My Projects

My Projects is a management tool to remove, changes and create a new project.
Ordinal users can only reference those projects that are created by themselves and those they are granted to access. Whereas, users with administrative privileges are allowed to reference all created projects regardlessly.
My Projects can be started from Start page

Functions provided by My Projects

My Projects provide the following functions

Description of Functions

Name of functions	Description	Remarks
Project List View	List all projects displayed when My Projects is launched.	Sorted by standard unicode character order.
Create a new project	Create a new project and a script.	A new project can be created by Create a new project menu action within Designer.
Open Project	Deploys the selected project in Designer.
Rename Project	Renames the name of the project
Copy Project	Creates the copy of the selected project.
Delete Project	Deletes the selected project.
Download Project	Downloads the project selected locally.	With Studio for Web, project is archived into Zip file before it is downloaded to local machine
Upload Project	Uploads the projects download previously	With Studio for Web, Specify only the zip archived projects. When you want to upload a project, which was downloaded on Studio, on Studio for Web, you need to archive the project into a zip file and upload it. When you want to upload a project, which was downloaded on Studio for Web, on Studio, you need to extract the zip archived project and upload it.
Share projects	Enables sharing of existing projects and sets the permissions on shared projects.	In order to share a project, the user has be the owner of the project or the user needs to have administrative privileges.
Project tag settings	Set a tag to a project.	Enable when team development is enabled. Refer to "Team Development" for details.
Project properties	Shows the version number of the project and the owner.
Generate project specifications	Generates project specifications in HTML form in client OS local file system.
Search project	Search a project.
PSP data flow operation	Enables to operate PSP data flow on a script in a project.

Project List View

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Name	The name of the project.	When the team development is enabled and the project exists only on local, the project is displayed in gray. Refer to "Team Development" for details.
Owner	The owner of the project.
Date created	The date and time the project was originally created.
Date modified (Server modified)	The date and time the project was last modified.	When the team development is enabled, the label is Server modified.
Local modified	The modification date and time of the project that is stored locally .	Enable when team development is enabled.
Shared	Project sharing settings.	Shared projects are displayed [Shared] (Nothing is displayed for non-shared projects).

Create New Project

A new project can be created by selecting [File]-[New project].

Create New Project

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Project name	Specify a project name.	See Restrictions on characters used in the names of projects and scripts for any restrictions on the usage of characters in project names.
Share project	Select whether to enable sharing of the project. [Checked]: Project sharing is enabled. [Not Checked]:(default) Project sharing is not enabled.	Enable when Repository DB is enabled.
Create script together	Select whether a script should be created upon new project creation. [Checked]:(default) A script is created. [Not Checked]: No script is created.

Create script

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Script name	Specify a script name.	See Restrictions on characters used in the names of projects and scripts for any restrictions on the usage of characters in script names.

Open Project

To open a project, select [File]-[Open] menu action.

If the Team Development function is enabled and you would like to open a project which only exists in the local, you need to upload the project to the server.
From the menu, select [File] - [Open]. Then the "Upload local project" screen appears. You can upload the project from the screen.

Rename Project

To rename a project, select [File]-[Rename] menu action.

See Restrictions on characters used in the names of projects and scripts for any restrictions on the usage of characters in project names.

Copy Project

To copy existing project, use [Edit]-[Copy] and [Edit]-[Paste] menu actions.

A project that has been replicated will have its name followed by a number in parentheses.
Example: Project(1)

Delete Project

To delete a project, select [File]-[Delete] menu action.

Download Project

To download the project locally, select [File]-[Download to local] menu action.

See Downloading and uploading projects for any specification limitations imposed when downloading a project.

Download project

When downloading a project, you need to specify how a project is downloaded locally.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Download project with all version	Download full projects, including all versions.	Proportional to the number of the version, file size of the downloaded project becomes larger.
Download a specific version of the project	Download a specific version of the project only.

Upload Project

To upload a project, select [File]-[Upload from local] menu action.

See Downloading and uploading projects specification limitations imposed when uploading a project.

Uploading project

Select how a project should be uploaded to the server.

Description of items

Downloading a project	Is there a project with the same?	Uploading project	Uploading performed	Description
Download project with all version	No	-	Upload New	Upload your project withe same name as the one you've downloaded previously.
	Yes	Replace with uploading project	Upload overwrite	Performs uploading that overwrites any existing files.
	Yes	Upload project with new name	Upload New	Project will be uploaded as a new project with the name specified.
Download a specific version of the project	-	Commit to an existing project	Append Upload	Project is committed most recent version of an existing project.
Download a specific version of the project	-	Up-load as a new project	Upload New	Project will be uploaded as a new project with the name specified.

When a project is uploaded as a new project, the owner of the project becomes the user who has uploaded the project.

Share projects

To share a project, select [File]-[Share] menu action.

See Shared projects for any specification limitations regarding project sharing.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Share project	[Checked]: Share the project. [Not Checked]: (default) Do not share the project.
List of users and groups	Displays the list of the users and groups available. Select the user or the group the permission should be granted.	Enabled when [Share project] is checked.
Permission of selected user or group	[Read] The permission to perform and view project. [Write] The permission to edit and save the project. [Register] The permission to register project as as a service to server.	Enabled when [Share project] is checked. To grant the [Register project as a service] permission, both [Read] and [Write] permissions need to be granted.

Project tag settings

To set a tag to a project, select [File]-[Tag] menu action.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Version	The version number of the project.
Date modified	Last modified date of the project.
Modified user	The user who modified the project.
Comment	A comment when the project is committed.
Tag	A tag that is set to the version.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Edit tag	Display tag input dialog.

Project Properties

To view any project relevant information, select [File]-[Properties] menu action.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Description
Location	File location where project files are stored.
Version	Version of the script.
Owner	Owner of the project.
Date created	The date and time the file was originally created.
Date modified	The date and time the project was last modified.

Generate project specifications

To generate project specifications, select [Tools]-[Generate specifications] menu action.

Refer to "Generate project specifications" for more details.

Search project

To search projects, select [Tools]-[Search project] menu action.
The search scope is limited to the server projects in the latest version which are accessible from My Project.

You can copy the search results under the selected nodes to the clipboard.

Available Search Condition

You can mix and match the below conditions when searching a project. Results are matched to one of the conditions below.

Description of items

Search condition		Description	Remarks
Using global resource name	[Contains] [Equals To] [Starts With] [Ends With]	Search a component using a global resource that matches to the specified condition	The Mapper logic is out of the search scope. By using [Containing keyword], you can search a Mapper containing the target logic.
Using service name		Search a Call Script Processing using a service that matches to the specified condition.
Using script name		Search a Call Script Processing using a service that matches to the specified condition.
Using environment variable name		Search a component using a global resource as a property that matches to the specified condition.
Containing script variable name		Search a script variable defining a name that matches to the specified condition.
Containing component name		Search a component defining a name that matches to the specified condition.
Containing keyword		Fuzzy search a component containing the specified keyword.	There are some objects such as a checkbox and a list in which searching is not well performed by the displayed contents. Unrelated components matched to the internal information may be included to search results.

Property action

Item name	Description	Remarks
Search	Search a project with the specified condition.	Do not differentiate capital and small letters.
Clear	Clear search conditions and results to get back to the initial condition.
+	Add a search condition.
-	Delete a search condition.	Unable to delete if only one search condition is selected.

PSP data flow operation

Operating PSP data flow is available from [Tool]-[PSP data flow operation] in the menu.

Description of items

Item name	Description	Remarks
Validates at once	Of all the scripts in the selected projects, modifies the modifiable data flow to PSP data flow.
Releases at once	Of all the scripts in the selected projects, modifies PSP data flow to a data flow.

Specification limit

Restrictions on characters used in the names of projects and scripts.
- Single-byte, double-byte alphanumeric characters and Japanese can be used.
- Other characters which are not allowed to use in DataSpider system files can not be used.
  For more information, please refer to "Restrictions on characters used in DataSpider File System".
About Project download/upload information:
- In Local environment, under $DATASPIDER_HOME/server/home/<User name>/projects, (for example, from Windows Explorer, etc.), after locating the project folder, If you upload that project from My Projects, then you can not open the project.
  When reading project from local, you must locate project to the directory which is not DataSpider installation directory, and use My Projects uploading function.
- Uploading a project from different versions is only supported in the following case.
  - Uploading a project downloaded in the core version (including minor version), one before the current version in use.
- If you upload a project you downloaded by [Download project with all version], the new version will be added to the project.
  However the script execution process itself will be not affected.
- You cannot download the project by [Download a specific version of the project] to the same directory as the project which you downloaded by [Download project with all version].
- If uploading Project by "New Upload" then uploading user will be owner.
- If you upload project by "overwrite upload " or "Add Upload ", then owner of project of uploading destination does not change.
- If you upload project by " overwrite upload " or "Add Upload ", then the service( project which is registered to server)is not updated.
  Open the project by designer, then it will be updated as a service by registering again.

About sharing project

Deleting a shared project can only be done with the owner or administrator of the project.

Action when uploading shared project is as follows.

Type of action	Project Status upload	Details of the action
Upload New	-	Upload your project as unshared.
Commit to an existing project	Unshared	Upload your project as unshared.
Commit to an existing project	Share	Upload a shared project.
Upload Add	Unshared	Upload your project as unshared.
Upload Add	Share	Upload a shared project.