Information Pane

The contents of this pane are based on the current selection in any of the other panes. It gives more details about the currently selected object(s) and also, dependent on the object, provides shortcut links to some of the most common Version Control actions.

These actions are in the form of Hyperlinks and are initially displayed closed up to allow more object information to be displayed:

Clicking on the Options hyperlink will expand the list of actions:

The list of actions will be depend on the currently selected objects, but normally includes:

Get the latest version of this <object>
Clicking this will display the Get dialog box before performing a Get on the selected objects.

Open (& Get) this <object>
Clicking this link will display the Get dialog before performing a Get on the selected objects and opening the files in the relevant editors (based on file extension associations defined in Windows Explorer).

If you do not want the Get dialog to be displayed, and simply want Team Coherence to get the latest version and open the files, then make sure that Show Get dialog when using 'Open' link is unchecked in the Tools/Options dialog box.

Work with this <object>
Clicking this link will display the Checkout dialog before performing a Checkout on the selected objects and opening the files in the relevant editors (based on file extension associations defined in Windows Explorer).

If you do not want the Checkout dialog to be displayed, and simply want Team Coherence to checkout the latest version and open the files, then make sure that Show Checkout dialog when using 'Work with' link is unchecked in the Tools/Options dialog box.

Check your changes in
Clicking this link will display the Checkin dialog before checking the current selection in.

View <object> properties
Displays the property dialog associates with the current selection

View Differences
Displays the relevant difference viewer to show differences between two revisions of a file, or between the latest revision and the workfile.