Project Manager Classic View

The classic Project Manager shows corpus folders on the left and sessions in the selected corpus on the right. It remains available alongside the Project Tree. Use the view-switch button at the top right; Phon remembers the selected project view.

The header shows the project name, project folder, and project media folders. Select a path to open it in the operating system file browser. Status text at the bottom reports background refresh and session-opening work.

Figure 1. Project Manager — Classic View
Project Manager — Classic View

Work with corpora and sessions

Select a corpus to populate the Session list. A session can also live directly in the project folder; those sessions appear under the project root corpus.

The plus buttons reveal inline controls for creating a corpus or session. The title menus, context menus, and Project menu provide duplicate, rename, delete, and session-template actions. See Corpora and Sessions for those operations.

Double-click a session or press Enter to open it. Enable Blind mode to make the default open action select a blind transcriber. The session context menu always provides both normal and blind-mode open commands, plus Manage backups.

You can drag corpora and sessions to copy or reorganize project data. Use Phon's commands for these changes so project metadata and open windows remain consistent.

Project storage and media

A project is a directory containing a .phonproj metadata file, corpus folders, and XML session files. Internal resources such as dictionaries, media, scripts, queries, and analyses are stored below __res. A corpus session template is stored as __sessiontemplate.xml.

Phon searches for session media in this order:

  1. the corpus media folder;
  2. the project's media folders;
  3. global media folders configured in Preferences.

Use the Project menu to add a media folder. Each listed folder has actions to show it in the file browser or remove it from the search path; the project's resource media folder cannot be removed.

Project commands

The Project menu also renames or refreshes the project and opens the workflows for checking sessions, anonymizing participant information, publishing, deriving a session, and team/Git operations. See Project Workflows.

CSV import and export commands are on the Tools menu. See Import and Export CSV Files.