Exercise 3.1: Selecting the project and source members

You will use the product to do the WebFacing conversion, if it is not up and running already, start it now. If it is still up and running on your workstation you are ready to go ahead.

If the WebFacing perspective with your project is not visible, you need to open the WebFacing perspective.

Opening the WebFacing perspective

To open the WebFacing perspective:

  1. Check the taskbar of the workbench for the WebFacing perspective icon and if you find it, click on the icon to switch to the WebFacing perspective that is already open but not active at the moment.

    Tip: Avoid having too many instances of the same perspective open. It will improve performance of the workbench if you restrict yourself to one instance of a specific perspective being open. We have seen situations with 50 perspectives being open at the same time; this has caused severe performance impacts, so be careful.

    Here you see the icons on the taskbar of the workbench. The Remote System Explorer perspective is active. The workbench window title bar shows this. Four perspectives are open in the workbench.
    Workbench taskbar icons

  2. To switch to the WebFacing perspective. Select its icon WebFacing perspective icon from the taskbar.

    Tip: The icon Open perspective icon on top of the taskbar allows you to open a new perspective.

    Next you start the conversion in the WebFacing perspective.

Selecting members to convert

To select members to convert:

  1. Select the WebFacing project you have been working on in the previous module, wflabxx.
  2. Expand this project by clicking the plus sign (+) beside its icon in the WebFacing Projects view.
    Expand DDS folder

    You should see a DDS folder in the expanded view.

    If you don't see a DDS folder, you might be in the Navigator view and not in the WebFacing Projects view.

  3. Check that the view title bar is not WebFacing projects.
  4. Locate the WebFacing Projects tab at the top of the list view, and click it.
    WebFacing Projects tab

    Now the WebFacing Projects view should be active and you should be able to find the DDS folder.
    DDS folder

  5. Expand the DDS folder, so that you can see all three of the members that you selected in the previous module.

    Next you convert these members.

You have selected members to convert and now you are ready to begin Exercise 3.2: Starting the WebFacing conversion.