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Bug 151395

Summary: Group projects hierarchically
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mario Lassnig <eclipse>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Mario Lassnig CLA 2006-07-21 07:48:34 EDT 
Hi all,
I have many projects in my workspace, where about 4-5 projects each make up one 'large overall project' so to speak. It would be great if projects could be organised hierarchically in the project navigation view (the semantics is that I would like to hide all alien projects than the one I am currently working on).

So for example (as it is now):
+Project A
+Project B
+Project C
+Project D
+Project E

but actually project X _is_ projects A and B, and project Y _is_ projects C, D and E (this is not a technological thing but an organisational one).
So if I'm working on project X, I want to hide project Y. And not in the sense of a "closed project" as it is now but hidden in a tree like structure.

So the view would be:

+Project X
+-Project A
+-Project B
+Project Y (hide here)
+-Project D (-> hidden)
+-Project E (-> hidden)
+-Project F (-> hidden)

I know that I can cross-reference projects, but I just want a visual treat because I always lose track of corresponding projects.

Thank you for consideration,
Mario
Comment 1 Wayne Beaton CLA 2006-07-21 09:25:09 EDT 
You can define working sets that I believe do exactly what you're looking for. In the Package Explorer, hit the little "down triangle" and you'll see some options concerning working sets.
Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2006-07-21 10:26:34 EDT 
You also get the hierarchy if you change the top level elements to "Working Sets" there. However, I would love to see that in the navigator too together with a quick filter. ;)
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2006-07-21 16:24:39 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35973 ***