A header is displayed at the top of the RPI interface.
It exposes the following toolbar buttons to the left (shortcut keys provided in parentheses):
•Quick Access menu (Ctrl-Q): documented separately.
•Show/Hide the Home Page (Ctrl-H): this toggle button allows you to switch between display of any designer tabs you have open in the current RPI section, and the Home Page. When one or more tabs are open, on clicking this button, they are hidden, and the Home Page is shown. Clicking the button again redisplays the open tabs. If the Home Page is shown and another tab or file within a tab is opened (e.g. by using a widget, opening a file from the File System Dialog or using the Quick Access menu), the Home Page is hidden and tabs are redisplayed.
•Browse, manage or open files from the File System (Ctrl-M): clicking this button displays the RPI File System Dialog, which is documented separately.
•View a list of the jobs that you initiated (Ctrl-J): clicking this button displays the My Jobs dialog, which is documented separately.
The client’s name is shown in the center of the header. If custom colors were selected for the name’s display in Server Workbench, the name is displayed accordingly.
The following toolbar buttons are shown to the right:
•Click to view recent error and warning messages: this button allows you to access details of warning and/or error messages that have been generated during the current RPI session. Full details are provided in the Errors and Warnings section elsewhere in this documentation
View Pulse Notifications or Pulses relating to what you are currently viewing: allows you to view pulse messages. A red circle accompanies the button icon when one or more recent pulse messages that have yet to be viewed in the Pulse Notifications dialog exist. Clicking the button displays the following context menu:
o View Pulse Notifications…: displays recent pulses in the Pulse Notifications dialog. The option is disabled if none are available. On invocation, the red circle is removed from the button icon.
o Open Pulse Browser…: invoking this option displays pulses in the Pulses Window.
Note that the Pulses button is not shown following a client restart when system configuration setting EnablePulseMessages is set to False.
•View Product Updates: this button is shown only when a newer version of RPI is available. The number of new updates contained within the latest available version is shown at the button. If Critical or Important updates are available, the button is surrounded by an orange border. Clicking the button displays the Product Updates dialog (covered separately).
•Open default Wiki page: clicking this button opens the default Wiki page in the Linked Page Browser. If a default Wiki page has not been defined an informational message is shown instead.
•View Help and Support options for the current context: invocation of this menu option displays a sub-menu, exposing the following options:
o View Help: launches Help in a new window. The RPI online help documentation contains the same content as the user manual. Help is semi-contextual insofar as, if invoked when a given designer is displayed, that designer’s initial documentation page is shown automatically. If the Help Window is already shown, invocation brings that window into focus.
o Technical Support: displays the Redpoint support site in your default browser. For more information, please see the Sign in documentation.
o View Product Updates: selecting this option allows you to view installed and available updates in the Product Updates dialog (covered separately).
o About Redpoint Interaction...: displays the About Redpoint Interaction dialog (documented separately in this documentation).
Note that you can always access contextual help anywhere in RPI by pressing the F1 key.
An additional option is accessed via the rightmost toolbar button when RPI is launched with the ‘-devmode’ flag:
•Developer Tools: this is an advanced option that is reserved for system administrators’ use. Invocation of this option displays the Client Developer Tools dialog. More details can be found in the RPI System Administration Guide.