Using the Solution View
Solution View Organization
The Solution View supports Control Architect functions such as Control Conversion. Control Conversion is basically defined as taking a source of data such as an Excel spreadsheet file, converting the data values, and exporting the converted data files to a known data format such as a Honeywell Exception Build (EB) file or a Honeywell Cxxx XML configuration file.
Control Architect provides a set of Templates that are used to facilitate a Control Conversion task. When adding a Template to a Solution View project data folder, a copy of this template is created and becomes available as a file.
Create a New Solution
To create a new Solution, choose the main menu item File-New Solution.
Add a New Project
A Solution can only contain Projects as direct subitems. You cannot add a Project as a subitem to another Project.
To add a new Project to the Solution, right mouse-click on the Solution Name item in the view to display its context menu and choose the menu item Add-New Project...
Add a Folder to the Project
A Project can only contain Folders as direct subitems.
To add a new data Folder to a Project, right mouse-click on a Project item in the Solution View to display its context menu and choose the menu item Add-New Folder. A folder browse dialog view will appear to allow you to choose a file system Folder to add as a data folder.
Add Existing file items to the Project Data Folder
File items can only be contained in a Project Data Folder.
To add an existing file item to a Project data folder, right mouse-click on a Project item in the Solution View to display its context menu and choose the menu item Add-Existing Item... A file browse dialog view will appear to allow you to choose files to add to the data folder view.
You can add any type of file to the project data folder. Select multiple items to add them in the same operation.
Add New items to the Project Data Folder
To add an existing file item to a Project data folder, right mouse-click on a Project item in the Solution View to display its context menu and choose the menu item Add-New Item... A template browse dialog view will appear to allow you to choose from a set of Control Architect installed templates to add to the data folder view.
Working with the View Items
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You can move file items between data folders by left mouse-clicking on the item and dragging it to another data folder. This will move the physical location of the file item being dragged to the new file system location.
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You can copy file items between data folders by left mouse-clicking on the item and dragging it to another data folder while pressing the
Ctrl key. This will copy the physical location of the file item being dragged to the new file system location. If the file item already exists in the destination file folder or if a name of a file item currently exists in the destination Solution Project folder, then the copy operation will fail.
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You can copy an existing Project Data Folder or Project File item within a data folder by right mouse-clicking to display a context menu and choosing the menu item
Copy. This will create a new folder in the file system and name it by appending the text "_
Copy". All file items will also be copied to the new folder location and renamed by appending the text "_
Copy".
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You can remove a file item from a Project Data folder by right mouse-clicking to display a context menu and choosing the menu item
Remove. You will be prompted to remove the file item from the Solution View and/or permanently delete the file item.
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You can left mouse double-click on a file item to execute the verb registered on your system for the specific file type. For example if you were to add an Excel Workbook file reference and double-click on the Workbook file item it would launch Excel with the opened Workbook since the verb "Open" is default registered on your system.
