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Desktop provides a convenient user interface, displaying configurations in full view and , tools, and inspectors, having different options available for user interactionthe different views.

Desktop window

The Desktop window is organized into two main sections:

  • The left toolbar of the Desktop window is the menu pane. From here the main tools and options can be expandedTo the left you have the Standard Desktop Buttons, which allows you to expand lists of configurations, tools, and other options, see the section Standard Desktop Buttons and Options below for more information. 
  • The main view displays the selected tools and opened configurations in a tabbed arrangement. 

  • For information on how to create a new Configuration, and how to open an Inspector or a Tool, refer to the section below, Desktop Standard Buttons.

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Standard Desktop Buttons and Options

The Desktop user interface includes the following standard features:

FeatureDescription
Desktop Buttons

 Browser - Click on this button to open the Browser where you can see all available configurations and their properties.

 Configuration - Click on this button to open a list of available configuration types to create a new configuration.

 Inspection - Click on this button to open a list of available inspectors, see Inspection for more information.

 Tools - Click on this button to open a list of available tools, see 6. Tools for more information

 Open tabsTabs - Click on this to open a list of all open tabs, which may be useful if you have many tabs open.

 Change passwordPassword - Click on this button to open the Change Password dialog where you can change your user password, see .

 Documentation - Click on this button to open the user documentation.

 Status - Click on this button to open a list of status messages along with version information.

 Exit - Click on this button to exit the Legacy Desktop.

Tab Right-Click Menu

There are different closing options available for a tab and these are selected from a right-click menu. See the section below, Tab Right-Click Menu, for more information.

 

The tab right-click menu

Close - Select this option to close the selected tab.

Close Other - Select this option to close all other tabs in the Desktop window.

Close All - Select this option to close all tabs in the Desktop window.

Tab Button Panel

The button panel is visible at the top of a tab. It is dynamic and changes according to the type of Configuration, Inspector or Tool that has been opened in the currently displayed tab. For a description of the specific buttons, refer to Build View, Inspection, and 6. Tools.

The following figure shows the button panel visible for a workflow configuration.

The tab button panel for a workflow configuration

Tabs

Configurations and tools are opened in separate tabs, in the right part of the Desktop window. However, dialogs that are opened from a tool or configurationright-click menu options, e g an Agent Configuration dialog or the MIM Browser or UDR Browser, will be opened in a dialog box and not in another tab.

Click this button and a menu will open, on the Open Tabs button to display a list containing all the currently opened tabs.

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Open Tabs List dialog

When exiting Desktop, all tabs will be closed, and they will not be remembered and restored next time you login unless you have set the property mz.gui.restart.tabs to true. For further information, see Desktop Properties for more information.

To reorder the tabs, click a tab and drag it to a different position along the top of the window.

To move a tab to a separate Desktop window, click it and then drag it outside the current window. This can be useful when running and analyzing several workflows in the Workflow Monitor, to be able to view the monitors side by side. If there is only one tab open in the Desktop and the tab is moved to a separate window, the original Desktop window will be closed. A Tool, Inspector, or Configuration can only be open in one tab at a time.

It is possible to move tabs between several Desktop windows.

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