Refresh the Recent Project List on the Start Page

[kjain9]

The Recent Project list on the Start page does not reflect if any project is deleted/Renamed from the Windows File System.
So, when the user clicks on it the next time, an error message is displayed.
It would be nice, if the project list displays the valid projects.

[«Midnight»]

This has come up before.

IIRC the whole issue comes down to a balancing act. Each application vendor has to choose one way or the other, and that defines how this kind of thing works for the user community.

Some applications - examples are some MS Office components and Visual Studio - check each location on startup, making the necessary deletions. This can take considerable time; consider network scenarios in particular. In the case of EA, you might incur multiple DBMS logins if there are repository projects in your project list.

Other applications - EA is in this camp - just publish the list. The 'kinder' ones allow you to remove entries without too much effort. In the you can do this from the Open Project dialog. There is no 'standard' link to this dialog on the start page, but you can invoke it with the Open button or via the main menu with File | Open Project.

Select (but don't open) an item in the list. You can then click the Remove Selection from List button above the file list.

David

PS: I'm not defending or complaining about Sparx' decision. I'm just trying to tell you what it looks like to me.

[kjain9]

I totally understand. Thanks for pointing out a solution.