# Displaying the Project View [edit]

This page explains what the Project View in Aptana is and how to display it.

## Introduction

The Project View is a tree view of all of the projects and associated files in your workspace. You can expand and collapse the folders in this view to make it easier to access your files for editing.

You can collapse all open folders into the top-level folder by clicking the Collapse All button .

## Instructions

To display the Project View:

- From the Window menu, select Show View > Project .
- To display the contents of a single folder, right-click the folder and select Go Into from the context menu. To display all folders again, click the Back button at the top of the Project View.
- To close the Project View, click the Close button (X) in the upper right of the tab.

Aptana displays the Project View as a tab on the left part of your screen, as shown in the image below.

You can create a filter to display only a subset of your projects by creating a "working set" of projects. See Creating a working set of projects for more information.

## Projects, Project Explorer, Navigator Views

There are a few similiar views for projects, here are the differences:

- The Project Explorer view is the simplest view of projects where navigator and project allow you to drill down into a project or folder via the buttons on the toolbar.
- The Projects view is a view we created that extends the Navigator view but integrates better in Aptana Studio such as allows custom background and foreground settings and adds listeners when you delete a project so that you can also delete any run configurations you have associated with that project.

## Related Topics

- About Eclipse Views
- Displaying Aptana Views
- Displaying the Bookmarks View
- Displaying the File View
- Displaying the Outline View
- Displaying the Tasks View
- Displaying the Walkthroughs View
- Navigating open files with Next Editor or Previous Editor
- Setting up your web browser configuration
- Creating a working set of projects

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