FilesAndFolders

Files and Folder View

At startup the application will recognize a single file pathname as a command-line argument. If a file name is given, that file will be opened in the editor and the Folder View will be set to display the folder containing the file (if the configuration option for displaying the Folder View is enabled).

The standard menu option File/Open File can be used to look up a folder and select a file. The default file type is *.HL7, but you can change this to *.TXT or *.* to access files with other extensions.

Folder View

The Folder View can be used to select files from a specific folder. The menu option View/Folder View or hot-key F2 can be used to display or hide the Folder View. The configuration option ShowFolderView determines if the Folder View will be opened at startup. When working with very large sets of files it may be better to disable this setting, as the application currently loads the entire file list and can take some time (this will be fixed in the near future).

The Location selection is used to choose a predifined 'bucket' location to be listed in the Folder View (see configuration - Message Buckets). The Folder View will be populated with all files in the selected folder which appear to have HL7 content. In the View menu you can also switch the Folder View listing to show just the file names, or a summary of the file types.

Click on a file in the Folder View to open that file in the main view. If you have edited the file that is currently loaded, the application will prompt you to save your changes before opening the selected file.