Manage Project Files

Choose Views of Files to Manage

Use the Project File Management view to explore project files, interact with source control, view modified or labeled files, and save tasks or shortcuts.

1. Click Management in the Project tree.

2. Use the nodes in the tree to choose the view with the files you want to manage:

   • All Files — View all files within your project folder (or projectroot). This list can be different from the list in the Project Files node. For example, you might want to exclude some files under projectroot from your project, such as SVN or CVS source control folders.

   • Project Files — View only files added to your project. This list can be different from the list of all files within your project folder.

   • Modified Files— View only files with changes in your project. This view is available only if you are using a source control integration with your project. See Review Changes and Commit Modified Files.

   • Shortcuts — View files you have specified as shortcuts for frequent tasks, such as opening top-level models, running startup or shutdown code, or simulating models. You can set up shortcuts to run when you open or close your project, or to run manually. The Shortcuts node is blank until you create shortcuts from the All Files or Project Files views. See Create Shortcuts to Set Up Projects and Run Frequent Tasks.

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Group and Sort File Views

To group and sort the views in all File Management nodes:

• Use the List or Tree buttons at top right to switch between a flat list of files and a hierarchical tree of files.

  In a list view, you can click the Hide Folders button if you only want to view files.

  

• Click the Actions button (next to the Tree button) to select the columns to display and select groupings, for example, to sort by Review Status labels or any labels you have defined.

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Work With Project Files

In all File Management nodes:

• Use the right-click menus to perform actions on the files that you are viewing. Right-click a file (or selected multiple files) to perform project options such as:

  • Open or run files

  • Add and remove files from the project

  • Add, change and remove labels. See Label Files.

  • Create entry point shortcuts (for example, code to run at start up or shut down, open models, simulate or generate code). See Create Shortcuts to Set Up Projects and Run Frequent Tasks.

  • If a source control interface is enabled you can also:

    • Refresh source control status

    • Update from source control

    • Check for modifications

    • Revert

    • Compare against revision (select a version to compare)

    See Interface with Source Control from Projects.

  

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Back Out Changes

Use the Undo buttons to back out recent changes. Use the Undo or Redo buttons and their drop-down list buttons to undo or redo recent actions in the project.

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Label Files

Use labels to organize your files. The Project automatically applies built-in labels for File categories. You can create your own labels.

• In the File Management views, right-click a file (or multiple selected files) to add or remove labels. Once added to a file, a label persists across revisions of the file.

• In the File Management views, you can organize lists by labels. Use the Actions button (cog icon at top right) and select Group By.

• Use the Labels tree node to create new label categories.

The Labels view:

1. To add a new category of labels, right-click in the blank areas of the Categories list and select Create New.

   1. In the dialog box, enter a name for the new category.

   2. If only one label of the category can be attached to a file at a time, then select the check box Single Valued.

      For example, if you want to create a category with labels for Prototype and Release and only want to apply one of those labels to any specific file, then select Single Valued to ensure only one label can be attached.

   3. If desired, change the Type selection to change the data type that can be stored in the label, e.g., double, logical, integer, string, or none.

   4. Click Create to create your new category.

2. To add a new label in your new category, right-click in the blank areas of the Labels list and select Create New.

   1. In the dialog box, enter a name for the new label.

   2. Click OK to create the label.

   3. Repeat to create more labels in your selected category.

3. To delete labels, right-click to Remove selected user-defined categories and labels. You cannot delete built-in labels.

To add labels at the command line, see the Simulink.ModelManagement.Project.CurrentProject reference page.

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Add Files and Discover Required Project Files

Create Shortcuts to Set Up Projects and Run Frequent Tasks

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