5.8. Working with multiple data files

This section shows an example of working with two data files at the same time.

We start with a data file. Note the file name, "test.fwb", is shown in the main window title bar.

Use File/Open to open another data file.

Here we see file "1.fwb" opened in the GUI. Its name is now shown in the title bar of the window.

The Window menu supports the usual windows operations: you can maximize and minimize them, as well as cascade or tile them and switch from one to another.

Here we have both windows shown. The size of the main windows was rather small to keep the size of the screen shots down, so two windows do not fit well. However even with such a cramped layout we can move objects from one to another using copy/paste or drag-and-drop operations. In this example we are going to drag firewall object "test" from the top window to the bottom one. We are going to drop it onto the folder "Firewalls" in the tree.

The same result can be achieved using copy/paste operation.

Here we maximized the window showing data file "1.fwb"; note that firewall object "test" is part of the tree.

Firewall "test" used a network IPv6 object created in the data file "test.fwb". Copying the firewall object "test" also copied all other objects it depended on. This image shows that network "local ipv6 net" is now part of the data file "1.fwb".