Project Manager

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The Project Manager is the core of the Editor. Here the current workspace with its projects is displayed. The Project manager is the central interface for the functionality of projects.

The Projekt Manger with the entries of the project tree is explained in detail in the video Project Manager.

If an entry in the tree is selected, the proper information is displayed in the Detailview of the Project Manager.

The following contents of projects can be administered in the Project Manager:

Variables	Administration of the variables
Drivers	List of the drivers used in the project
Data types	Administration of the datatypes
Reaction matrix	Administration of reaction matrices
Allocations	Administraton of Allocations
Pictures	Administration of the pictures
Templates	Administration of the templates
Fonts	Administration of the fonts and font lists
Functions	Administration of the functions
Scripts	Administration of the scripts
Language table	Language tables for the online language change
Archives	Administration of the archives (optional module)
Recipes	Adminsitraton of the recipes
Standard recipes	Administration of the standard recipes
Recipegroups	Administration of the Recipegroup Manager (optional module)
Time control	Administration of the time control
Scripting	Administration of Process Control Engine (PCE) and VBA.
Process Control Engine (PCE)	Programming tool, allowing monitoring and control of processes (optional module)
VBA macros	Administration of VBA macros
straton	straton® is an IEC 61131-3 Interface
Production and Facility Scheduler	Production & Facility Scheduler (optional module)
Interlockings	Administration of the interlockings
Message Control	Message Control (optional module)
Menus	Administration of the Runtime menus
Reports	Administration of the reports (optional module)
Users	Administration of the users and access rights
Files	Administration of external files External files cannot be edited with tools provided with zenon. You can edit them using external standard software programs which can be called up by menu item open with in the context menu of the file.
History of changes	Traceability of changes in the project
Project backups	Saves the Editor files. Also see chapter Project administration, section Backup and export project.

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An external program has to be used to edit these external files. Engineering the help in the Editor (Engineering in the Editor, h_rt_help_projektierung_der_hilfe_im_editor.htm)

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Single Elements of the projectmanager (e.g. variables) can be displayed in a separate Window with the entry Open in new window in the context menu. So it is possible to work on variables and functions at the same time, for example.