If you create a snapshot view on your UNIX® workstation or Windows® computer, the view is registered for you to access. However, if you are trying to access your snapshot view from another location, you must first register it for that location.
The Views page in Rational® ClearCase® Explorer provides access to the views that you create with the Join Project wizard or View Creation wizard. By default, Rational ClearCase Explorer places all base Rational ClearCase views that you own on the General tab of the Views page. For UCM views, Rational ClearCase Explorer creates a page for each project that you join and places views on the associated project page.
The title bar shows the location of the view in your computer namespace. Any command you issue from Rational ClearCase Explorer that requires a path uses the path displayed in the title bar.
To access other views and register a snapshot view from Rational ClearCase Explorer (for example, to access a team member's view), add a view shortcut to the Views page. You can add a view shortcut to any Windows snapshot view that you can access through the Windows file system. To add a shortcut to a team member's view, the view owner must make the root directory of the view a shared network resource. You cannot add shortcuts to a snapshot view created from a UNIX host.
Because a snapshot view is a directory tree in a standard file system (plus some hidden, administrative files), you can access it as you would access any other directory tree in a file system.
You can access someone else's snapshot view from Windows Explorer as you would access any other directory on another computer. If the directory owner has shared the directory and set up the proper permissions, use My Network Places or Network Neighborhood to access the view.
You can access someone else's snapshot view as you would access any other directory on another workstation. If you can access the other workstation and the directory owner has set up the proper permissions, use the cd command to access the view.