Creating a New Project

Creating a New Project

To create a new project, select New Project from the Project menu, the New menu in the contextual menu, or the drop-down menu at the top-left of the Project view. This opens a dialog box that allows you to assign a name to the new project and adds it to the structure of the project in the Project view.

Adding Items to the Project

To add items to the project, select any of the following actions that are available when invoking the contextual menu in the Project view:

New ⇒ File

Opens a New file dialog box that helps you create a new file and adds it to the project structure.

New ⇒ Folder

Opens a New Folder dialog box that allows you to specify a name for a new folder and adds it to the structure of the project.

New ⇒ Logical Folder

Creates a logical folder in the tree structure (the icon is a magenta folder on Mac OS X - ).

New ⇒ Logical Folders from Web

Replicates the structure of a remote folder accessible over FTP/SFTP/WebDAV, as a structure of logical folders. The newly created logical folders contain the file structure of the folder it points to.

Add Folder

Adds a link to a physical folder, whose name and content mirror a real folder that exists in the local file system (the icon of this action is different on Mac OS X ).

Add Files

Adds links to files on the local file system.

Add Edited File

Adds a link to the currently edited file in the project.

Using Linked Folders (Shortcuts)

Another easy way to organize your XML working files is to place them in a directory and then to create a corresponding linked folder in you project. If you add new files to that folder, you can simply use the Refresh (F5) action from the toolbar or contextual menu and the Project view will display the existing files and subdirectories. If your files are scattered amongst several folders, but represent the same class of files, you might find it useful to combine them in a logical folder.

You can create linked folders (shortcuts) by dragging and dropping folders from the Windows Explorer (Mac OS X Finder) to the project tree, or by selecting Add Folder in the contextual menu from the project root. Linked folders are displayed in the Project view with bold text. To create a file inside a linked folder, select the New ⇒ File action from the contextual menu. The linked files presented in the Project view are marked with a special icon.