Project manager dialogue

Project manager dialogue is a tool which helps user to open, create or browse projects. It allows to adapt protection settings, use links and other options to manage the SCIA Engineer or find more information about it.

All these functionalities are stored in one dialogue.

Project information preview

The biggest advantage of the dialogue is a project information preview. Each project is complemented by a picture of a structure and basic information such as name, author, number of members, calculated results ...

• The top "play" button opens the selected project;
• Preview displays the slide-show of images from the project, it can be listed by arrows;
• The table contains the standard information about the project data, structure and calculation;

When the Project manager dialogue appears?

The dialogue is displayed when user clicks on icon "Start project manager" on the basic application toolbar.

Using Project manager dialogue

Creating a new project

A new project may be created by

• clicking [Blank Project]: a new, empty project is created in SCIA Engineer;
  the user is entirely free to define the configuration of the project
• selecting a template project from the [Templates] section

Recent projects

User can select and open one from recent projects he worked on in the past. List of those projects is the same as is available in SCIA Engineer main menu. Opening of the project can be done using double click.

List of recent project is updated after restart of SCIA Engineer.

Browse

This button launch the system Open file dialogue and enables to select any wanted SCIA Engineer project file.

All standard functions are supported (Copy, Paste, New folder etc.).

Tutorials

A selection of tutorials and example projects is available in the [Tutorials] section.

For each tutorial project, a step-by-step PDF document is provided (document link at the top of the project information preview).

Learning center & other documentation

Additionally to the tutorials, several links are provided to documentation.

• Learning Center: direct access to quick start training videos and documentation for first time users
• Resource Center: general documentation about SCIA Engineer (fact sheets, technical articles, and more...)
• SCIA Website: SCIA homepage
• Web Help: general online help of SCIA Engineer

Protection settings in Start project dialogue

The Protection setup dialogue can be started using the button Protection setting. Changes done in the protection setting are respected after a small delay. In case the SCIA Engineer is running, any changes done in the protection setting will be applied after restart of the application.

In case of missing license the Protection setting button becomes flashing and red.

Search and sort the list of projects

The list of projects which is available for above mentioned tabs has common behavior.

Search

It is possible to filter it using the "Search" field.

Sort

It is possible to sort the list according to one of columns. The sorting is switched by clicking on the column header. It have sequentially following three possible values (none, ascending, descending).

The Project manager dialogue is skipped in case the "Open last project" is selected in the setting of Action on start-up in SCIA Engineer.

User can switch to old project manager in setup.