If you are opening a shared team project for the first time in your working environment, please read Initializing team working environments.
Double-click on the working environment in which you want to open the project.
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:
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.
Opening shared projects from the Working Environments
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:
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.
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To open a project from the Working Environments tool:
Choose Tools > Working Environments in any open SNiFF+ tool.
Opening projects from the Project Editor
The Working Environments tool appears.
The Projects dialog appears.
Open the Project. For details about the Projects dialog, please refer to page 144.
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.