With 4.0.0Beta2, ModeShape Tools provided the user a way to type in the workspace area they want the publishing operation to pertain to. The workspace area is basically a root path segment in the ModeShape workspace where files will be published to or unpublished from. The workspace area is prepended to the file's project path to determine the full ModeShape workspace path. A recent change to ModeShape makes available the workspace areas where published files will be sequenced.

One way to make these workspace areas available to the user would be for the publishing wizard to add a ComboBox containing those workspace areas. The wizard should remember the last used area for each workspace the user had previously published to. One unknown would be if the user should be allowed to use a workspace area that has not been designated as a publishing area.