Can I import project templates from previous projects?

Yes. To preserve graphs and dashboards from previous projects, you can use Import from Project from the File menu. To do this, have open the project you’re working on (where you want to make the new visualisations), then select Import from Project from the File menu and choose the project that has the dashboard or visualisations you want to replicate. You’ll get a window like the screenshot below where you can select items to import from your existing project.

Screenshot from StarDrop showing how to import a profile

A note about importing plots and dashboards: if your column names don’t match exactly in both projects, the plots and dashboard initially come over empty; if you use the pull-down menu on the chart axis to select the column containing your data, the plot will immediately populate with all the settings (colouring, formatting, filtering,etc.) that were set from your previous project.

Another way to do this is to save a copy of the project file that has the R-group analysis and visualisation settings you want to use (perhaps give this a name like “template”).

Then, open your template project file and delete all the rows of data from the data table (you can select all the rows in the table using Ctrl + A).

Next, open the new data set you want to use (you’ll need to have it saved as a data set using StarDrop’s .add format or other data set formats like .sdf or .csv).

This will open a second data set tab in your template project. Select all the rows in your new data set, then copy and paste them into the empty data set (the one where you just deleted all the rows).

Any compounds that match the existing R-group analysis will be automatically processed to show the associated R-groups. You might need to re-run any models or scoring profiles after you paste the new data into your project

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