This chapter describes how to start the PPM components, the required infrastructure, and the PPM user interface.
Three different methods are available for starting PPM.
When you start PPM as a standard application or as an applet, all PPM functions are available to you. Differences only occur as a result of the security restrictions for the Web browsers (opening of local HTML or PDF files).
By default, the login data (User name, Password, Language, and Client to be opened), is always requested when you start PPM, which you must enter manually. You can also add this data to the start command or the URL as parameters so that it is applied automatically. Depending on the method you select for starting PPM, different parameters are supported, which you can use to determine how PPM starts.