Saving a project in the Editor

You can save your project, that is, the current content of the Canvas panel. You can save it to your file system, your browser's memory, or use your project to update the last saved version of it in the Navigation Tree panel.

Procedure

  1. Open the Editor.
  2. Build, modify or import a mix.
  3. Switch to the Settings view on the Settings panel.

    Figure: Settings view menu


  4. Click SAVE DOCUMENT.
    The Save dialogue window is displayed.

    Figure: SPARKLĀ® Editor - Save dialogue window


  5. Choose where you want to save the project:
    • Click the FILE SYSTEM tab to save it to your file system
    • Click the BROWSER STORAGE tab to save it to your browser's memory
    • Click the SPARKL tab to deploy it to the Developer Console

Saving to file system

You can save your projects to your local file system. These can be imported into the Editor or directly into the Navigation Tree panel.

Procedure

  1. Select the FILE SYSTEM tab on the Save dialogue window.
  2. Click SAVE TO FILE SYSTEM.

Results

Your project gets saved to your file system as a SPARKL XML file.

Saving to local storage

You can save your projects into the memory of your browser. These do not get deleted even if you uninstall SPARKL or delete the nodes.

Procedure

  1. Select the BROWSER STORAGE tab on the Save dialogue window.
  2. Click SAVE TO LOCAL STORAGE .

Results

Your project gets saved to your browser's memory. You can restore it anytime using the Editor's restore functionality.

Saving to SPARKL

You can deploy your project by saving it directly to the Navigation Tree panel.

Before you begin

Make sure that:
  • Your project has no errors in it. Your project is automatically validated before it gets deployed. You can only deploy it if the validation does not return any error

Procedure

  1. Select the SPARKL tab on the Save dialogue window.
  2. Select the folder where you want to deploy the project.
    The selected folder is highlighted in blue.
  3. Click SAVE.

Results

The project appears on the Navigation Tree panel of the Developer Console.