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Bug 362968

Summary:	Request new feature to organize and show some projects as one unit just like visual studio solution does
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jeffery Yuan <yuanyun.kenny>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	deepakazad, tom.schindl, yuanyun.kenny
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jeffery Yuan

2011-11-05 10:35:21 EDT

Build Identifier: N/A

Usually, we develop or maintain different projects at same time, each project has multiple modules, or related projects, such as test or demo projects.

Could eclipse provide a way like visual studio solution - that allows us to organize related projects into solution(or other name), in project explorer, it would like this:

solution
---projecta-module1
---projecta-module2
---projecta-module3
---projecta-other-modules

solutionB
---projectb--related-modules

.... other projects

So we can easily find the projects we want. We can operate on this solution as a unit, such as expand, collapse, close, clean, build all projects of one solution.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Not applicable

Comment 1 Deepak Azad

2011-11-05 10:42:30 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> So we can easily find the projects we want. We can operate on this solution as
> a unit, such as expand, collapse, close, clean, build all projects of one
> solution.
You can use 'working sets' to do some of these things - expand, collapse, close etc. Have you given those a try ?

Comment 2 Jeffery Yuan

2011-11-05 11:22:24 EDT

Thanks for the reply, and I know "working set", use it sometimes - such as search something in one working set.

But the function I would like to have is that - if I add some projects in to one working set, then in the navigator, (project|package) explore, it would show this working set visually, and all projects would be put into it logically, such as:
ProjectA-working-set
----projecta-related-modules

When I click on the working set, it would allow us to clean, build, collapse, or expand these projects.
This would help us to organize projects visually.

Comment 3 Thomas Schindl

2011-11-05 11:28:11 EDT

but you can organize your project/package explorer exactly like this using the "View-menu > Top Level Elements > Working Sets"

Comment 4 Jeffery Yuan

2011-11-05 11:47:30 EDT

This is exactly what I want.
Deepak Azad, and Tom Schindl. Thanks very much for your reply.

I did google this but didn't find useful info, and also asked in google plus, no answer too. Next time I would first ask in eclipse forum first.
I also guess Eclipse has many great features that I don't know yet.

btw, I think some default behavior of eclipse may be changed, such as be default, it should show working sets as top elements - after all there must be some reason user create one working set, and after he create it, he may want to see it.

"Link with Editor" on navigator, (project|package) explore should be default enabled - I was bothered by this for a very long time.

Thanks again...