The Navigator view enables you to manage and view the file resources that are in your workspace. You can see your projects and files as they actually exist in the file system. You can add files and folders, and append them to your projects or workspace. These extra items won’t change or affect the behavior of your Identity Manager solution. However, they enable you to conveniently append other pieces of information that you want to associate with your projects and workspace.
IMPORTANT:Do not use the Navigator View to copy, rename, move, or delete files for a project that is under version control. Performing these operations from the Navigator view does not reflect properly in the Version Control view.
Figure 4-11 The Navigator View
The Navigator view enables you to do the following:
Table 4-2 Navigator View Icons
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Project Name
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The name of the created project. This is the name of the project stored in the selected workspace directory. Double-clicking the Project name expands or collapses the entries under the project. Right-clicking a project name allows you to do the following:
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Project’s Documents Folder and Subfolders
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The Designer > Documents folder contains the files of the created project. Beneath the Designer > Documents directory are the documentation and resources folders and any other folders you have created in this project. Right-clicking any of the project folder names allows you to do the following:
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All File Types
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Because the project folders can contain many different files, you can see different icons displayed, depending on the file extension. Right-clicking any of these files allows you to:
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IMPORTANT:Copy and paste operations, and drag and drop operations in the Navigator View are not handling files properly if they are under version control. Perform these operations from the Project view if the project is under version control.
In the Navigator view, you can move any document into your project and edit it with a selected editor. For example, you can add a Word or PowerPoint document, then double-click the document. The native application loads inside Designer, as any other editor would, where you can view and edit the document. (This feature only works on Windows.)
You can create linked resources at any depth within projects. This allows you to put resources from different places in the file system anywhere you like in the project structure, including below other linked resources. The same resource can be linked to the same project.
To create a linked resource:
Select Window > Show View > Navigator.
In the Navigator view, right-click a project, then select New > Other.
Expand the General folder.
Select Folder, then click Next.
Click Advanced, then select Link a folder in the filesystem.
Browse to and select a folder, click OK, then click Finish.
Designer creates a link to that folder directly under the project. You can then easily access the folder.
You can use the same procedure to link to a file.