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Chapter 1 Overview : Working with TIBCO Designer Projects

Working with TIBCO Designer Projects
This section describes how to create, import, and edit TIBCO Designer projects.
Creating a Project
To create a project:
1.
Select File > New > Project > TIBCO Designer > TIBCO Designer Project.
2.
Click Next.
3.
4.
a.
Select Create project using existing Designer Project.
b.
Click the Browse.. button to navigate to the directory where the project is located.
c.
d.
To copy the project to the workspace, select the Copy project to Workspace checkbox. This option allows you to create a local copy of the project in the workspace and edit this copy without making changes to the original project.
e.
Click Next.
5.
Click Finish.
From the Project Explorer view, right-click the project name and select Open. The TIBCO Designer menu option is now added to the menubar and the perspective switches to Designer-TIBCO.
In addition to the Designer perspective, another available perspective is Debugger-TIBCO. This perspective contains the views used to debug TIBCO Designer projects. See Launching the Tester for more information.
Importing a Project
To import a TIBCO Designer project created using TIBCO Business Studio:
1.
Click File > Import ....
2.
Expand the General node.
3.
Click Existing Projects into workspace.
4.
Click Next.
5.
Click Browse... located to the right of the Select root directory field.
a.
b.
6.
7.
Optional. Select the checkbox for Copy projects into workspace if you want to create a copy of the project in your workspace.
8.
Click Finish.
Adding Resources to a Project
After you have created or imported a project, you can start adding resources to your project.
To add a resource to your project:
1.
2.
Alternatively, from the DABS Main View, right-click and select Add Resource and choose the resource from the appropriate sub-menu.
Global Variables
Select Window > Show View > Global Variables to display the Global Variables view for your project.
Click the icon to bring up the Global Variables editor.
See Global Variables and TIBCO Designer documentation for more information.
Edit Operations
The Edit operations such as Cut, Paste, Copy, and Delete can be performed by selecting a resource and using the right-click menu.
See Differences between TIBCO Designer and TIBCO Designer Add-in for TIBCO Business Studio for more information.
DABS Synchronize
The basic task of the button is to provide a short and consistent way to access the Designer > Resources > Refresh menu option. While performing this refresh action, it also checks for the unsaved changes in the project and prompts the user accordingly. This button should not be used as a replacement for save operations. If you have added, removed, or modified resources in the project using the DABS Main View, you must save the project. If resources are imported using the Eclipse Wizards, you can use the DABS Synchronize button to refresh and synchronize the project changes.
Figure 7 Project before Sync
 
Figure 8 After Clicking DABS Sync Button
Project View after the DABS Synchronize action is shown in Figure 9 .
Figure 9 After Sync
If you select:
Yes to save – unsaved changes will be first written to disk. Other changes will then be transferred from disk to the DABS Main View.
No to save – unsaved changes will be lost as project will restore the state as is on disk with any new files directly available on disk.
Cancel – save or refresh will be canceled.
Autosave
From release 1.2.0 onwards, Autosave has been made property based and is DISABLED by default.
If this property is manually enabled, then your projects are automatically saved whenever there is a requirement of synchronizing the contents in the DABS Main View and Project Explorer View.
Closing a Project
To close a project, from the Project Explorer view, right-click the project name, and choose Close Project.
Deleting a Project
To delete a project, from the Project Explorer view, right-click the project name, close the project and then choose Delete.
Choose whether or not you want to delete the project from the location where it was saved.

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