Rational® Engineering
Lifecycle Manager was enhanced with new and updated features, which
make the product more flexible and easier to use.
The following features were added or enhanced in this release.
- Changes were made to enhance usability and features of creating a view.
- You can now easily identify a view container that was created using artifact
elements versus view elements.
When editing a view, it was difficult to distinguish
between a view element container and an artifact element container. The following
image shows the artifact element icon that is displayed when the cursor moves over
an artifact element container.

- New predefined sample artifact elements were added to Shared
Views. After an administrator deploys the Artifact Elements package, any
user can run the sample artifact elements and edit them to customize the artifacts
that are displayed in the views.
See Deploying a content package.
- A Query field was added to the artifact element
Container properties, which gives administrative users the
ability to edit the artifact element.
- An Edit menu was added to the Artifact Element
Palette to open the Artifact Element Editor.
- A Hide predefined actions check box was added to the
Nodes dialog box. A view creator can check this box to hide
predefined actions (such as Open Artifact, Show Query) from being included in the
context menu.
- You can now set custom hover definitions in the Nodes dialog
box Hover Definition tab. You can then hover over the
appropriate artifact in a view to see the rich text.
- In the view editor, copy, paste, or delete a container by using icons in the icon
bar or control-c to copy and control-v to paste. Select multiple containers to delete
by clicking the first container and then shift-clicking or control-clicking each
container thereafter.
- A date picker is now available in fields that require a date to be set in the
Assign Values to Query Parameters dialog box. View the date
picker by clicking the list box arrow.
- An asterisk now notifies users that a parameter is mandatory in the Set
parameter value for the view dialog box.
- When building a view, if you right-click an artifact in the view and choose control+
Open Artifact, Show Query, or
Start Analysis, the operations start in a new tab by
default.
- If a parameter, such as ${title}, is specified as a text value, the
corresponding node now shows the evaluated parameter value, such as
Requirement 502.
- Changes were made to the Products screens.