Web Projects Control Panel - Context Menu/More Options

Description

The Web Projects Control Panel is used to manage files, folders, components, and project-level options in a web project. Additional commands are available by right-clicking to get the Context Menu and from the More... button on the toolbar.

Name
Description
Create Grid Component From Meta Data File

Generate a Grid component from a Grid Meta Data File.

Define Project Aliases

Define aliases at the web project level.

Publishing Fonts

In some cases the server on which your application is running may not have installed a font used in one of your reports. You can publish missing fonts to the application server by creating a Fonts folder.

Search for Files in All Web Projects

Search for specific text within files across all Web Projects in the current Workspace.

Set Control Panel refresh options...

Configure the refresh behavior of the Web Projects Control Panel.

Overview

The Web Projects Control Panel displays the components and files in the current web project and provides commands for managing them.

In addition to the toolbar commands, two additional menus provide further options:

  • Web Projects Control Panel Context Menu: An unnamed dialog/context/shortcut menu that appears when you right-click on a file or in the white space to the right of the file list.
  • More...: The additional options menu that appears when you click the More... button on the toolbar.

The Web Projects Control Panel

The Web Projects Control Panel showing project folders, components, and toolbar
                    commands.
The Web Projects Control Panel

Shortcut Menu

If you right-click in the white space to the right of the files in the Web Projects Control Panel, a shortcut menu (sometimes called the "context menu") opens with additional commands.

The commands in this menu include the following options (top-to-bottom):

  • Publish (fast)
  • Publish...
  • Open With
  • New
  • Add File
  • Edit
  • Delete
  • Rename
  • Duplicate
  • Show Details
  • Working Preview
  • Insert Component into an .A5W Page
  • New Folder
  • Delete Folder
  • Copy To
  • Send
  • Export
  • Import
  • View
  • Folder Security
  • Xbasic Script for Desktop Windows
  • Restore backup
  • Restore deleted file(s)
  • Cleanup component backups
  • Search all files in this Web Project...
  • Search for a file in all Web Projects...
  • Search for files in all Web Projects that contain specified text...
  • Search for a Component in all Web Projects...
  • Finding Component Dependencies
  • Copy filename to clipboard
  • Show filename
  • Show Publish History...
  • Find project by GUID...
The shortcut menu that appears when you right-click in the file area of the Web
                    Projects Control Panel.
Web Projects Control Panel Context Menu

The More Button

The More... button on the Web Projects Control Panel toolbar provides access to additional project commands.

The More button showing the Show Additional Options tooltip.
The More Button

Additional Options Menu

Clicking the More... button opens a menu with additional project commands.

The options in this menu include the following commands (top-to-bottom):

  • Customize the columns shown in the Web Control Panel
  • Open Web Style Builder
  • Create 'App data' folders
  • Create 'Fonts' folder
  • Create Font mapping
  • Add certificate file to project
  • Set Control Panel refresh options...
  • Create Grid Component From Meta Data File...
  • Node
  • Python
  • Providers for Named Resources and REST Services
  • AlphaLaunch
  • Open common folder
  • Export/import Custom UX Controls
  • Encrypt files in project
  • Define Project Aliases
The menu that appears when clicking the More button in the Web Projects Control
                    Panel.
The menu that appears when clicking the More button in the Web Projects Control Panel.

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