The Project Editor provides an easy to use interface to change the rules that define a Project. It is sensitive to the state of objects and prevents editing an object’s definition when it has already been implemented. For example the layout of an IDT cannot be changed if it has been loaded. Similarly, you cannot change key building rules for an IDX if it is already loaded.

The Project Editor is invoked from the Console Client’s

Project

Edit

button. The Editor works on a

copy of the rules

for a given Project. If you have ended a previous editing session without Loading the rules, or the Load failed, the Editor will prompt you to either:

A tree structure is used to navigate to the object you wish to edit. Objects that belong in a logical hierarchy will appear in the tree structure in two places:

For example, IDXs are attached to their parent IDT and also to the root of the tree. The individual nodes attached to the root may be edited, cloned, etc. The nodes in the hierarchical tree structure are present only to highlight the relationship between objects and can not be modified.

If you make any changes to an object you must either

Save Changes

or

Discard Changes

before moving to another object. Saving and discarding only effects the copy of the rules.

The copy of the rules is not parsed until you click the

Load

button. A successful Load process will replace the existing rules with the copy and deletes the copy of the rules. If the Load process fails, the original Project remains in effect and the copy of the rules you have been editing is available for correction by restarting the Editor.

The

Close

button will exit the editor without saving the most recent changes you have made.

An existing object can be cloned to create a new object of the same type. You will be prompted to name the new object after which you can edit it.

If you wish to add a new object that does not already exist, you will need to use the

Add

button. Click the Project name in the tree structure and then click the

Add

button. Select the type of object you wish to add and enter a name for it.

Help is available as tool tips. Hover the mouse pointer over the item that you want help for and a tool tip appears.

By default, the Editor will only show the most common options that the average user will want to see. If you wish to use some of the more advanced options, click the

Show Advanced

button to enable access to all options for a given object.

The GUI Project Editor uses a project template to add new components (IDTs, IDXs, Searches, etc). A project template is provided in the (DCE Server) installation in

dce/projects/project_template.pr

. A new template is shipped with every Fix CD. The console performs verification of the template when the console is started, when a new Rulebase is created or when a different Rulebase is selected. If the current template is not up to date then the template will be imported from the new template file. The template must not be edited.