Home Screen & Projects

This page documents the desktop launcher and local project behavior.

Home screen entries

The desktop app starts on a launcher-style home screen with the dAIve logo and six action cards.

Available entries:

• New Project
• Open Project
• Only Prediction
• Only Training
• PDF Manual
• Youtube Tutorial

These entries are the main desktop starting points. There is no separate cloud project dashboard like in the web app.

New Project

New Project opens a save dialog for a .dvp file path.

The dialog title reads "Choose location and name of the new project" and filters for dAIve Project (*.dvp).

After the path is chosen, dAIve:

• creates the project directory
• saves the initial project settings
• opens Step 1: Training Data Import

This is the standard entry point when you want a full local project from scratch.

Open Project

Open Project opens a file dialog to select an existing .dvp file.

The dialog filters for dAIve Project (*.dvp) and All Files (*.*).

After opening, dAIve restores the saved state and navigates to the step that was active when the project was last saved.

You can also open .dvp files by double-clicking them in the file explorer (if file associations are set up).

Only Prediction

Creates a project shell that starts directly in Step 6: Prediction.

Steps 1–5 are disabled. Only the prediction step is active.

Use it when you already have a trained .dvm file and only want inference.

This path avoids reopening or rebuilding a full training project when only prediction is needed.

You can also launch prediction-only mode by opening a .dvm file directly from the command line or file explorer.

Only Training

Creates a project shell for the training workflow and opens Step 1: Training Data Import.

Use it when you want to move directly into data import and model creation without opening an older project first.

Application menu

The desktop app has a top-level application menu with several important actions.

Project menu

• Save project — saves the current project to its .dvp file
• Save project as... — opens a save dialog to save a copy under a new name
• Close project — prompts to save unsaved changes before closing (Save and close / Discard and close / Cancel)
• Exit — quits the application

Settings menu

• Backend — opens a configuration window for the API URL, with a connection test
• Proxy — opens a proxy configuration window

Data menu

• Clear Invalid Data — deletes generated artifacts (models, predictions, analysis results) and resets steps 4–6 to their initial state

Help menu

• PDF Manual — opens the documentation folder
• Youtube Tutorial — opens the tutorial video in a browser
• About dAIve — shows version information

Workflow navigation

Once inside a project, the app shows:

• a stepper at the top with 6 steps (or fewer in training-only / prediction-only mode)
• a bottom navigation bar with Previous, step tabs, and Next

Stepper steps

Step	Name
1	Training Data Import
2	Training Data Description
3	Model Design
4	Model Training
5	Training Data Assessment
6	Prediction

Steps show visual state indicators:

• completed steps have a highlighted icon
• the current step is visually prominent with a colored background
• upcoming steps are grayed out and may be locked until prerequisites are met
• steps with stale data show a yellow warning badge with a tooltip explaining the invalidation

Bottom navigation

• Previous moves one step back (on Step 1 it becomes Save & Close Project)
• Next moves one step forward (on the last step it becomes Save & Close Project)
• step number tabs in the center allow direct navigation to any enabled step

For demo projects, the close action reads Close Demo Project instead.

Step prerequisites

Steps unlock based on progress:

• Step 2 requires at least one input and one output selected in Step 1
• Step 3 is always available after Step 2
• Step 4 requires a model task to be configured in Step 3
• Step 5 requires a trained model from Step 4
• Step 6 requires a trained model (unless in prediction-only mode)