IntegraXor has been carefully designed so its project folder is fully portable just like a web site project folder that can be placed anywhere in the system, so long engineer avoid using fixed or absolute file path in the project development. Instead, engineer shall use relative file path to ease any future maintenance work. Backing up or restoring the project is a matter of copying the folder to the desired destination, engineer is encourange to use compressing for ease of maintenance although an average project folder with thousand tags won't be big as compare to many other HMI/SCADA systems. However, be aware that the default project Access database is stored within the project folder which can contribute significant file size while archiving project.

The default installation creates one main directory "ecava" at "c:\Program Files", and "My Documents\My Projects" for project creation.

Windows Explorer can be launched from within File View pane by right clicking on the desired folder.

When a web page code is updated, engineer only needs to click Refresh button or pressing F5 as shortcut. No restarting of server is needed. Since all project files are stored at server side, managing and updating of the project is centralized at server side, regardless how far the client system is. No work is needed at client side except refreshing the web page. And they are fully secured since no file is accessible at client side.

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It's pretty common that a project need to be compressed and send as email attachment. However it's not quite possible if the project contain any *.exe or *.js files as it may be blocked by many types of mail server. The best practice is to add a disabled extension to the exiting file. For instance, project.zip shall be renamed to project.zip.dsb. Likewise, the email recipient shall remove the *.dsb before the received attachment is used.