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Expert Editor is your basic admin tool in xorlab Control Center (XCC). This tool allows configuring and tweaking your XSP instance by editing configuration files. It not only opens the files for editing, but also provides basic file and folder operations, such as creating a new file/folder, or renaming, moving, and deleting existing files and folders.

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Accessing Expert Editor

  1. Log in to the Control Center GUI with the URL address and credentials provided by xorlab.
  2. On the main screen, click the tiles icon next to your account name and click the Admin icon in the displayed menu: Selecting the Admin panel
  3. On the resulting Admin page, click the Expert tile: Selecting the Expert Editor
This opens Expert Editor and you can see the folder tree: Expert Editor

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Using Expert Editor

You can expand folders to navigate to the desired file or simply search for a file in the Search box. When you click the file, its content is displayed in the right pane, ready for editing. All the changes you make are automatically saved, so you don’t have to worry about it. But these saved changes will not be deployed (in other words, will not have any effect) until you click the blue PUBLISH button. And until then, you can quickly discard your edits and revert to the original file by clicking the good old UNDO button.

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Context menu: file/folder operations

Expert Editor is not limited to editing only. Basic file and folder operations are available in the context menu:
  1. Hover the mouse cursor over a folder or file icon. The icon will change to a vertical ellipsis (…) or a hamburger: Hamburger icon for the context menu
  2. Click it to display the context menu. In the case of a folder, you can rename, delete, or move it, and add a new file/folder inside of it. In the case of a file, you can just rename, delete, or move it. Context menu for a folder
  3. If you choose to rename or add a folder/file, a dialog box for entering a name appears. When you’re done, click Rename or Create, respectively. If you choose to move the file, you will be asked to select the target location in the resulting dialog box. Click to select the parent folder and click Move. New Folder name dialog box Move File dialog box

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Commenting/uncommenting code

Expert Editor supports a common keyboard shortcut for commenting/uncommenting multiple lines of code. Just select the code to comment out or uncomment and press Ctrl+/ (Cmd+/ on macOS).
This shortcut works on lines of code only. It will not work if the selected block includes actual comments.