View - Panes - Project

The project pane shows all components in our project. It also shows how components are associated, such as a drawing and its table. We can use the project pane to open components in windows, to drag and drop components into maps, to rename components and to organize components within folders. The status area at the bottom of the pane will provide summary information about any highlighted component.

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We can also use the project pane to copy and paste components. Copy and paste within the project pane is used not only to make copies of components, but to also transform one type of component into another. For example, we might copy a geocoded table and paste it as a drawing, or we might copy an image and paste it as a terrain. When using Copy and Paste As to transform one type of component into another, supplemental dialogs will be raised as necessary after the Paste As command.

Click on a component to highlight it. The project pane's toolbar commands will then apply to that component.

$images\btn_proj_openwin.gif$	Open - Open the highlighted component in a window. If it is already open, activate the opened window and move it above other open windows.
$images\btn_proj_opennew.gif$	Open in New Window - Open the highlighted component in a window. If it is already open in a window, open it in a new window.
$images\btn_proj_run.gif$	Run - Run the highlighted component. This command is normally used to run an executable component, such as a script.
$images\btn_cut.gif$	Cut - Copy the highlighted component to the Windows clipboard and then delete it from the project.
$images\btn_copy.gif$	Copy - Copy the highlighted component to the Windows clipboard.
$images\btn_paste.gif$	Paste - Paste the Windows clipboard into the project.
$images\btn_proj_pasteas.gif$	Paste As - Paste the Windows clipboard into the project as a given component. The down arrow pulls down a menu showing what types of components can be used for the data on the clipboard.
$images\btn_delete_thing.gif$	Delete - Delete the highlighted component.
$images\btn_add_thing.gif$	Create - Create new components, such as folder, drawings, images, etc. in the project.
$images\btn_refresh.gif$	Refresh - Appears in Enterprise Edition. Press to refresh the project display immediately in advance of any autorefresh time period, polling all Enterprise servers to see if any shared component has been checked out or checked back in.
CTRL- *	Pressing CTRL- * (Asterisk) with the focus on the Project pane expands all components.
CTRL- /	Pressing CTRL- / (slash) with the focus on the Project pane collapses all components.

Context Menus in the Project Pane

Right clicking on a component will call up a menu of useful commands. For example, the context menu for most components will include an Export command. See the Project Pane - Context Menus topic.

Folders

$images\btn_proj_create_folder.gif$ The create folder button in the project pane toolbar creates folders within the project. Use folders to organize components within the project and to keep the project pane manageable.

This is especially important when importing drawings from complex file formats such as those used with VMAP and TIGER/Line, where a single import will create numerous drawings and maps. Imports will create components within the current folder. Before importing from such formats, create a new folder in the project to highlight it and then choose File - Import. Imported components will be created within the folder specified.

To move files between folders, drag components and drop them into a folder (drop them onto the folder icon itself and not the hierarchy beneath the folder). Folders may be created within other folders. If a folder is highlighted in the project pane and the create folder command is issued, the new folder will be created within the highlighted folder. Folders may be dragged and dropped into other folders. To move a folder out from within another folder, drag it and drop it into the "white space" of the project outside another folder.