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Importing Snippets

You can create new snippets (FLSNP files) within your project. But if you already have created snippets in another project and want to reuse them in your current project, you can import those snippets.

How to import a snippet

Select Project>Add Snippet.

The Add New Snippet dialog opens.
Next to the Source File field, click .
Find and select the snippet file that you want to import.
Click Open.

The Source File field now contains the path to the file that you are importing. Also, the name of the file is displayed in the File Name field.
In the Folder field select a location to store the snippet in the project.
If you want to give the snippet a different name than that for the imported file, click in the File name field and replace the text.
Click Add.

The Copy to Project dialog opens, displaying information about the file that will be copied to the project. Also, if that file contains links to other files, they will also be listed (and therefore copied).
Click OK.

The snippet is added to the Resources\Snippets folder in the Content Explorer and opens in its own page in the XML Editor.

Note: In addition to importing single files from another location (which this topic discusses), you can import linked files from a Flare source project using a featured called "Global Project Linking." This is different than a simple import process, because in this case, the imported files remain linked to the source project. This allows you to make future updates to those files in just one place—in the source project file. When you perform ongoing imports using your previous settings, Flare recognizes changes to the source files. Therefore, the new files can be brought over, replacing the outdated files. See Global Project Linking—Importing Files from Other Projects.