Selecting Items

Purpose

Select items when you want to perform operations on them, such as checking them in or out, or when you want to view item properties or attributes. By default, an Items list shows only the latest item revisions for your current project/stream.

You can select any revision of an item to preview it, get a copy of it, or check it out. If you check out a revision to edit it, the next revision is allocated according to your process model rules.

To select an item:

Do one of the following:

To select from your Inbox, In the Global Inbox window, select the Items node.
To select items from your Inbox related to the current project/stream, In the My Current Project/Stream window, expand the Inbox icon and select the Items node.
To select from items in a project/stream folder, in the My Current Project/Stream window, click the Folders and Items icon. Expand the folder tree in the content pane and select a folder icon.
To select from items in a design part, From the Global Catalog window, or the My Current Project/stream window, expand the design part tree, navigate to the design part and select the design part icon.
To select from all items in a product, in the Global Catalog navigation window, select the Items node. Complete the Select Product and Design Part to Open dialog box to select which items to list.
To select from all items in a project/stream, in the My Current Project/Stream window, expand the Catalog node and select the Items node.

In an Items list, do one of the following:

To select a single item, click the icon: next to the item or click anywhere in the row containing the item.
To select multiple items, Ctrl+click each item.
To select a range of items, click the first item in the range, then SHIFT+click the last item.
To select all items in the list, click column heading.

To select an earlier revision of an item:

NOTE Earlier revisions of an item will only appear if they belong to the project/stream.

In an Items list, click the revision ID.

An arrow appears to the right.

Click the arrow, and then select the revision you want.