Manipulating Documents

Last modified: March 19, 2025

The topic describes how to manipulate documents in dbForge Studio.

Managing Documents

The Windows Dialog Box allows you to switch between documents and manage them. To open it, select Windows on the Window menu. This dialog allows you to save and close multiple documents at once, and activate a required document.

To save a document, select the required document and click Save.

To close one or more documents, select the required documents and click Close Window(s).

Note

To close an opened document, click the document title with middle mouse button (mouse wheel).

To activate a required document, select the document and click Activate.

Navigating Through Document Views

Each SQL document includes different representations of the content—document views.

The current and other available views are shown on the bottom pane of the document. To add a view to the pane, click Open document view (the plus icon) and select the required view from the list.

You can change a view as follows:

• To switch to a specific view, click the view name.
• To cycle through available views, press the F7 key.

Note

You can change the shortcut for cycling through available document views.

1. Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard.

2. In the Show commands containing field, enter Window.NextDocView.

3. Click inside the Press shortcut keys field, press the desired keys on your keyboard, and click Assign.

Working with Document Tab Groups

Multiple documents can be organized into horizontal or vertical tab groups for organizing a workspace for working with several documents at the same time. New document tab group can be created either by dragging document to the required place or by selecting New Horizontal Tab Group or New Vertical Tab Group on the document header shortcut menu.

Documents can be moved between tab groups by dragging-n-dropping or by selecting a required command on the shortcut menu.

Restoring Tabs

Starting from dbForge Studio for MySQL v6.2, the restoring of open tabs has been enabled. If you accidentally close the application or it stops responding and closes, document tabs will be saved to cash and restored when you open dbForge Studio again.

To customize the restore options, go to Tools > Options > Environment > Documents > Restore and adjust the settings:

• General—The time interval at which the restore information is saved automatically.
• Restorable File Types—The types of files to be saved and restored.

Document Header Shortcut Menu

The document header shortcut menu includes the following options:

• Save <Name>.sql—Saves a current SQL document.
• Close—Closes a current document.
• Close All But This—Closes all documents excepting the selected one.
• Copy Full Path—Copies the full path for the document.
• Open Containing Folder—Opens the folder containing the document.
• Float—Detaches the window.
• New Horizontal Tab Group—Creates new horizontal tab group.
• New Vertical Tab Group—Creates new vertical tab group.