Creating a Project File with the Project Editor

Let’s try creating our project file via the Project Editor. To open the Project Editor, on the Navigation Tree, click Automator > Standard Processes, and select Project Editor.

When creating a new project file via the Project Editor, you may perform the following steps:

q  Specify general settings - General settings specify an author for the project file, its name and provide a description of it.

q  Specify a model setting - When you specify a model setting, you assign a model to the project, and specify the desired verification settings, if any.

q  Specify input settings - Input settings specify the input file type (i.e., text or database), the input file(s) you want to assign to the project, how multiple input files should be grouped, etc.

q  Specify export settings - When you specify project export settings, you specify an export (or exports) of export files and specify any distribution actions you want to apply to them.

q  Specify prerequisite settings - When you specify prerequisite settings, you add a file prerequisite or a command line prerequisite to the project. Any prerequisites you add must first be met if the associated process is to run.

q  Specify script settings - Script settings allow you to, among other things, specify pre-export and post-export scripts to modify the input and export files.