The ITP/MDK Repository main window

When you start the ITP/MDK Repository, the main window appears:

The main window consists of four panes:

  1. The Tree-view is on the left. All elements of the ITP/MDK Repository are placed in a hierarchical tree in this pane. All navigation through the ITP/MDK Repository takes place in this pane. By clicking the + in front of an object, this object is opened and its connections are shown in the shape of folders. The last node in the tree will not open in the tree-view but its content is shown in the content pane when it is selected. How much detail is shown in the tree is controlled by the Show details item in the View menu.
  2. The Content Pane on the right represents the object selected in the tree-view and shows it content. In this case the 'intereng' document.
    You can multi-select items in this pane by using the control or shift key in normal Microsoft Windows fashion. In this way it is possible to perform an action on more than one item. For instance adding a description to all documents in a folder or saving all documents' [current] revisions in a folder to your file system.
    It is possible to sort the list in this pane by clicking on the header Name. By clicking on the Revision column header the list can be ordered according to revision numbers.
  3. The Description Pane on the bottom. This pane displays the description of a selected project, folder, document, DID project or DID in the main window. The texts cannot be edited in this pane, instead use the Set Description, context menu item.
  4. The Labels Pane on the bottom. This pane is only shown when a document (revision) or a model (revision) has been selected. It displays the labels that have been assigned to the document, model or DID revisions. If an object is selected that cannot carry a label, this pane is grayed out and it will show Not applicable.

The Status Bar is used to show the current user in the left corner. This is useful because it is possible to open more than one ITP/MDK Repository window and log on using several user names. It is also possible to log on as a user and as the administrator at the same time.
Next to the current user, F5 is sometimes shown. The appearance of F5 indicates that another user has made a change to the ITP/MDK Repository. To see that change F5 (refresh) must be pressed. If it is ignored the refresh will take place automatically after a couple of minutes.