Common steps for adding projects to an application

About this task

The steps in this topic direct you to complete all pages in the New Project Wizard (or New Application Wizard, if you are creating the project in it). However, some of the pages in the wizard are optional (required settings are complete when the Finish button is activated). Settings made in the wizard can be modified after project creation in the Properties view for a selected project. If you complete the New Project Wizard without completing optional pages, you can change the settings from those pages later on in the Properties view.

The steps in this topic direct you to complete all pages in the New Project Wizard (or New Application Wizard, if you are creating the project in it). Settings made in the wizard can be modified after project creation in the Properties view for a selected project.

Note: For Classic ASP, only ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe), UTF-8, and UTF-16 character sets are supported.

Procedure

  1. In the Explorer view, select the application that you want to add the project to (if you have not already added an application, see Configuring applications).
  2. Complete one of the following actions:
    1. Select File > Add Project > New Project from the main menu bar.
    2. Right-click the selected application and choose Add Project > New Project from the menu.
  3. In the Project Sources wizard page:
    1. Identify the project sources. Project sources consist of the directories in which you find project files, and any additional individual files to include in the project.

      Name the project and specify the working directory. The Working Directory is the location in which the AppScan® Source project file (.ppf) will reside. It is also the base for all relative paths.

    2. Select Enable secrets for scanner to invoke scanning for secrets along with other relevant scanners.
      When invoked, the engine checks for hardcoded passwords, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers (SSN) when those secrets are detected in the code being scanned.
    3. Click Add Source Root to specify a source code root and the directories or files to include or exclude from the scan.
      After adding the source root, you can exclude certain directories or files from it. To do this, select the directory or file (or multiselect these items) in the source root, right-click the selection, and then choose Exclude from the menu. If you include or exclude files, the icon to the left of the file name changes.
  4. Click Next to advance to the next wizard page.
  5. Click Finish.