About Workspaces

When you first open Design Studio, you identify a workspace to use in the Workspace Launcher dialog box. If the workspace that you specify does not exist, Design Studio creates it on your local machine. Always use Design Studio to create your workspaces. Do not, for example, copy workspaces between Design Studio installations. You can use more than one workspace, but you can have only one workspace open at a time.

To ensure that you do not adversely impact Design Studio performance, do not select a network location as your workspace and do not share workspaces and projects by referencing shared network file locations. When working in a multiuser environment, use a recommended source control system. See the Design Studio Developer's Guide for more information about working with source control.

Do not distribute workspaces using archive files. For example, if you need to distribute projects among team members, do not create an archive file that contains a workspace and the set of projects for distribution. If you receive a workspace contained in an archive file from a team member, unzip the file and import the projects using the Import Studio Projects menu action.

Note:

After you install Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12.1.1.2, the first time that you open Design Studio (and every time you create a new workspace), the system displays a message if it cannot locate the Git source control installation directory. If your team does not use Git as a source control, select Do not warn again if Git cannot be found and click OK. When the system displays a second prompt, select Do not show again and click OK.

If your team does use GIT as your source control, ensure that you define the source control settings as appropriate to your environment. See the Design Studio Developer's Guide for more information about working with source control.