About the Available Contexts for the Inventory View
The following describe the three major contexts that are available for the Inventory view. You can switch between contexts as needed:
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Context |
Description |
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My Projects |
Shows all published inventory across those Code Insight projects in which you are assigned a role. You might use this context to show areas where you need to provide review or remedial work, or you might want to review the overall state of inventory found in your projects. This is the context enabled by default when you open the Inventory view. |
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All Projects |
Shows all published inventory across all projects in your Code Insight system. This context is helpful in visualizing trends in your company’s use of open- source and third-party code in its software projects. |
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Selected Project |
Shows all published inventory for a selected Code Insight project. Since projects represent versions of a particular software product, this view allows you to see all inventory items for that product. Furthermore, you can also opt to list the inventory for all child projects of the selected project. These child projects represent modules used by your top-level product. You can directly link to the inventory item of the child project or to the child project itself. You can also view the parent hierarchy of the child project to understand the provenance of the inventory items. See Including the Inventory of Child Projects on the Inventory View for details. |
When you switch to a different context, any filtering criteria that you have selected on the Advanced Inventory Search dialog remains in effect. See Filtering the Inventory View by Inventory Details for more information about setting this criteria.