Mylar Tips and Tricks

Contents

Landmarks Explained
Keyboard Shortcuts
Mylar Tasks view

Mylar Active Plug-in Suite is a run environment for executing all unit tests currently within your active Mylar task context. By setting one of these run environments you can quickly execute whatever tests you are currently working on.

Landmarks Explained

How to use landmarks...

Mylar Tasks view tips

Can't find the task you're looking for? Start typing in the search box at the top of the view and matching tasks will be displayed in the tasks view.
Tasks that have been work on in the past but are no longer present in the task view will be retrieved and displayed under the Archived Reports category.

Keyboard Shortcuts

View	Key Sequence	Description
Mylar Tasks	Create new task from browser URL	Mozilla - drag URL from browser and drop on task list view. Internet Explorer - drag URL from browser, hold down CTRL key and drop on task list view.
Package Explorer	Ctrl-Left_Click	Reveal elements hidden in view due to Mylar filtering
	Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Down	Make the selected element less interesting. If the element is a landmark, this key sequence will remove the landmark.
Java Editor	Ctrl - 1	Quick Fix