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Project Menu

The Project menu allows you to create, open, close, save, import and print projects in different formats and to manipulate palettes. To delete a project, return to the Startup panel and choose the Administration tab.

When TIBCO Designer opens a project, it does not load the information for each resource by default. Instead, information is loaded when it is needed. For example, the information is loaded when: • The user opens a folder (which loads the resources inside that folder) • The user searches for references, or validates a project (this loads the entire project) To load all information, choose Load Full Project, discussed below.

New Project

Creates a new project. You have two choices:

•	New empty project creates a new empty project and displays it in a new TIBCO Designer window.

•	New from template creates a new project from a previously saved project template.

Regardless of the option you choose, you are then prompted for the name of the project with a Save Project dialog.

See Save for additional information about the Save Project dialog.

Open

Opens an already existing project in a new TIBCO Designer window.

By default, TIBCO Designer assumes that the project is read or write accessible and that it is not managed by a revision control system (RCS).

If your project is under RCS, select the multi-user system under which the project is maintained. When you select an RCS, TIBCO Designer provides a Test Configuration option. Use this option to test access to RCS. See Working with a Revision Control System.

Reopen

Reopens a recently saved project. A list of projects is available through the submenu.

Reopen may prompt for information, such as a password.

Close

Closes this project and its TIBCO Designer window. Unless Show this Panel only on Startup was selected, the startup panel is displayed when you close all projects.

Save

Saves this project. If the project was previously saved, it is saved with the same settings.

If the project was not previously saved, this command brings up the Save Project window. You must specify the project directory.

•	Encoding—This field is used to determine the wire encoding that TIBCO Rendezvous should use for sending and receiving data in this project. This is a project-wide preference. See TIBCO Adapter Concepts for a discussion of how TIBCO adapters support Unicode.

ISO8859-1—Default value. Use this option if you ONLY intend to use TIBCO Rendezvous for English and Western European data.

UTF-8— Select this option if you want to use TIBCO Rendezvous activities for processing non-Western European data, such as Japanese.

•	Multi-User System—Allows multiple developers to work on the same project and to use file sharing/locking or a version control system so that the same resource is not changed by two developers at the same time.

None—Default value. Do not use file sharing.

File sharing—Allows you to place the project in a central location, then lock and unlock resources as needed. See File Sharing.

ClearCase—See ClearCase.

CVS—See CVS.

Perforce —Allows multiple users to access via Perforce version control. See Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management System.

Merant Version Manager (PVCS)—See PVCS Version Manager.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe —Allows multiple users to take advantage of the Visual SourceSafe features. See Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.

Saving the project as an XML Canon project is also possible. See XML Canon.

TIBCO Designer will delete any existing files and folders in the folder you designate as a project folder if you give permission to delete data in that folder.

Save As

Brings up the Save Project dialog, even if the project was previously saved.

Save As Template

Saves the resources included in the current project, including their configuration information, as a project template.

Validate Project for Deployment

Validate Project for Deployment iterates through the project tree and validates each resource. Each resource is checked for broken references, undefined global variables, and resource-specific validation. For some resources included with TIBCO Designer by default, this includes the following:

•	Unused global variables and global variables that are used but not defined (note that InstanceID and AppName are both used and not defined intentionally).

•	Timers indicate if they don't have a session

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The Generic Adapter Configuration and other adapter configurations can have a version which may limit the supported features. Validation will indicate a problem if there is one. For example, if you can add a JMS session to a Generic Adapter Configuration and then change it to Version 4, validation indicates the problem.

•	Advisories indicate if they do not have a subject

•	Load URLs indicate if they are empty

•	File sinks require a file, hawk sinks require an agent name and network sinks require a session

•	DB and ODBC transaction pools require transaction IDs

•	Association endpoints require a class

•	Many fields for Union and Operation classes require a reference. If there is no class (that is, the field is blank), a validation error results (not if the class does not exist).

•	The message filter requires an implementation value that tells it what library to use in the SDK

•	Endpoints and sessions require the following configuration:

−	TIBCO Rendezvous endpoints require a subject

−	TIBCO Rendezvous sessions require daemon, network, and service

−	JMS endpoints require a destination

−	JMS sessions require a factory and url

−	RVA sessions require a port and host

−	RVCM sessions require a name and ledger

−	RVCMQ sessions require a name

Resources on palettes installed by other products, for example, TIBCO Adapters or TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, have their own validation behavior.

Load Full Project

This option loads the whole project, which makes opening the project slower but working with the project faster.

When TIBCO Designer loads a multi-file project, it does not load the information for each resource by default. Instead, information is loaded when it is needed. For example, the information is loaded when:

•	The user opens a folder (which loads the things inside that folder)

•	The user searches for references, or validates a project (this loads the entire project)

Partial loading makes opening a project faster.

Hide Library Resources, Show Library Resources

When Hide Library Resources is selected, the design-time libraries you have included in your project are hidden from view. When Show Library Resources is selected, the design-time libraries are visible in your project.

Import Full Project

Imports a project into the current project, instead of opening it in a new window by itself. You are prompted with the dialog discussed in Opening and Reopening Projects.

Importing projects is useful because it bypasses the step of exporting individual resources when you want to combine projects.

See Importing a Project.

Export Full Project

•	Local Repository—Saves as a local repository (.dat) file. Browse for the .dat file to open it.

•	Server Repository—Saves a project as a repository (.dat) file managed by a TIBCO Administration Server. See Exporting a Server Repository Project You must supply the project name and protocol information. See Table 17, Specifying Protocol Information.

•	ZIP Archive—Exports a project to a ZIP archive.

If you installed a server with a security component, the user specified in the New Project dialog must have write privileges for the domain to create a new server-based project. You can set access privileges using TIBCO Administrator. See the TIBCO Administrator documentation.

Import Resources from File, Folder, URL

Imports a resource previously saved from TIBCO Designer. The resource is imported with any embedded resources. For example, a folder is imported with all resources in it.

Note that you can only import a resource if the current selection allows such a resource. For example, you can import a Sessions resource if a Sessions folder is selected but not if a Sessions resource is selected.

TIBCO Designer displays the Import Options dialog which allows you to customize the resource import. See Importing Resources for a description of import options.

Export Resources to File

You can export a resource from a project and import that resource into a different project. TIBCO Designer displays the Export Resources dialog which allows you to add or remove dependencies. See Exporting Resources for a description of export options.

Print Setup

Displays the Print Setup dialog for your platform.

Print

Prints the current design panel using the Print Setup options.

Save as JPEG

Saves the currently displayed window as a .jpeg file. This JPEG file can then be used to document a resource configuration.

This option is not available for the Details display.

Generate HTML Report

Generates an HTML report of the currently selected resource using the specified report properties.

Field	Description
File	HTML file to be generated.
Save Recursively	Saves explicit information about any resource that is part of the selected resource, for example, all resources in a folder.
Include Icons	Includes the icons for the resources.
Include Resource Types	Includes resource type information.
Substitute Global Variables	Substitutes global variables, that is, uses the variable’s values in the report.
Show Blank Values	Normally empty values are not included in the report. If you check this option, they are included and marked blank
Open Report in Browser	Opens the report in an HTML browser after the report has been generated.
Title	Title of the HTML document that will be generated. The title becomes visible in the browser title bar.
Header (as HTML)	Header for the document.
Footer (as HTML)	Footer for the document.

Exit

Exits TIBCO Designer. Returns to the Startup panel if Show this Panel only on Startup is unchecked.

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