Project Properties

The Project Properties dialog window can be opened for both Spider Writer projects and Visual SourceSafe projects. In both cases, the window can be displayed by highlighing one of the two types of projects in the Environment sidebar and choosing the Project Properties command from the Environment menu.

The Project Properties window allows you to change information about a project such as title, description and a number of options. The Project Properties dialog for a Spider Writer project only has a General tab while the window for a Visual SourceSafe project has a General and an Options tab.

General Tab

The Title textbox allows you to specify the name of the project. This name appears in the Environment sidebar treeview. The Description textbox is for a description of the project. You can also specify a root URL for this project in the Root URL combobox. This root URL is used if you have the Route all project document previews through the above URL checkbox checked. This option indicates that whenever you open a document from a project in Spider Writer and view it in the browser, it will route the preview through the specified root URL. This is useful if you are working on a project directly off of a web server and use server-side scripting (such as ASP) in your pages. See the project fundamentals topic for more information on this feature.

Options Tab (Visual SourceSafe Projects Only)

This tab displays a number of checkbox options that you can use to customize the Visual SourceSafe integration features. Check a checkbox to enable the associated option and uncheck a checkbox to disable the associated option.