The Change Project command allows you to select the Project in which to work.  It also allows you to create, modify, rename, copy and erase the definitions of Projects.

When you select the Change Project command, you enter the Project Library dialog box and are presented with a list (under the Select a project to use parameter) of all the Projects defined within the current client. In addition, the list will contain an entry for the “<ProAdmin>” Universe. Projects are subsets of the client that provide access only to some objects that have been defined, whereas "<ProAdmin>" allows access to all objects in the client.  For example, in the Universe <ProAdmin> mode, all items, or objects, in the Benefit Definition library will be visible, whereas in a Project, some of the Benefit Definition library entries might be hidden from view.

In the Project Library, you may take the following actions:

• Enter an existing Project, either by double-clicking its name in the list or by selecting it (with a single click) and then clicking the Open button. The selected Project will then be displayed in the tool bar at the top of the screen (immediately below the ProAdmin menus).

• Create a new Project, by clicking the New button, which leads to the Project Definition dialog box, in which you provide ProAdmin with the information needed to define the new Project.

• Edit an existing Project, by selecting it from the list (with a single click) and then clicking the Edit button, which leads to the Project Definition dialog box, in which you can modify the definition of this Project.  Only one Project may be edited at a time and the <ProAdmin> Universe may not be edited.

The parameters of the Project definition dialog box are discussed in a separate section at the end of this article.

Click the Rename button to change a Project’s name. The <ProAdmin> Universe project may not be renamed.

Click the Copy button to make a copy of the highlighted Project(s). Copied projects will have the same unhidden objects as the original Project(s). Multiple Projects may be selected to be copied at once; however, the <ProAdmin> Universe project may not be copied.

Click the Erase button to erase the highlighted Project(s). Note that erasing a Project does not erase the unhidden objects associated with that Project; it merely deletes this definition the Project denotes of a subset of the Universe. Multiple Projects may be selected to be erased at once; however, the <ProAdmin> Universe project may not be erased.

Project Definition dialog box parameters

Project Name may be arbitrarily long and may include spaces and special characters

Check the Unhide All Objects box to make visible, and thus available, within the selected Project all objects currently defined, without the need to click the Unhide button on the dialog box of each object's library. 

Replace, Save as New, Erase, and Cancel work in the same manner here as throughout ProAdmin. Clicking any of these buttons will bring you back to the list of Projects.