Main menu / master toolbar

The Main Menu

The round main menu button can be found in the top left corner of the main application window. It remains accessible throughout your entire articy:draft session and provides access to the most essential features.

After launch of the application

• License management: Brings up the license manager. There you can view, activate and deactivate your license.
• About articy:draft: Shows an info screen with details about your articy:draft version.

After opening a project

• New window: Opens a new window. Click here to learn more about multiple windows in articy:draft.
• Save project: Saves your changes to your hard disk. In multi-user environments, changes are also stored locally. You need to publish partitions to upload your changes to the server.
• Export project: Allows exporting your project to XML, Word, Excel or articy:access format.
• Change profile/password: MULTI-USER Brings up a profile editing window for the user currently logged in
• Edit users in project MULTI-USER Brings up a project staff editing window where users can be added to / removed from the project.
• Reset layout: Discards your current window/pane layout and presents you a fresh jumpstart screen
• About articy:draft: Shows an info screen with details about your articy:draft version.
• Close project: Closes the current project and goes back to the project selector

The Master Toolbar

Next to the main menu you can find the master toolbar with buttons for frequently used commands.

• ( 1 ) New window: Opens a new window. Click here to learn more about multiple windows in articy:draft.
• ( 2 ) Save project: Saves your changes to your hard disk. In multi-user environments, changes are also stored locally. You need to publish partitions to upload your changes to the server.
• ( 3 ) Undo: Undoes the last thing you've done.
• ( 4 ) Redo: Redoes the last thing you've undone.
• ( 5 ) Notifications: Opens the notification window.
• ( 6 ) Nevigo Help Center: Opens this online help directly from articy:draft.

Multi-user-related info in the main-menu MULTI-USER

Those elements of the master toolbar are only displayed in multi-user mode:

• ( 1 ) Connection / login info: Displays your current user (and rights level) as well as the server you're connected to.
• ( 2 ) Connectivity status: The signal light indicates the connectivity status. (see below for a "disconnected" example)
• ( 3 ) Recent activity: Informs you about the last claiming/publishing activity of other users.

If you loose connection to the server, the connectivity status ( 1 ) will change:

You can still save your changes (locally) and reconnect later to publish your changes to the server, so no data loss will occur. In order to reconnect, you have to close the project and go back to the server page of the welcome screen.