Performing Projects, Trees, and Activities

You can trigger the performance of an activity (also called a job) and all the activities below it in the same tree in either the Project or Configuration window. In the Project window you can also perform a single activity without performing its successors or perform the whole project (all the activity trees).

In the Configuration window, click Perform Tree to perform the currently selected activity and all the activities below it. If there are no activities below the selected activity, then the button says Perform instead.

All activities that must be completed as prerequisites are automatically performed first. For example, if you Perform Tree for a Plot Renderer, then the predecessors, Equilibrium Calculator and System Definer, are automatically performed before the Plot Renderer.

In the Project window, you can do any of the following:

• Perform an activity: Right-click the activity and select Perform Now, or Perform Later and schedule a time to perform the activity
• Perform an activity and all activities below it in the tree: Right-click any node in the tree and select Perform Tree Now. Or select Perform Tree Later and schedule a time for all activities in the tree to be performed
• Perform a project: Right-click My Project and select Perform Now or Perform Later and schedule a time to perform all project activities in the tree

If there is an error during the performance of an activity, icons display status markers, which are described in Node or Window Status Markers.