Opening Projects

If you are opening a shared team project for the first time in your working environment, please read Initializing team working environments.
You can open shared projects and absolute (browsing-only) projects from the Launch Pad. You can also open shared projects from the Working Environments tool.
For shared projects:

- To open a shared project in your own Private Working Environment(s), use the Launch Pad's Working Environments tab.
- To open a shared project in the default working environment, use the Launch Pad's Working Environments tab or the Project menu.
- To open a shared project in any other working environment use the Working Environments tool.

| Note
| In the Working Environments Tool (and the Launch Pad's Working Environments tab), you can choose from a list of available projects. In the Launch Pad, you have to know the exact location and the name of the project you want to open.

Opening a shared project in a Private Working Environment
To open a shared project in your own Private Working Environment (PWE):

In the Launch Pad, select the Working Environments tab.
The Launch Pad displays the PWEs owned by you.
Double-click on the PWE in which you want to open the project.
The Projects dialog appears.
When you open the Projects dialog for the first time, the Project List is empty. Press the Update List button.
SNiFF+ scans the current working environment's directory structure and lists all the project description files (PDFs) in it.
Select the PDF of the project that you want to open.
If you do not want to parse the project when you open it, disable the With Symbols button.
You would disable the With Symbols button if:

- you only want to view or modify the project's structure and aren't interested in browsing its source files
- you only want to execute version control operations on the project's files

Loading a project with symbol information takes longer, since all the source files in the project will be parsed.
If you do not want to use cached project information when opening the project, clear the Use Cache check box.
You would clear the Use Cache check box if someone has made modifications to the project (including repository files) outside SNiFF+, and you want to get the latest project information or if your previous SNiFF+ was unexpectedly terminated.
Loading a project without the cache takes longer, since SNiFF+ will create the cache information while loading the project.
Press the Open button to open the selected project.
A new Project Editor appears, in which the loaded project is the root project in the Project Tree.

Opening shared projects from the Working Environments
tool
To open a project from the Working Environments tool:

Choose Tools > Working Environments in any open SNiFF+ tool.
The Working Environments tool appears.

2. Double-click on the working environment in which you want to open the project.
   The Projects dialog appears.
3. Open the Project. For details about the Projects dialog, please refer to page 144.

Opening projects from the Project Editor
When opening projects from the Project Editor, you can only open those that are displayed in the Project Tree of any open Project Editor on your screen.
To open projects from the Project Editor:

Make sure that the Project Description file type is visible in the Project List of the Project Editor. If it isn't, press Filters... and, in the FileTypes tab, select Project Description and press Ok.
In the File List, double-click the PDF of the project that you want to open.
A new Project Editor appears, in which the newly opened project is the root project in the Project Tree.