not be converted to text items. |
| • | Text Items - Text items can be converted to any item type depending on where it exists the hierarchy tree. |
Recursive Conversion
When converting an item to a folder or when converting a folder to an item there is an option at the bottom of the window to recursively convert all similar items. This option will convert all "parent items" at every level beneath the item being converted to the selected conversion type.
Note: When converting to a folder, items will lose functionality of certain widgets and all custom field values.
