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Managing Workspaces
5:34Treehouse students can create up to 100 Workspaces, so it's important to learn how to manage Workspaces. Each Workspace can be renamed, forked, or deleted.
We've learned a lot about working
with individual workspaces.
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But when you're taking courses on
TreeHouse or practicing on your own,
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you'll create lots of workspaces, and it's
important to learn how to manage them all.
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So let's take a look.
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From anywhere on TreeHouse you can
go to the menu on the left, and
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click on Workspaces, and
you'll see a screen that looks like this.
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This is a list of all the workspaces
that I've created, whether it's for
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practicing on my own, or for following
along with the course on TreeHouse.
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For each listing,
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you'll see the title of the workspace,
along with where it was started from.
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So this was started from
just a blank workspace.
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This one was started from a template.
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And this one was started from a course,
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you can also see what
type of work space it is.
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So these are front end workspaces but
this one I'm using Python,
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on the right we have a few
more controls for forking and
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renaming workspaces so
we'll take a look at those in a moment.
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But first let's look at
this bar across the top.
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I have a lot of workspaces and
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sometimes it could be difficult to
find the one that I'm looking for.
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So, I can use the search here,
and let's say for example,
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that I wanted to see all of the workspaces
that have the word CSS In the title.
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So now I've found all the workspaces
that have CSS in the title or
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in where they were forked from or
where they were started from.
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So let's remove that search.
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In addition, you can also filter, so
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right now I'm sorting by whatever the
latest workspaces are that I've created.
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But you can also sort by name.
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If I just want to see the Python
workspaces I've created, or
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the front end work spaces I've created,
I can filter by the environment.
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So there's the only Python
workspace I've created.
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There's all of the front end workspaces,
but
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I just want to look at all environments.
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You can also filter by the courses or
workshops that you've taken on TreeHouse.
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So, for example, I have several workspaces
that I've made associated with the course,
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how to make a website, or HTML Forms or
Ruby Basics, and you can easily
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find workspaces associated with courses or
workshops by filtering this way.
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From this interface, you can also create
new workspaces by clicking the new button
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on the left, and you'll be presented with
this dialogue box that says New Workspace.
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And you can type in the title for
your workspace,
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such as My Workspace or Example Workspace.
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And then you can choose the environment,
such as Front End,
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and then you can choose
a template to start from, or
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you can start from one of
your existing work spaces.
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Then you can click Create Workspace and
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workspaces will automatically open
your newly created workspace.
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But for now, I'm going to close this and
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as you can see it's now listed as
one of my available workspaces.
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Your TreeHouse account will be
limited to 100 workspaces and
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as you create new workspaces,
this progress bar will fill up.
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So that you know how many
you have available to you.
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If you want to rename a workspace or
delete a workspace,
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you can click the gear icon next to
the workspace that you want to change.
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This will bring up the workspace
settings window and
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here I've called this Example Workspace.
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I'll type, Another Workspace,
and choose Update Workspace.
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And now it will be renamed, however,
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I'd like to just delete this workspace for
now.
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So I'll click the Workspace Settings
button and then choose Delete Workspace.
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A confirmation dialogue box will come
up to let you know that this will
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permanently delete the workspace and
it cannot be undone, but
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I'll click OK, and
now that workspace is deleted.
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Finally you can also fork a workspace.
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So for example,
if I were working on this website and
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maybe I wanted to try out
a different version of something or
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do something experimental,
I could click the fork button to create
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a copy of this workspace, and
I'll call this, Experimental.
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And then click Fork Workspace, and
as soon as I do that, it will open up
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the newly forked workspace and
allow me to make my changes.
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This is great if you want to try out
something where you're not sure if it's
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gonna work or if you just want to make
a copy of a workspace as a starting point.
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If I close this workspace you can
see that the forked version now
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appears in my list of workspaces,
and it will say that it was
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forked from the Nick Pettit Website
workspace, which you can see right here.
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