Setting the active project

When you insert a new project into an active project, (File > Insert Project), the project you insert automatically becomes the active project.

Procedure

Once you have more than one project open, you can make any project the active project:

  1. Right-click the project name in the product browser.
  2. Select Set as Active Project.

Results

Like the display of the active component and active configuration, the name of the active project displays in bold in the browser.

You can modify the model elements of the active project only. (The product displays RO, for read-only, next to all project names in the browser that are in non-active projects.)

If you make a project active without first saving changes made to the previously active project, the system asks you if want to save those changes. If you click the No button, your changes to the previously active project are not yet lost. This change is because when you close all the projects, the system asks if you want to save the project list and all its projects. If you click the Yes button, all changes made to all projects that have not been saved are saved at this time.

In general, the product commands are applied only to the active project. However, the commands Search and Locate in Browser can be applied across all open projects.


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