This article deals with Tibco BusinesssWorks and Tibco Designer version up to and including 5.6.

Tibco BusinessWorks projects can be opened with Tibco Designer. The Tibco Designer window frame shows the folder name of the project as "Tibco Designer - ProjectName" in the upper left corner.

When you have multiple BusinessWorks projects open in Designer you want to tell which project belongs to which Designer window. The easiest way to tell is by looking at the text at in the Designer window's upper left corner. This means that each BusinessWorks project should have a different folder name and that each folder name should tell us something about the BW project inside. In addition you should not create different BW projects with the same folder name.

A BusinessWorks project consists of processes that can be opened inside Designer but also usually of other items, such as sql code, java code, build scripts, etc. This brings us to the folder structure of a BusinessWorks project. Suppose we have a BusinessWorks project "Create Account". Then the root folder can be named "CreateAccount". Inside the directory "CreateAccount" we can have the following directories: java, sql, build, CreateAccount. Inside the second CreateAccount directory we put the BusinessWorks code to be opened inside Designer. In the Designer upper left corner the following text appears: "Tibco Designer - CreateAccount". The path of the code to be opened in Designer is now "CreateAccount/CreateAccount".

Note that I never put spaces inside directory names.

Occasionally I see people storing the code of a BusinessWorks project in a directory with a less meaningful name such as "CreateAccount/src" or CreateAccount/designer". In that case the following text appears in the Designer upper left corner: "Tibco Designer - src". If you still want to use such a directory name then it is better to put a directory "CreateAccount" inside it and use this directory to store the BusinessWorks code. In that case the path of the code opened in Designer is "CreateAccount/src/CreateAccount". In the Designer upper left corner appears "Tibco Designer - CreateAccount".