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These are described in further detail below.

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Note: When you open Servoy (after closing the Welcome window), you will see an iServoy view in the Editor area. This view shows links to online Servoy resources and headlines, including the online forum, blog, new releases, and events. When you close and reopen Servoy, the perspective will load with the last set of editors that were active or loaded before closing.

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The Solution Explorer view is a hierarchal tree view of all the objects available in Servoy Developer. It is central to the Servoy development environment; everything you can do in Developer can be found in the Solution Explorer.

The Solution Explorer has two parts, the tree of objects (appears on top) and a contextual list (appears below). Depending on what is selected in the tree view, different objects will appear in the list view.

The following nodes in the Solution Explorer are of note:

  • Resources – Within the Resources project are the list of database servers, styles, security options, i18n files, and templates available to the user within the current workspace.
  • All solutions – Lists the Servoy project solutions in the current workspace. A solution can be activated from this list for development by right-clicking on the solution name and selecting Activate Solution.
  • The Active Solution – Only one solution can be active at a time, and it is shown as a node in Solution Explorer. You can then expand the solution's node to reveal its contents---globals, forms, relations, valuelists, media, and modules. Further information about each item, when selected, will be displayed on the lower half of the Solution explorer.
  • JS Lib – The JS Lib node contains a list of preformatted scripts available for use in Servoy.
  • Plugins – This node allows access to user-installed plugins and extensions.

Users can open and work with any resource from the Solution explorer by selecting the resource and accessing the context menu. In addition, the following toolbar at the top of Solution Explorer provides navigational functions:

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  • Problems show warnings for items that are automatically highlighted based on Preferences set.
  • Tasks list automatically or manually generated TODO items marked during development.
  • Bookmarks are added to a line of script via the menu item, Edit>Add Edit > Add Bookmark. They are then listed in order of appearance in the Bookmarks view.

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Other views are available via the menu item Window>Show Window > Show View. Newly activated views are typically shown on the right panel (as a tab next to Properties), but users can drag the tab to any desired location in the perspective. Once a view is active, it will remain in the perspective even when Servoy is closed and reopened. The default Servoy Design Perspective can be reset at any time using Window>Reset Window > Reset Perspective, provided the modified perspective was not saved as the default Servoy Design Perspective.

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