File menu when the application is first started:
File menu with one or more active projects and the root node selected:
File menu with one or more active projects and a project node selected:
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You
can use the File Menu for loading, creating, closing and saving
projects or for exiting the Pavement LCA application. Some File
menu items are either enabled or disabled depending on whether one or
more projects have been opened. This menu is always accessible.
The options available from the File Menu are:
- New
- Selecting this option allows the user to create a new project.
- Open
- Selecting
this option allows the user to open a project that has been previously
saved to a file on disk. If the project being loaded was created using
an older version of the Pavement LCA, then the file will be interogated and a warning message
will be displayed detailing which assemblies you may need to validate
because of updates and whether the project contained any extra
materials that are no longer supported and were subesequntly removed
from the project.
When a project is loading, one of the file validation steps is to import the Custom Material Composite Product Library records that were used in the project. This is an important step that is meant to ensure that Composite Product records used in a specific project are transferrable when a project is shared between different users each having different Composite Product Libraries. If a conflict is encountered between a Composite Product that is embedded in the proect file and an existing Composite Product Library record, the "Custom Material Composite Product Library Record Conflict Resolution" dialog will be automatically launched.
- Close
- Selecting
this option allows the user to close a selected project. If the
selected project has been modified or was newly created, the user will
asked to save the changes. This option is available only if one or more projects are open.
- Close All
- Selecting
this option allows the user to close all currently open projects.
Before being closed, each open project is checked to see if it has been
modified. If a project has been modified or was newly created, the user
will asked to save the changes before the project is closed. This option is available only if one or more projects are open.
- Save
- Selecting
this option allows the user to save the currently active project. If
the project is a new project the user will be asked to specify a file
and directory pathway to which to save the project. If the project is
one that has been opened from a file the project will be saved back to
that same file. This option is available only if one or more projects are open and one project is active.
- Save As
- Selecting this option allows the user to save the currently active project while specifying the new file name. This option is available only if one or more projects are open and one project is active.
- Save All
- Selecting
this option allows the user to save all open projects. For new projects
the user will be asked to specifiy a directory and filename that they
wish to save the project to. For projects that were opened from a file
will be saved to that same file without notification. This option is available only if one or more projects are open.
- Export
- Selecting this menu option allows the user to export a summary file containing Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Life Cycle Effects (LCE) summary data to an XML file. This feature is inteneded to be used for import into an LCC software tool.
- Recent Projects
- This
is not a specific item in the menu, but rather it is a list of up to
ten of the most recently opened projects. By selecting one of the
projects that project will be immediately opened.
- Exit
- If
this is selected all open projects will be closed and the Pavement LCA application will quit. Before being closed, each open project
is checked to see if it has been modified. If a project has been
modified or was newly created, the user will asked to save the changes
before the project is closed.
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