Sonar components—an overview

Clicking on a project's name from the home page gets you to the project's dashboard. The default configuration consists of a two-column layout with the basic widgets. The menu on the left is split into two sections—project navigation and configuration. Configuration settings and dashboard/widgets management are available to project administrators only. Before we go into dashboard details, let's have a quick look at the available components starting with the top left:

  • Dashboard: Every project's entry point
  • Components: Drill down one level, for example, from project to package level
  • Violations Drilldown: Violations indexer
  • Time Machine
  • Clouds
  • Design
  • Hotspots
  • Libraries

Dashboard

This is the default view when you browse into a ...

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