Including the Inventory of Child Projects on the Inventory View

When you have selected to focus on a specific Code Insight project in the Inventory view, you have the option to include the inventory for the child projects of the selected project.

A child project is a project dependent on another project. For example, the project for an application that your company is developing might be associated with modules for which you have created separate projects to track the specific OSS and third-party components found in their codebases. To help you keep track of the project relationships, Code Insight lets you identify these dependent projects, such as those for the modules, as child projects to the main application project (called a parent project). For more information about creating a project hierarchy, see Identifying Child Projects for a Project.

If you have identified child projects for the project currently selected for the Inventory view, you can include the inventory for the child projects in the view. In this way, you can examine the inventory found across the project codebases for all parts of your software project, including its dependencies and sub-modules.

Note that by selecting to include inventory from child projects, all child projects associated with the current top-level project will be recursively included in your inventory items list.

To include inventory for child projects of the project selected for the Inventory view, do the following:

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Open the Inventory view. See Opening the Inventory View.

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In the dropdown list at the top of the view, choose Select Project and then choose the project on whose inventory you want to focus the view.

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Select Include Inventory items for child projects in the top right of the Inventory view.

The view is refreshed to include the inventory of all child projects (recursively) of the project in focus.

In the entry for each inventory item of a child project, the hierarchy icon is displayed next to the project link in the Project column.

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To view a hierarchy description of each parent of the child project, click .

The following shows an example of the hierarchy description for child project with two parents.