This section focuses on commonly used XMIM file administration functions.
The first time you save your query; you must give it a name and assign it to a location on your drive. Anytime you save a query onto the hard disk of your system, it ends up in a folder (referred to as directories) on your hard disk. Folders are analogous to the file drawers and file folders you use in your office to help you organize and locate your paper files. You can locate files (referred to as queries) more easily if you store related files together in a folder. For example, you could store all queries that relate to research on economic releases in a folder named economic_releases.
The first time you save a query, you must assign it a file name
and decide in which folder you want to store it. To save a query simply
select the Save 
icon from the toolbar or select File> Save
from the menu bar. Upon selection, a Save window will appear.
After you have saved a file for the first time, you can save it again with the same file name, or you can save it as a new file with a different file name by selecting File>Save As from the menu bar.
To retrieve your saved query, select either the Open 
icon from the toolbar or select File>Open from the menu bar. Upon selection,
an Open window will appear.
In order to start building a new query, it is necessary to select
the New Query 
icon from the toolbar or select File>New from the menu bar.
There are a few additional functions that might be helpful to use while making your edits which are listed below.
You can undo and redo your query entries in the Edit window for XMIM. Use the Undo/Redo commands in the Edit menu or use the key combinations Ctrl+Z to undo an entry and Ctrl+Y to redo an entry. Works character by character or if you delete a whole line you can undo the delete.
XMIM provides certain familiar editing tools to refashion your
query. These editing tools, may be selected either in the toolbar
(
)or under the Edit menu.
You can comment out entries in your query. In the Edit window click in the text that you want to comment out then select Edit># Toggle Comment from the menu bar or right-click and select # Toggle Comment. A # is placed in front of the text and the line will be commented out (ignored). You can also use the short-cut key Ctrl+K to comment out text. These same methods will also remove the comments.
Select Edit>Replace from the menu bar to open the Replace window where you can find and replace values. Enter the value you want to find and replace in the Replace field. Enter the value you want to put in its place in the With field.
Select the Check
icon from the toolbar or select Edit> Check
from menu bar to perform a check on the syntax of the query.
Temporary versions of query edits are saved in the View Local History Revisions window accessible from Tools>Local History in the XMIM menu bar.
Here's how it works. Make changes to your query then process the query by running a Report or Chart. At this point, a temporary version is saved in the Local History window. To view the temporary saved versions, select Tools>Local History from the XMIM menu bar. In the View Local History Revisions window select a query using the date and time stamp. View the contents of the query in the Revision Content pane. When you find the query version you want, select the Restore button to restore the query in the XMIM Edit window.
 | See the section called “Local History Revisions Pane” for details on specifying the size of the local history directory. You can specify how large the local history directory can get before files are removed from the directory. |