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Manage Workspace Layout
As you perform work on your model you use various toolbars and windows; you will quite likely use the same toolbars and windows regularly, in an arrangement that suits the way in which you use the system. Rather than having to re-open and arrange these tools at the start of each work session, you can use either a predefined or a customized work environment or workspace. Workspaces:
| · | Automatically open and organize all the tools appropriate to an area of work such as Requirements Management, Code Engineering and Debugging |
| · | Help a new user by: |
| · | Opening the tools that are appropriate to a task so that they can immediately get started, and |
| · | Showing the user what tools they should become familiar with for that area of work |
| · | Help you switch rapidly to work environments for either successive or completely different areas of work |
| · | Re-establish a work environment that you have accidentally or deliberately changed |
To select, create and maintain workspaces you use the Workspaces tab on the Workspace and Commands dialog, which lists the currently-available system and user-defined layouts.
Access View | Perspectives > Workspaces or
View | Toolbars | Workspace Layouts: 
(Manage Workspaces) > Workspaces
Manage Layouts
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Change workspace layout |
The Current Workspace Layout field at the bottom of the Workspaces and Commands dialog identifies the layout last selected. You might have moved or closed windows after applying that layout. The (Copy of existing Workspace Layout) at the top of the Available Workspaces list is a capture of the workspace layout immediately before you opened the dialog. You can change the layout to:
To change the layout in use, either:
When you change the workspace layout in use, the layout name in the toolbar layout field also changes.
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Copy workspace layout |
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The Save Custom Workspace Layout dialog displays. In the Custom Workspace Layout Name field, type a name for the layout. By selecting an existing name you can change an existing layout to something different. Click on the Save button. If you already have tailored windows or views open that you want to include in your selected layout, select the Include active custom views checkbox.
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Delete workspace layout
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Right-click on the layout name and select the Delete context menu option. A prompt displays for you to confirm or cancel the deletion.
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Notes
| · | If you apply a working set that invokes floating diagrams or views, it will override the current workspace layout with the layout that was in use when the working set was defined |
| · | If you develop a workspace layout that would be useful for your colleagues, you can share it with them by incorporating it in an MDG Technology that they can download |
Learn more
| · | Create MDG Technologies (MDG Technology Wizard - Contents screen) |
Learning Center topics
| · | (Alt+F1) | Enterprise Architect | Getting Started | User Interface | Saving Workspace Layouts |
| · | (Alt+F1) | Enterprise Architect | Getting Started | User Interface | Change Workspace Layout |
