Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge enables you to use an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to create business processes, which are administered as BPM project files. The IDE project includes all Business Process files (SPT files), Web application files (SWT files), and rule files (BPS files), as well as the folder structure containing those files, their paths, settings, and required resources.
These files and resources are used to load, save, build, or run a project. The project is an organizational tool: the files you open in a project can be in any folder. Restructuring a project tree has no effect on a folder tree, providing independent control of projects and folder structure.
To open Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge:
1. From the Start menu, select Programs > Progress > Developer Studio.
2. Use the Workspace Launcher dialog box to select a workspace which you can use to create or modify business processes.
a. Click Browse to open the Select Workspace Directory dialog box that enables you to locate another workspace folder. Click Make New Folder to create a new workspace folder at the selected location.
b. Select the Use this as the default... checkbox to automatically launch the workspace displayed in the Workspace list and to make it the default workspace. Selecting this check box prevents this dialog box from appearing the next time you start Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. If you want to re-activate the Workspace Launcher dialog box, click Preferences from the Window menu, and select General > Startup and Shutdown > Workspaces, and then select the Prompt for workspace on startup checkbox.
c. Click OK to open Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge in the workspace shown in the Workspace drop-down list. Once you have selected a workspace, you can later open the Workspace Launcher dialog box by selecting File > Switch Workspace.
After you have selected your workspace, the Welcome page appears if you are opening Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge for the first time.
