Working with Projects

Project Directory Structure

For each project, Enterprise Miner dynamically creates a number of subdirectories that have the following structure:

[Display showing example of Project Navigator contents, showing Project Folders and Subfolders for projects]

Note: To view your project files in a Windows file browser, select the Diagrams tab of the Enterprise Miner Project Navigator, right-click a named project icon, and then select Explore. [cautionend]

When you create a project, Enterprise Miner automatically assigns the EMDATA and EMPROJ librefs to the EMDATA and EMPROJ subdirectories, respectively. Enterprise Miner uses a standard directory structure and stores a given project's files in the root of the project directory. This enables you to back up or copy Enterprise Miner projects simply by placing a copy of the project directory and its subdirectories in the new location. Enterprise Miner does not limit the number of projects. There is a limit of 100,000 diagrams per project.

Project Location

The project location directory contains the .dmp file that corresponds to the project definition, and the various .dmd files which represent the various diagrams that were created within the project. The name of the .dmp file defines the name of the project.

The following display shows the directory layout for a project named Phoenix.

[directory layout for a project named Phoenix that contains a diagram named My diagram.dmd]

This project contains a diagram named My diagram.dmd.

EMDATA Directory

The EMDATA directory contains potentially large files that are created when you run the process flows in your project. When you are running a project in client/server mode, files are written to the server data directory instead. However, samples taken from the remote location are stored in your EMDATA directory so you can continue to work when a connection to the server is unavailable.

EMPROJ Directory

Project files that contain information for each diagram and its nodes, the target profiler, and various registries are stored in the EMPROJ directory. Diagram lock (.lck) files are also placed in the EMPROJ directory every time a diagram is opened. This prevents two users from opening the same diagram at the same time. The name of the lock file is always identical to the name of the diagram in question, except for the .lck extension. For example, a diagram file that is named My diagram.dmd has a corresponding My diagram.lck lock file.

The USERS subdirectory contains files that represent the users currently sharing the project.

REPORTS Directory

HTML reports generated by the Reporter node are stored in this directory. Each report has its own subdirectory. The name of the subdirectory defines the name of the report.

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