If you do not want to lose your work, you must save your
newly created diagram.
To save the diagram initially:
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Enter a file name in the file chooser.
After saving the first time, if you make further changes,
you can click File > Save or
Ctrl+S to save again.
When you save your work, the Designer saves three files:
a project file, a
style sheet, and a data file.
The following example shows a project file for an XML
data source.
A JViews Diagrammer project file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE diagrammer>
<diagrammer style="genealogy.css">
<dataource class="ilog.views.diagrammer.datasource.IlvXMLDataSource" url="genealogy.xml" />
</diagrammer>
The project file specifies the name of the style sheet
file, the type and parameters of the data source, and the name of
the data file. You can see that this project file is for the genealogy
example.
If you try to open a project file while its style sheet
or data file are missing, you get an explicit error message prompting
you to specify the location of the missing files. Keep in mind that
the three files must be kept together.