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## Workspaces

In soapUI a Workspace is a collection or Projects (just like in for example eclipse):

- Default workspace information is maintined in the `${user.home}/default-soapui-workspace.xml` file. Switch workspaces using the New/Switch Workspace actions described below, if switching to another workspace, soapUI will remember this until the next session and use that workspace instead.
- Any number of projects can be added to the workspace
- Any number of workspaces can be created

At startup soapUI loads all project files contained in the last used workspace and opens them if they were not previously closed (see below). If a project file is for some reason not available it will be grayed out and displayed as disabled, with right-click options to either remove it from the workspace or reload it (optionally from a new location). Projects can be imported/created and removed from the workspace using the corrsponding actions on the Workspace/Project popup menus. |

When exiting, soapUI will automatically save all project files in the workspace, except for those that still have running tests. A prompt will ask to ignore these or abort the exit. If soapUI detects that a project file has been modified externally since it was last loaded (based on modification date), it will first prompt if to overwrite the file or leave it as it is.

### Open/Closed Projects

Projects can be closed/opened as desired using corresponding popup-menu actions; closed projects are displayed with a grey icon and can easily be opened by either double-clicking them or using the corresponding right-button menu option. Closed projects are not read into memory which will greatly improve startup time/memory consumption and A projects open/close state is remembered in the workspace when restarting/switching workspaces and a global UI Setting is available (see Preferences) for always closing all projects when loading a new workspace.

### Workspace Actions

The following actions are available from the workspace-nodes right-button menu (and from the main "File" menu): New WSDL Project : Prompts to create a new WSDL Project. Import Project : Prompts for a filename for an existing soapui-project. The project will be added to the current workspace. If the project-file is read-only it can still be added but no changes will be saved and a warning will be shown in the soapUI log. Import Remote Project : Prompts for a URL to an existing remote soapui-project. The project will be added to the current workspace in read-only mode (read more on Remote Projects). Save All Projects - Saves all projects Open All Closed Projects - Opens all closed projects. Close All Open Projects - Prompts to close all opened projects. Rename - Renames the Workspace, the name is shown as the label for the root node in the Navigator New Workspace - Prompts to create a new empty workspace. Switch Workspace - Prompts for an existing workspace file to switch to (all current projects will be saved before making the actual switch). Online Help - Displays this page in an external browser |

### Workspace Details Tab

The "Details" tab shown in the bottom-left shows the following values when the workspace node is selected in the navigation tree Name : the name of the current workspace Description : an arbitrary description of the current workspace, displayed as a tooltip over the workspace node in the Navigator. File (read-only): the current workspace file used |

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