How do I share or re-use a Workbench perspective?

Nico Chart_21517
Nico Chart_21517
Altair Employee
edited October 15 in Altair RapidMiner

Altair Analytics Workbench is essentially a plugin to the Eclipse IDE framework and each workspace has a special metadata folder to store all your preferences and configuration data related to that workspace. You can probably find references in google describing possible ways of re-using perspectives that you prefer.
The Workbench perspective is called 'SAS Language (default)'. If you have customized the layout of the Workbench perspective by moving panes around and simplifying the presentation then one possibility is to save your perspective using the 'Save Perspective As..' feature into something of the form 'SLE (global)'.
After that simply export your preferences using File->Export->General->Preferences into a <filename>.epf file and then when you start Workbench in another workspace import the preferences from that file using File->Import->General->Preferences and you should now be able to select the layout in 'SLE (global)' rather than 'SAS Language (default)'.