Managing Workspaces
Thank you for joining me for this video. For Servoy University, I’m Bob Huesick. In this video, we’re going to talk about workspaces, what they are and how to create them. Think of a workspace like a folder or a container that contains all of your solutions. When you first install Servoy, a default Servoy workspaces created for you. They get created in your user folder. Then all the solutions that you create are packaged into that one workspace. You can have multiple workspaces based on anything you want. So you may have a workspace by customer or a workspace by project. So you can organize them however you want and create them is super easy. Let me show you how. Because there’s nothing more than a folder, here you can see that I have several workspaces. I have a generic one, demo one, customer A, I have a workspace for my Servoy seven stuff. There’s all kinds of different ways that I like to organize my work. So let’s go ahead and make a new one. I’m going to go ahead and just right-click and see Make a New folder. And we’ll call this one Bob Workspace. That’s it. So now what we’ll do is we’ll come back in the Servoy developer and come up to the file menu here and we’ll choose switch workspace. Choose the other. So this shows me the current workspace that I’m using. Mine is called Servoy Workspace demo. Let’s go ahead and change that. I’m going to click Browse. Let’s go down here to Bob Workspace. Now you can also copy settings. So you workbench layout, how to do with your perspectives and how you set up your IDE. So if you’ve done a lot of work and you’ve maybe moved around the tabs or you’ve shown extra tabs and hidden tabs, if you click Workbench Layout, copy the settings, your new workspace settings will copy these exact settings over to your new workspace. Likewise, working sets have to do with your fines. So you can go ahead and copy those over as well. I’m going to click OK. And so now what’s going to happen is Servoy is going to restart. OK and now that Servoy is restarted using the Servoy workspace, it thinks that we’ve never been here before because we haven’t. So I’m going to click it and start it. And then you can see the familiar startup page. You can then go ahead and switch during the same procedure so I can go back to my workspace demo, the other one that I was working in. And as you add these other workspace locations, this list will continue to grow so you can swap between them. But you will have to restart Servoy each time you switch workspaces. Well those are the basics of workspaces. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching.