Label Decorations Options

Window > Preferences > Team > StarTeam > Label Decorations

Label Decorations show extra information about an item on its label or icon. The preferences enable you customize the text, font, and icons associated with your projects, folders, and files. You can indicate what text label flags you want to use for various file states and which variables should display with files, folders, and projects.

General

Use the options on this page to configure general preferences about the decorators:

Enable color decoration - This option enables color decorations. You can configure the colors used for incoming changes, outgoing changes, invisible folders, and other changes using the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts preference page.

Enable font decoration - This option enables font decorations. You can configure the fonts used for incoming changes, outgoing changes, invisible folders, and other changes using the Colors and Fonts preference page. When you activate Enable font decoration, the application also activates the following options:

• Decorate incoming changes
• Decorate outgoing changes
• Decorate bidirectional changes

Text Decorations

These settings specify how StarTeam information displays on text labels. Use the File Decoration, Folder Decoration, and Project Decoration options to edit the variable(s) that display for a file, folder, or project and the order in which they should display. To add a variable to the format, click Add Variables, select the desired variable(s) from the list, and click OK. Use the Branch on check-in flag to enter your preferred text indicator.

Default setting:

File Decoration: ${name} (${dot_notation}) 
Folder Decoration: ${name} 
Project Decoration: ${name} [${view_path}] 
Branch on check-in flag: !

Icon Decorations

These settings specify the overlay icons used to show StarTeam-specific information in views. You can activate icon decorations for the following:

• Current
• Outgoing changes
• Incoming changes
• Bidirectional changes
• Locked exclusively
• Excluded