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Create a Project

If you have just started the OT (i.e. without having loaded a project) the OT displays an empty project in the Project Structure pane. To create a completely new project, in the Menu click on File $\rightarrow$ New Program . If you have a project loaded in the OT already, a dialog box will appear to askif the current project can be overwritten. If you don't want this to happen you should cancel the action and save your project.

After having started a new project, the Projects Structure pane will contain the beginning of a project with the Project node as the root which contains a Science Plan folder. Clicking on the Science Plan folder provides a help message that gives the user basic instructions for creating an observing program. When clicking on the Project node in the Project Structure tree, the Project form will appear in the Editors pane and can be filled in.

For Staff Only
In the Project form, the panel Advanced Options (Staff Only) contains the field Version for the version of the Project and buttons for the Project Mode. These can be Manual , Simulation , Calibration , and Commissioning Mode . Calibration Mode should be checked when it is an Observatory Calibration project. At present this will only make a difference to the project code that is generated on submission. There are no other consequences. The CSV team may choose to use it if they wish. Commisioning Mode should be checked if this is a Commissioning project used by the CSV team. This indicates to Scheduling that this project is not a normal project and will not follow the normal project lifecycle.


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The ALMA OT Team, 2011 May 20