Starting the RTView Display Builder

To build and run dashboard projects, start the Display Builder from the command line.

Prerequisites

Start the Server.

Task

Running the Display Builder from the adapter installation folder in the command line ensures that the Builder links to the Server upon start-up.

Sybase recommends that you place each dashboard project in its own folder. You can then start the Display Builder from this folder.

To start a new dashboard project, create a new folder for it. To open an existing project, select Start > Run.
Start the project in the RTView Display Builder by typing:
```
%RTVIEWADAPTER_HOME%\bin\start_builder.bat <project_filepath> [<rtv_file_name>.rtv]
```
- <project_filepath> is the absolute file path of the project folder.
- <rtv_file_name> is the name of an existing dashboard. When creating a new .rtv file, do not supply a file name: the Display Builder opens into a blank dashboard called unnamed.rtv, which you can then save with a desired name into the new dashboard project folder created in step 1.
Note: On Windows, if you type the start builder command and use only the project folder argument without a file name, it looks for a file named "<projectfolder>.rtv". If such a file does not exist in the folder,you see a message that the file cannot be opened. Click OK to launch the builder. This is a known RTView issue.