The main window displays a list of projects that you have access to, a list of queries, and the results of the current query. Using the main window, you can enter new problem reports, update existing problem reports, display lists of problem reports matching specific criteria, search for specific problem reports, print problem reports, generate reports, and perform various administrative tasks.
The Problem Reports menu contains menu items used to manipulate problem reports. There are menu items for creating new problem reports, updating existing problem reports, finding problem reports, printing problem reports, and logging in to other PRepS database. The exit menu choice is also found here.
The Administration menu contains menu items used for basic PRepS administration tasks. There are menu items used for project administration, user administration, problem report attribute administration, and query administration.
The reports menu contains menu items used to generate reports on problem reports.
The help menu currently just contains the menu item used to display the about dialog box.
The most commonly used menu items also appear as buttons on the toolbar.
Used to create new problem reports.
Used to edit existing problem reports.
Used to find existing problem reports.
Used to print existing problem reports.
Used to refresh the display of query results on the main window. PRepS usually refreshes the query results itself. However, there are cases in which you may wish to manually refresh the display. For example, PRepS will not automatically refresh each time you change a project selection. Instead, PRepS expects you to make the project selections you are interested in, and then press the refresh button when you are ready.
Used to exit PRepS.
The project list contains a list of projects that the current user has access to. Selecting projects limits the current query to the selected projects. If no projects are selected, the query is not limited by project, and thus will return qualifying problem reports from any project you have access to.
The currently selected query determines which problem reports are shown in the Selected Problem Reports list. Users can create their own queries. In addition, administrator users can create system queries for use by all users. The query drop down list contains the user defined queries for the current user, followed by the system queries.
This check box determines if inactive projects are shown in the project list. By default, only active project that the current user has access to are shown in the project list. If this check box is checked, then inacitve projects that the current user has access to are also shown.
Use this button to unselect all projects that are currently selected in the project list.
Problem reports matching the current query are displayed here. Clicking the label of a column results in the list being sorted by that column. Clicking on the same column one more time will result in the problem reports being sorted by the same column in the opposite direction.