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<h1>
Project Explorer view</H1>
<P CLASS="Intro">
The Project Explorer view provides a hierarchical view of the resources in the Workbench.
From here, you can open files for editing or select resources for operations such
as exporting.</p>
<P CLASS="Para">
<img src="../images/Image241_nav_view.png" alt="Picture of Project Explorer view showing a simple hierarchy (project, folders, files)" border="0"></P>
<P CLASS="Para">
Right-click on any resource in the Project Explorer view to open a pop-up menu that
allows you to perform operations such as copying, moving, creating new
resources, comparing resources with each other, or performing team
operations. To see a description of what each menu item does, move selection
highlight to that menu item and press the context-sensitive help key (e.g., F1
on Microsoft Windows).</P>
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By default, the Project Explorer view is included in the Resources perspective. To add it
to the current perspective, click
<a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.views.showView(org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ProjectExplorer)")'>
<img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png" alt="command link">
<b>Window &gt; Show View &gt; Other... &gt; General &gt; Project Explorer</b></a>.</P>
<h2>
Toolbar</h2>
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The toolbar of the Project Explorer view contains the following buttons:</P>
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<dt>Collapse All</dt>
<dd>Collapses the tree expansion state of all resources in the view.</dd>
<dt>Link with Editor</dt>
<dd>Toggles whether the Project Explorer view selection is linked to the active editor.
When this option is selected, changing the active editor will automatically update the
Project Explorer selection to the resource being edited.</dd>
<dt>Menu</dt>
<dd>Provides menu items that allow you to sort or filter the contents of the
Project Explorer view as well as select a working set.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Icons</h2>
<p CLASS="Para">The following icons can appear in the Project Explorer view.</p>
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<p CLASS="Para">Icon</p>
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<p CLASS="Para">Description</p>
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<td ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ref-10.png" alt="Open project icon" border="0"></td>
<td ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">
Project (open) </td>
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<td ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ref-12.png" alt="Folder icon" border="0"></td>
<td ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">
Folder
</td>
</tr>
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<td COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ref-15.png" alt="File icon" border="0"></td>
<td COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> File</td>
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<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br>
<a href="concepts-12.htm">Resources</a><br>
<a href="concepts-5.htm">Views</a>
</p>
<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-48b.htm">Showing or hiding files in the Project Explorer view</a><br>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-3.htm">Opening views</a><br>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-3e.htm">Moving and docking views</a><br>
</p>
<P><IMG border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related reference" ><br>
<a href="../reference/ref-27.htm">Project Explorer view</a>
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