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Components of the Project Manager
The following explains which each of the components of the Project Manager
are used for.
1 Project Popup Menu. Lists all the open and recently opened projects.
Use the list to switch between open projects.
2 Publish Project Button. Displays and populates the Batch Publish
dialog box with all the layouts in the current project.
3 Project Tree View. Displays an organized list of all layouts in the
current project.
You can perform the following actions in the tree view:
 Double-click a layout or view to open the associated drawing.
 Right-click to access shortcut menus of the operations that are relevant
to the currently selected item. For more information, see
Project Tree
View Shortcut Menus
(page 961).
 Drag items within the tree view to reorder them.
4 Details Panel. Displays the properties for the item selected in the
Project tree view. Click the Show/Hide Details button at the bottom of
the Project Manager to toggle the display of the Details panel.
For more information on the properties listed in the Details panel, see
 Project Properties (page 964)
 Layout Properties (page 967)
 Group Properties (page 970)
 View Properties (page 971)
5 Create Action Button. Displays a popup menu that allows you to
create a new project, or add layouts and groups to the current project.
 New Layout. Displays the New Project Layout dialog box (page 974)
and creates a new layout in the project or under the selected group.
 Add Existing Drawing. Displays the Add Layout from Drawing
dialog box and allows you to select a layout from an existing drawing
to add to the project.
 New Group. Creates a new group.
 Create New Project. Displays the
New Project dialog box (page
972) and creates a new project data (DST) file.
6 Remove Button. Removes the selected group or layout from the project.
Removing a layout does not delete the associated drawing file.
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