Creation, opening and storage of projects

Project Menu

Creating, opening and saving projects are carried out by usual commands for file management . These commands are available by Project menu or by Project toolbar .

The operation of these commands is briefly pointed out below.

Project Menu Project Toolbar

Create a new project

To create a new project, proceed as follows:

  • click on New from the Project menu

    or on the icon from the Project toolbar.

Result: Flux recovers a lot of information from the database model, in order to build the proper database of the new project. The new project is temporarily named ANONYMOUS.

Open an existent project

To open an existent project:

  • click on Open project from the Project menu

    or on the icon from the Project toolbar.

  • select the existing project (file) from the Open dialog box.

Result: When a project built with an old version is opening, Flux performs the update of the database.

Save as a project

To save as a project in progress:

  • click on Save as from the Project menu.
  • enter the project name in the Save dialog box

Save a project in progress

To save a project in progress:

  • click on Save from the Project menu

    or on the icon from the Project toolbar

Close a project

To close a project:

  • click on Close from the Project menu

    or on the icon from the Project toolbar.

Result: When a project is closing, storage of project will be automatically proposed to the user if the project has been modified.