Create a project

A project holds everything an operator sees: its screens, and the bindings that connect them to tags. Tags themselves belong to Nexus, not to a project, so several projects can share them.

Connect Studio to Nexus

Start Studio. It opens on Studio Home, which has a card for each Nexus instance it knows about. A new Studio already has one card, Local Dev, pointing at localhost:8443: a Nexus on the same machine.

Studio Home with one gateway card. Yours is named Local Dev; this one is named Riverbend Gateway.

If Nexus runs on this machine, click Launch on Local Dev.

If Nexus runs somewhere else, click Add a gateway, enter its Host, leave Port at 8443, click Verify connection →, give it a Name, and leave Project blank. The full procedure is in Connecting Studio to Nexus.

Then:

1. Sign in with your administrator account and click Connect →.
2. Studio shows the certificate Nexus presented. On a new Nexus this is a self-signed certificate. Nexus prints its fingerprint in its startup log (HTTPS certificate SHA-256 fingerprint: …); check that it matches, then click Trust & Connect. Studio remembers it.

Create the project

A Nexus with no projects yet shows three ways to start straight after you sign in: a Raylux template, your company's template, or a blank canvas.

1. Choose Blank canvas. Studio shows the New project form.
2. Enter a Name of Tutorial.
3. Leave Description empty and Start from at Blank canvas.
4. Click Create project.

New project, after choosing Blank canvas.

Studio opens on the new project. It has no views yet.

On a Nexus that already has projects, Studio Home lists them instead; use + New project under the list, or, once Studio is open, File > New project… (Ctrl+Shift+N).

Project names

Names must be unique on a Nexus — Studio refuses a name that is already taken. A short name without spaces, like Tutorial, also keeps the address operators open in their browser tidy.

The Studio window

Studio on a new, empty project.

These parts matter for this tutorial:

Where	What it is for
Views tab, top left	The project's views.
Tags tab, beside it	Nexus's tags: create and edit them here.
Properties tab, bottom right	The selected component's settings and bindings.
Components tab, beside it	The palette of components you add to a view.