Editing Projects in the Maintain Development Environment

How to:

When you open a new WebFOCUS Maintain project, your Maintain Development Environment looks similar to the following:

By default, you see the following two windows (depending on what windows you have open and what settings you have changed, your environment may look slightly different):

Explorer

(Usually on the right.) This window is where you manage your projects, their components, and the servers you can access.

For more information on using this window, see the WebFOCUS Maintain Getting Started manual.

Project Explorer

(Usually on the left.) Contains another view of the Maintain procedures in your project. This window also has a Display all files in the project paths button.

If the project and any other component in it have asterisks next to their names, you know that you have made changes to that component since the last save.


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Procedure: How to Save Your Project or a Component in Your Project

When a project component has been modified since the last time you saved it, you see an asterisk next to the name of your project and the name of the component. To save a component in your project, do the following:

  1. Select the component you want to save.
  2. In the File menu, click Save.

    or

    Click the Save button on the General toolbar.

To save the entire project, do one of the following:


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Procedure: How to Save Your Project Automatically

To automatically save your project:

  1. In the Tools menu, click Environment options.
  2. Select the Automatically save projects every n minutes check box.
  3. Enter how often you want to save your projects, or leave the default set to five minutes.
  4. Click OK to confirm your changes.

Note: The default for this option is on.


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Procedure: How to Change a Project's Path

By default, a project's path includes the directory IBI\apps\projectname, but you may want to add new directories to this path.

  1. In the Explorer window, right-click the project, and then click Properties.
  2. In the Properties dialog box, click the Directories tab.
  3. You can do any of the following:
    1. To add a new directory, click the New button to open the Browse for folder dialog box, select a directory you want to add and click OK.
    2. To remove a directory from the path, select it and click the Delete button.
    3. To change the search order of a directory, select it and use the Move item up and Move item down buttons.
  4. Click OK when you are done.

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Procedure: How to View New File Types in the Explorer

By default, you can see HTML files (.html, .htm), Maintain files (.mtn, .for), Master files (.mas, .acx), and Procedures (.fex) in the Explorer.

  1. In the Explorer window, right-click the project, and then click Properties.
  2. In the Properties dialog box, click the Edit Filters tab.
  3. Click the Add new file type filter(s) button.
  4. In the New filter dialog box, select the file type you wish to add and click OK.
  5. In the Properties dialog box, click OK.

The WebFOCUS Maintain Development Environment can now display files of this type.

Note: You can customize the folders in a project to display various file types. For more information, see the Creating Reporting Applications With Developer Studio manual.


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Procedure: How to View or Hide All Files in a Project's Path

To show or hide files in a project’s path:


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Procedure: How to Rename a Project or Project Component

To rename a project or component:

  1. Right-click the project or project component and click Rename.
  2. Type a new name and press Enter.

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Procedure: How to Delete a Project or Project Component

To delete a project or component:

  1. Right-click the project or project component and click Delete.
  2. Confirm that you want to delete the project or project component.

Note:


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Procedure: How to Remove a Project Component From a Project

To remove a project component from a project:

Note: The project component still exists, so you can add it back to the project if you wish.


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