Creating new projects
Creating projects
Click "Create new project" below the welcome screen's project selector. This'll bring up the project creation assistant.
The neccessary information for creating a new articy:draft project are divided into 1 to 2 pages.
They are
- General information
- Source control MULTI-USER
Project information SINGLE-USER
Project name
This is the name of your project as it will be displayed in the project selector on the Welcome screen.
Project path
articy:draft will store all data related to your project in this folder 1. A folder needs to be empty to be used as a folder for a new project. If you check “Use name for path” 2 the project name is used as the project folder name and gets created automatically.
If you import images, documents or other files into your project later, they will also be copied to the project location.
It is possible to move the location of your project's working copy even after the project has been created. Read here for more details.
Import “Template Design” from existing project
If you have an existing project and like to re-use Templates for this new project, choose the project folder of the desired existing project here. When creating the new project all features, templates, and property definitions will be copied over.
This is an optional part of the project creation process, if you do not want to take over templates from another project, just leave this field empty. But be aware that project creation is the only time it is possible to import templates from another project, you will not be able to do this at a later stage.
If any objects were used as default values, for example for slot properties, these objects will not carry over and will be replaced by broken references. These broken references can be located easily with the conflict search , so you can see where you might need to add new default objects.
Project information MULTI-USER
The fields for project name, path, and importing templates are similar to the SINGLE-USER. Please see above for details. It is important to note though, that the project path for MULTI-USER is just for the local working copy, the project itself is server based.
Source Control system
articy:draft lets you choose between three different kind of repositories/depots for your multi-user project:
- Internal Articy Subversion
- Subversion (SVN) 1.9+
- Perforce provider
If you don't have an already existing Subversion or Perforce server up and running, the first choice might be the most suitable for you. articy:draft comes with an integrated Subversion server. This means you don't have to bother about repositories at all. Just choose a repository-path in the "Next" page of the project creation assistant and you're all done.
For more information about the different source control systems, please check out the SCM page in the multi-user area.
Changes
NEW in adx 4.2!If you are used to the previous project creation process, you might wonder what happened to the detail name, the project cover image, or the selection of the main project language? To streamline the project creation process, with 4.2 these were removed from the initial project creation, as all these are optional and can be set and changed at a later stage.
Access main project data
Right-click the main project entry in the Navigator 3, then select Open Properties 4.
Here you can add a detail name 5 and a cover image 6 for your project, which will be displayed in the project tile on the Welcome screen. Revert changes you just did with “Reset” 7 or “Apply” them 8.
Primary project language
Click “Settings” in the Navigator 9, then select the “Localization” tab 10. Here you find the project’s primary language 11. The primary language is automatically set a project creation according to your system language.
To change the primary project language click the wrench icon 12 and select a language from the predefined list. In case your desired language is not listed, select the “ISO 639-1 code” field and enter the language ISO 639-1 code there 13.