Cloning a Sample Project from a template file (.pr)
Cloning a Sample Project from a template file (.pr)
An alternative to using a Project definition file (SDF) is to create a Project by importing a Project template and to modify it using the Project editor included in the Console. The following steps are necessary to create a Project from a previously created template file:
Create a new Project work directory (if you do not wish to use the default work directory
dce
).
Set the environment variable
SSAWORKDIR
to refer to the work directory.
This can be done by modifying the DCE Server environment setting script
<DCE Installation Directory>\bin\dces.bat
on Windows and
<DCE Installation Directory>/env/dces
on Unix-based systems.
Start the DCE Server and Console.
Select
Project
New
Import a Project
from a flat file and enter the name of your Project and the location of the previously created (exported) Project template file.
After the new Project has been created, select it to make it the active Project (
Project
Select
).
To start the Project Editor, click the
Project
Edit
button. Refer to the
Editing a Project
section for more details.
If the clone Project has a different name than the original Project, it must be loaded either from Console Client (
Project
Load
) or from the Project Editor (
Load
), before it can be used with the new name. The load is a necessary step to create the clustering file for the new Project.