Perspectives

A perspective provides a set of capabilities that enable you to work with resources to perform a task.

A perspective is the arrangement of views and editors in the Workbench.

Views provide ways to navigate and work with resources. Each view has associated menus and may have its own toolbar.
Editors provide tools to create and modify resources.
Menu bars and context menus provide the items you need to create and manipulate resources.
Creation wizards, which are associated with the resources in a view, guide you through the process of creating resources, for example, a project.
Cheat sheets guide you through complex tasks by either showing you how to perform the task or performing some of the task for you. A cheat sheet opens as a view in a perspective.

More than one perspective can be open, but only one perspective at a time can be displayed in the Workbench. When more than one perspective is open, you can select the perspective that you want to display from the Perspective shortcut bar.

Opening a Perspective
Open a perspective to work with its resources to perform a task.
Rearranging Views in a Perspective
You can rearrange the views in a perspective by moving a view to a new docking location in the perspective.
Resetting an Active Perspective to its Default Appearance
After you customize a perspective, you can return to its default layout.
Resetting an Inactive Perspective to its Default Appearance
After you customize a perspective, you can return to the default layout.
Perspective Shortcut Bar
Use the Perspective shortcut bar to quickly access open perspectives.
Moving the Perspective Shortcut Bar
The Perspective shortcut bar runs horizontally in the upper left corner of a perspective by default.

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