As outlined in Fundamental Concepts, projects act as 'wrappers' for a collection of one or more scenarios. This page outlines how to work with them.
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Figure 1. New Project dialog
Saving a project
To save an open project, choose . This saves a project file with the extension *.rsproj. If it is the first tiime you are saving your project, the Save As dialog opens and gives you the opportunity to choose the location and name of your project file. By default, the name of the file is the name of your project. If you wish to save a different version of your file, choose
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Note: Despite the *.rsproj file extension, Source project files are *.zip archives. Because of this, you should be careful when sending project files as email attachments, or when downloading project files from web-based sources using the HTTP protocol. Email filters often do not allow *.zip files when they cannot interpret the contents, and both servers and browsers often unpack *.zip archives after downloading them. |
Closing an open project
To close an open project, choose . This closes the current project and prompts to save your work (Figure 2). Click the appropriate button.
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You can duplicate existing projects by copying them. In your local machine's File Explorer, select the desired project, right-click and choose Copy. In the target location, right-click and choose Paste.
Scenarios
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Note: You must upgrade a project if it was created in Source v3.1.0 or earlier. If you open these projects in later versions of Source, an error message (shown in Figure 4) will appear prompting you to save in v3.1.0. Follow the steps outlined in the dialog to automatically upgrade the project to the current version of Source. Figure 4. Opening a project, error |
Copying a scenario
You can duplicate existing scenarios as a whole, provided they are part of the same project. You may want to do this if you wish to experiment with variations without affecting your original scenario.
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