The editor area

An editor opens in a separate tab group called the editor area positioned to the right of the tabular views. The editor area shares many features with the other tab groups, but does have some limitations which are identified later in this topic.

You open an editor from a resource definition view by right-clicking a resource and then clicking Open. The editor area is shown in the image below containing the editor, which is the active view.

A partial screen capture of the Workbench showing the editor area and the Pipeline editor positioned to the right of the tabular views

You can minimize, maximize, or resize the editor area, but there are some limitations on moving the editor area and editor.

You change the size of the editor area in the same way that you size the other tab groups, but the editor area cannot be moved in the same way as the other tab groups. To reposition the editor area in the Workbench, you must move the other tab groups around the editor area. For example, to reposition the editor area more to the middle of the workbench, drag the tabular views tab group and drop it at the right side of the editor group as shown in the example below.

A partial screen capture of the Workbench showing the tabular views positioned to the right of the Pipeline Definition editor, which has the effect of moving the editor more to the middle of the workbench

If you open more than one instance of the editor, you can move the views around in the editor area; for example, you can position them one above the other, or side by side as shown in the image below, but you cannot move the editor instances into a different tab group.

A screen capture showing two Pipeline Definition editor instances side by side in the editor area

If you reset the perspective, the perspective is restored to the default layout, however any open editors are not changed and remain in the workbench. Similarly, if you change to another perspective, any open editors will remain visible in the new perspective.