MTS Series 793 Controller - Manual (Page 47)

Understanding Projects
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Projects include information:
• Required to perform tests, such as configuration files and test design files;
and
• Generated by testing, such as test data, scope images, and specimen files.
• Captured as a result of unexpected shutdowns (Shutdown Recorder
directory)
Benefits of Projects
The Project Manager (and the ability to create Projects) became available in
version 4.0 of Series 793 System Software. Projects offer the following benefits:
• Projects separate user information from system and controller information.
This eliminates confusion about where your test files are stored, and allows
you to set file access privileges for individual users.
• Projects allow different users to keep the information in their projects
separate from one another.
• Projects allow you to use standard Windows features to add security to,
duplicate, and archive the information stored in them.
• Projects are configurable, allowing you to match your Project with your test
environment.
Your initial Project
The Series 793 Installation Wizard automatically creates an initial Project (with
the default name of Project1), and gives you the option of assigning it as the
default Project.
Note If you have never used Project Manager to assign a default Project but
one is assigned (you are not prompted to select a Project when starting
Series 793 applications), this option was probably selected during
installation.
Upgrade installations
For upgrade installations, you have the option of copying all of your existing test
design and test data files from their original locations to the initial Project (the
files are copied, not moved, so the original files will remain in their original
locations).
For more information
For more information on how projects separate user information from system and
controller information, see
“About Project Information” on page 85.